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by 3pt14159 3027 days ago
Because a lot of us web deva used it once for a contract before swearing it and all of mobile development off forever. I’m sure it’s come a long way since, but it was pretty brutal to understand and debug years ago.
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Because you're actually interacting with two completely different stacks at least that have a pretty leaky abstraction. So you only get the painful parts of iOS development, certificates and build chains not the fun parts. Repeat that for Android. points double barreled shotgun at chin

As a native iOS dev I write my own wrappers for web applications, I think Cordova is too just too much hassle for what it really does and only limits my possibilities as a native developer hosting a web application.

Off-topic: Any good point in how make the android webview to perform well?