We have more features to implement but we wanted to get this up as soon as it was a solid, usable solution.
Speaking of installable instances of DEV, did you know you can install our site as a desktop PWA? There are some definite gotchas to the current state of desktop PWA but it's an interesting possible future.
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.
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.
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
Grew up in Russia, lived in the States, moved to Germany, sometimes live in Spain. I program since I was 13. I used to program games, maps and now I reverse engineer password managers and other stuff
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Was React Native used to develop the app ? If so, What UI kit was used to give the app the same web ui feel ? This app is really cool like its PWA sibling.
I took a look at the source code on github and it looks like that it's a native Android app, but it uses a webview that contains the website. But I don't know that for sure...
It would be cool if this was developed using React Native. I would want to contribute :)
We have more features to implement but we wanted to get this up as soon as it was a solid, usable solution.
Speaking of installable instances of DEV, did you know you can install our site as a desktop PWA? There are some definite gotchas to the current state of desktop PWA but it's an interesting possible future.
Is there any beta program one can sign up for??
what are you finding lacking in current state of PWAs that you need for dev.to?
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.
Can you show us what APIs ? 🤓
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
Is there an API that allows posting on dev.to?
I was not able to figure it out. I was browsing thorough the code for an hour and couldn't figure out how to login using the API.
Was React Native used to develop the app ? If so, What UI kit was used to give the app the same web ui feel ? This app is really cool like its PWA sibling.
I took a look at the source code on github and it looks like that it's a native Android app, but it uses a webview that contains the website. But I don't know that for sure...
It would be cool if this was developed using React Native. I would want to contribute :)
The PWA is awesome. I have been using it most of the time on phone. It works pretty well. 😎