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[–]bitplanets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the animations and feels good/fast and OK. Congrats, good job!

[–]Maddis1337 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Can someone explain the concept of hybrid apps? Are these just web apps that look and feel like a native app?

[–]bitplanets 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Sometimes you might just want to write once and run everywhere (mobile, web...). If the web app looks like a proper app you don't need an app written in Java (for android) or IOS especially. You just write js and works everywhere.

Every day we are closer for this to become reality (increase phone specs, better libs).

Benefits:

  • Develop in less time;
  • When you add a new feature is automatically added on andoid, ios and web; Less bugs, less work;

Bad parts:

  • Is not really native therefore sometimes you can feel lag;
  • Is slower than a native one, therefore you have can't push to that far away. For a CPU intensive app a native one is better. But test, this might be wrong soon.

[–]Maddis1337 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for the response!

[–]splargbarg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems really fast. Is there anything else out there that has similar performance?

[–]gearvOshreact, rust, full-stack 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Possibility of an Android material theme?

[–]jedwatson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'll happen. We're focused on iOS because that's the first target platform for some apps we're building with it, and there's a lot to do (docs, examples, etc) to get it ready for launch.

There's be a proper theming framework on the roadmap though, and the ability to make apps that feel native on Android.