Comment by Bob Gibilaro on "When will the Hashnode Mobile App get released?"

CommentWhen will the Hashnode Mobile App get released?

Bob Gibilaro

Web developer in Nashville TN

Nov 22, 2016

I guess I don't see the point. The mobile web interface works great. I have it saved to my phone's homescreen. It uses the fav icon as the app icon. If I were to give this to most users, they would not realize it was NOT a native app.

What would we gain with a native app that we don't currently have?

Thoughts?

Brandon

Frontend Developer

Nov 22, 2016

There are some things which a website just can't do but a mobile app can such as notifications (unless the browser is open with the screen on).

Bob Gibilaro

Web developer in Nashville TN

Nov 22, 2016

This is true, although I would say with web workers and the notifications API gaining wider support on mobile, this is becoming less of an issue.

I generally look at what most apps truly need, and it seems that native is necessary less and less. I suppose it is a balance of investing time into a separate, native application vs. simply improving the mobile site and which gives you more bang for your code buck, as it were.

(All of this being said, of course if a mobile app comes out, I will be installing it, so label me a bit hypocritical.)

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