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by fimdomeio 3031 days ago
There are situations where you can't use cookies like when developing mobile apps [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31139365/can-you-use-coo...

We only stoped using cookies because of that since we wanted a more universal implementation so minimal changes had to be done between a web app and a mobile app implementation.

Other than that we would keep using session cookies.

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Not familiar with the framework referenced in your link, but if you are doing truly native development on iOS, the URL loading supports cookies [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co...

Cordova wraps a web app into a native container. I've never used it, but i guess it doesn't use (or expose?) the native loading API…