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by binkHN 1095 days ago
Love the idea! And kudos to releasing on Android first, which tends to be rare. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the app seems to be mostly JavaScript with a small Android wrapper?
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Thank you kind stranger!

Actually I was planning to make a web app but then I realized not all news websites have APIs for requesting their content. Then I've come across CapacitorJS which allows you to convert your web projects into mobile apps and they have a plugin called "CapacitorHttp", which patches the usual fetch function to use native libraries instead. This way it is possible to make http requests that do not get blocked by CORS-related problems. So, all the requests are made on the client-side, which takes so much work from my shoulders :)

Neat! Thanks for the details!