Posted by MrVandemar 3 days ago
> It reports tracking data associated with your Google Account back to the developers.
Fortunately webpages never do any tracking whatsoever, let alone “Gobshite LLC and its 1131 partners need your permission for (contd. p94)”
I want my phone to be the portal to the places I want to go to and the things I want to see. I want to have the same experience going to a web app or website I regularly visit as with a normal app.
Like, I want to click on an icon and be there. I don't want to click on the browser and then find the tab.
Also, I want PWAs and website shortcuts to be first class citizens. I want a normal icon, not one that has some sort of visual marker that it's not a normal app.
It's been an ongoing annoyance, but it's getting to be more commonplace of an issue because there are a lot of people building cool things on atproto, and they generally start as a web app before they maybe build a phone app.
This has nothing to do with ‘sharing’ something
By the way, the link doesn't load for me, so I used the archive to read it. https://archive.ph/ByFBN
No it's not. Hosting a web app is one of the most trivial things you can do these days, far more trivial than attempting to get an app into the app store. Hosting API's and Databases is a little more difficult but you still need those things if you're building an app.
There is no world in which getting your app signed, getting it approved, getting every update approved and paying $X/year to Apple or Google is easier than hosting a webapp, even if you host it in the most difficult way possible (on say AWS + Cloudfront). And even that method isn't that difficult, just moreso relative to other ways of hosting a webapp.
Open Safari, navigate to the web app, tap the Share button, scroll down, and select 'Add to Home Screen'.
Except it seems like plenty of apps these days are just vehicles to give web-based services some native abilities, so they're practically useless without a data connection.
Shipping a local app eliminates a lot of those headaches.
Make your website static and host it on a CDN. There's nothing expensive or thankless about it.
Stop over engineering.
> With only a couple of minutes experimentation I discovered that the app works by concatenating the username and password5 and using it in a URL of the form:
We worked hard so you don't have to vibe code your way to get the experience you prefer.