Just looking through the apps I currently have open… Bank app, chat app, maps, T...

IshKebab · on Aug 27, 2023

I would say only the weather and bank apps would be really equal as a PWA.

Maps require complex gestures and advanced graphics and UIs that would never work well as a PWA. Try maps.google.com. Its nothing like the Google Maps app. Plus Android Auto integration.

Tile probably needs pretty deep Bluetooth integration and background processing that the web doesn't provide.

YouTube can do things like PiP that you can't do on the web.

spion · on Aug 27, 2023

PiP, the one feature of youtube that I did not want (in the majority of cases) but got anyway.

edit: Sorry for the snark. I think that maps are probably doable with pointer events (https://caniuse.com/?search=pointer) and Android is doing pretty well in terms of Web Bluetooth https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth/blob/main/im...

mk12345 · on Aug 27, 2023

Good points. Additionally, PiP is also possible in most browsers.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Picture-in-...

c-hendricks · on Aug 28, 2023

I use YouTube in a browser on my phone specifically because it has PiP without having to pay Google monthly for the privilege.

If I request the Desktop version of YouTube, where Google doesn't hide their own Mini player button, the video continues to play in the corner.

Mapbox.js is also pretty capable.

Not really sure what you're on about TBH.