It was 20 years ago today… - Web Directions
John’s article, A Dao Of Web Design, is twenty years old. If anything, it’s more relevant today than when it was written.
Here, John looks back on those twenty years, and forward to the next twenty…
PWA2APK- Convert PWA to APK file - Appmaker.xyz
This seems to work quite nicely: convert your progressive web app into an APK file that you can then submit to the Google Play store (you’ll still have to go through all the hassle of submitting the app, but still).
I tested this with The Session and sure enough, it looks like it’s available to download from Google Play.
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Competing by mimicking - Andy Bell
In my mind, the only way to “compete” with native apps is to do better than native apps—and with the web platform consistently improving and enabling us to produce app-like experiences, with Service Workers, ES6+ JavaScript, modern CSS and Web Components: we are very much on the path to do better than native apps.
Registering as a Share Target with the Web Share Target API | Web | Google Developers
Well, this could be very handy for Huffduffer!
Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps? — Smashing Magazine
This article conflates progressive web apps with having an app shell architecture. That’s a real shame.
Home | web.dev
I guess this domain name is why our local developmemnt environments stopped working.
Anyway, it’s a web interface onto Lighthouse (note that it has the same bugs as the version of Lighthouse in Chrome). Kind of like webhint.io.
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In between
Between the physical and the digital. Between native apps and the World Wide Web.
Screenshots
Filing an issue for the lazy web. Somebody build this!
Media queries with display-mode
I never would’ve known about the `display-mode` media feature if I hadn’t been writing about it.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Browser updates bring improvements to progressive web apps on iOS and Android.
Altering expectations
How do we let people know what the web can do?