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Max Lynch

Hi Rajeev, thanks for the feedback. I'm confused, Ionic has nothing to do with your sqlite db? Also Capacitor has support for Local Notifications and other APIs, or you can drop down to native code to do anything you need to do while still keeping 95% of your app in cross-platform web code.

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Rajeev Jayaswal

Hey Max, what I meant was - I had faced lots of issues with ionic in implementing various use cases. One example being uploading sqlite-db to google drive. Had to struggle lots of make it work and then used to get stuck with new issues.

So I moved to native development. I think ionic is great if we just want to build application which does not involve much of system services, backing up data to google drive, etc.
Thanks for your articles and response though.

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Max Lynch

Appreciate the feedback. I don't think this is anything specific to Ionic because you can drop down to native services all you need to. However, this is likely a lot easier if you use Capacitor instead of Cordova (Capacitor is our modern replacement for Cordova) which makes it a lot easier to add custom native code.