🫡 Ditch Building Native Apps For These 10 Reasons!

Tom Smykowski
12 min readMar 27, 2024

You’ll be much better building a web app rather than native app. Here are ten myths that may stop you from the right decision

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If it comes to developing an app, the first question people ask themselves is, if they should write it on Android, or iOS first. While, they should ask themselves if they want to write a native app at all.

Here’s the thing. The web environment developed rapidly during last years, and for many, many cases you don’t have to deal with naive apps at all. In this article I’ll tell you about 10 myths that are still prevalent about the web vs native apps, and why these are false.

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1 Myth: You Can’t Install A Web App

Usually people tend to think, that you can’t install a web app on your laptop or smartphone. It’s a misconception, because a web app is accessible from anywhere. You can open it in your favorite browser like Brave, Opera and even vendor provided browsers like Chrome, Edge or Safari.

Moreover there are options to access it easier. You can bookmark your web app, create a desktop…

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora, reached 23rd floor in Shuttered Pixel Dungeon