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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I've used it before and it's got it's pros and cons. Ultimately the big thing is not all apps need to be the "killer app". Some apps are pretty simple, so a one size fits all can be nice. It's definitely not the same as developing natively, but for small teams/apps it's not too bad.

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    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    It looks like your reply got submitted multiple times.

    I agree with you now about preference for web apps, but that was not the case when Google started pushing Flutter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.

    I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.

    I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.

    I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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    If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.

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