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[–] revs@feddit.uk 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] asleepinpairee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] revs@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] shashi154263@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.

That's exactly why I want. It runs pretty smooth anyway, so it's not really a problem that it's a webapp.

[–] revs@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed! It’s made me realise how good webapps can be