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I need to develop an app for a site that already exists. Part of the content of this site will be in the app.
I was thinking of developing an app using Goodbarbers, a service where it is possible to develop an application, without using programming. And they generate the code in Objective-C (for iOS) and Java (for Android).
There are other similar services on the market, which provide the application in a hybrid way. As if it emulated the webview of the browsers. Would it be more advantageous to do so? Maybe I lose in performance compared to a native application.
But when I researched this, I came across PWA, which in a way does something similar. But, I was a little confused by how it works. In case, it would be like an app too?
@Guilhermenascimento would like to know if in fact this can behave like an application. Or if the operation is only by mobile browsers.
– Felipe Viero Goulart
PWA is a feature of some browsers that creates a special shortcut on mobile that when activated, opens the browser, usually without the frame to look like a native application, and loads your app. The app can have cached parts locally, and a JS doing route control, to determine which features will be loaded or generated locally, and which remotes. That’s basically it, a "much improved shortcut" for the browser. When well used, it leverages already known web development resources to try to stay a little less distant from native applications.
– Bacco
@Bacco and how is this shortcut made available? The user has to create, or I can do as if it were an application?
– Felipe Viero Goulart
@Felipegoulart Basically by accessing the PWA site, the browser offers the option to you create a shortcut. Test here: https://pwa.rocks/
– Bacco
@Bacco would like it to be something like Facebook Lite.
– Felipe Viero Goulart
As far as I know, facebook lite is not PWA. It would be good for you to see existing Pwas to visualize how far they reach. PWA does not miracle. Stay tuned for this: PWA is "Progressive WEB apps". Maybe they improve the integration a little in the future, but tends to always be a browser opening a site with curly parts on the device, nothing more than that.
– Bacco
@Felipegoulart depends on the browser having support that or not Google Chrome Android supports and some versions of iOS (I don’t know which foot it walks in) Chrome OS 67 also came to support. It’s not necessarily supporting PWA, but providing what you need to create it.
– Guilherme Nascimento