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by int_19h 2830 days ago
It still doesn't give you native look & feel.

Although much as it pains me, I think that is a lost cause. And it was lost through attrition - devs kept throwing non-native (often, JS-based) apps at users, and users got conditioned to each app having its own look, much like websites.
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petekp 2829 days ago
I feel you. In most cases, Android and iOS's native components are superior to custom-rolled UI elements. Easier to use, more performant, and they leverage our platform muscle memory.

Fortunately, it does seem like these platforms are beginning to converge on a set of common UI patterns, e.g. Android adopting the tab bar, and iOS apps beginning to adopt Android's horizontal-paging navigation. The colors, iconography, and typography shifting can disorient somewhat, but I'd argue it's the navigation model that's most disruptive when using different apps.

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int_19h 2829 days ago
It's much worse on the desktop, where we already had very detailed GUI standards, with decades of polish - and it's all getting thrown out because of the latest Electron etc fad. The upside is that Linux sees some great apps (like VS Code), but I'm not sure that's worth the cost.
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