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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Writing a native app, and not just a web wrapper, is a different skillset to writing a PWA. It’s not a quick conversion, it’s a whole new app from scratch and everything would be rewritten.
This is a superb PWA, and web apps will get better in each iOS release.
There are plenty of native apps to choose from if you want one.
Actually, as I understand it, wefwef is built using the Ionic framework, which has a really handy tool called Capacitor that lets you port over a web app to native really easily. It’s pretty neat!
https://ionicframework.com/docs/native
Edit: more info https://capacitorjs.com/
That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.
It doesn’t make a webapp a “native” app. It would still be exactly the same web based technologies - still a very fancy website. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. As wefwef is amazing
That's exactly why I want. It runs pretty smooth anyway, so it's not really a problem that it's a webapp.
Agreed! It’s made me realise how good webapps can be