Why install a native app to use devrant on a mobile phone? Your website is not totally broken in a mobile browser. Responsive web is possible in 2020, believe me and give it a try!

No.

@F1973 Why that app crap instead of just using web tech properly?

Worst of all, not allowing the community to make it happen

Why don't you have anything to drink? Choose one making you better feeling!

@Jilano what does a true browser app to do with electron?

We already have an electron based desktop app. And... might I add... it’s better than the web version.

Real talk: because PWAs are actually shit, and getting the code into its own isolated process has some merit.

The founders want to have mobile app, I agree that a web app can be as good, it's just their personal taste.

Take a look at this

https://devrant.com/rants/3220798/...

@SortOfTested the source of truth have spoken. Oracle granted us her wisdom.
Amen!

I'd argue the opposite: Why ever use generic web technology, when there is a native app.

I feel the same about PC desktop applications: Native binaries tend to run more efficient, integrate more nicely, and in some cases also provide additional benefits when it comes to internet connection interruptions and data ownership.

Native mobile apps tend to be more data efficient as well, as all the assets are installed/updated over WiFi and information is retrieved as leaner API calls. While browsers do cache images and styling in a best case scenario, that's not a guarantee and you don't have much control over cache refreshes happening over a metered 4G connection.

Then there's the fact that both Swift and Kotlin are vastly superior languages compared to Javascript, which tends to lead to a more polished, less buggy experien... wait... no, let's not go there, I think I might have already angered enough web kids today.

Sadly a lot of the benefits of native applications are diminished because they are still just wrapped websites.

You know what pisses me off?

The company I work for has 854 Miro whiteboards "in the cloud". These are completely fucking vendor-locked. Yeah export as JPEG or PDF my ass, that's not editable.

If Miro decides to sell its ass to someone who fucks it up, or has a catastrophic hardware failure, or whatever -- poof goes the cloud.

The open source diagramming desktop applications might be clunky, but they do store their data as XML or SVG, files which I can commit to a git repo.

So, my cognac-drunk boomer brain is in a mode of "FUCK THIS WEB NONSENSE, I WANT TO JUST APT-GET A UGLY GTK APP, WHY DO THESE HIPSTER KIDS RUIN EVERYTHING".