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Discussion on: Announcing DEV for Android

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Luis Montes

what are you finding lacking in current state of PWAs that you need for dev.to?

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Ben Halpern

Specifically for desktop, there are just a few unanswered questions about how certain functionality would be delivered. It's just early and some of the features we might want to use are not yet shipped.

On mobile, especially Android, it's been really nice. But we wanted to get into the native realm because certain APIs may never ship to PWA and getting into native is important to ensure the best longterm user experience.

By mostly relying on webviews, it's not that hard to ship to as many platforms as possible.

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kip

But we wanted to get into the native realm because certain APIs may never ship to PWA and getting into native is important to ensure the best longterm user experience.

Can you show us what APIs ? πŸ€“

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KhoPhi

Curious to learn what specific APIs too myself.

I'm all for the iOS, Android apps as options, however, I doubt there's anything that'll be implemented in the natives that isn't supported in the browser at the moment.

The web API support has advanced interestingly.

Anyway kudos to the team behind the platform apps. Enjoying the PWA