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Discussion on: Help test the DEV beta app!

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Ben Halpern

To anybody curious: The Android app will follow. iOS got prioritized due to Apple's crappy support for PWA. 🙃

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K

Why not Expo? ;)

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Shashi

haha..thanks. Good to know the poorer section of the globe who arent IOS also have hope!

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rhymes

A question: is the app "wrapping" the PWA? If I'm not mistaken the API is not out in the wild so I guess you're using "web views" or something like that. Would love to read an article about how you and the contributors built it.

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Ben Halpern

Great idea for a post. The repo contains the gist of the approach but I could definitely walk through the process.

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Jannis Jorre

Personally I prefer an optimized PWA over installing a native app on Android, but I guess there's still enough people who want to use Apps...

(Android should just simply support setting a default PWA Browser which is different to the default browser.. When Chrome Canary is broken, it's really annoying that my PWAs also don't work..)

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Vedran Mandić

I wonder how many regular users are aware of PWAs at all.

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Gareth Bradley

I'm loving the PWA on android. Using Edge for Android and have it pinned to my homepage. Notifications don't come through though.