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🫡 Ditch Building Native Apps For These 10 Reasons!
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 shortcut (also on mobile devices). If an app offers such possibility, you can even install it as a PWA application, something that is a web app that behaves like it would be a native app.
But even without that you can enjoy any web app from anywhere, whatever device you have. If you like you can open the browser in fullscreen mode and enjoy it without any interruptions.
In conclusion: web apps are just like native apps
2 Myth: Building Web App Is More Expensive
Some people believe developing a web app is more expensive than a native app. In fact the opposite is true. Developing a native app app costs more. First of all, you have to pay to be able to deploy your app to a native app store like…
