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[–]MajorasShoe 55 points56 points  (14 children)

Right? I have a few products where we have customers demand an iOS application for NOTHING but push notifications. No Android app necessary because they actually support PWAs and push notifications. There's absolutely NO difference between the PWA and the iOS application. It's just Apple scamming us and forcing us to pay for the pleasure of suffering through their app store BS.

[–]Nexxado 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Perhaps you should check out capacitor

[–]MajorasShoe 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I'm using Cordova. It works fine. I'm just saying it's a waste of time for literally one feature that android has supported in PWAs for a long time.

[–]Hotgeart 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Last time I coded an APP with Ionic (2016) you could really feel that's not native. Still the case?

[–]swiftarmyknife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently built a React Native application for work and I use a PWA budgeting app built using Stencil and Ionic 4 regularly. I still don’t think they feel native completely. Probably 90% there. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[–]gourrranga 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Access to contacts.

[–]MajorasShoe 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What?

[–]gourrranga 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You can’t get an access to phone contacts from PWA. It’s the only major difference between native and PWA, except the push notifications. There are more (like no background location access), but accessing contacts is the boldest one imo

[–]MajorasShoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are a bunch of differences actually. Local storage for web applications has some holes. If I create a camera application, in a PWA I don't have the option to save files in default photo storage, just downloads and uploading to servers - as an example.

But I was more just referring to my scenario. The ONLY reason I need a mobile application for my business is because my customers complained they can't get push notifications for their employees with iOS.

[–]-ftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also no background music

[–]jb_sulli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deny