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by jmb99 229 days ago
> It’s because if a webview app experience is good, you don’t notice it, you only notice if it’s bad.

Aside from Apple’s apps (which imo are noticeably worse than the old ones, but that’s beside the point), what are some good WebView apps on iOS right now?
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la_fayette 229 days ago
Somebody scraped the play store and checked the framework, so a list for Android WebView apps, built with capacitor, is here: https://capgo.app/top_capacitor_app/ Maybe an equivalent is there on iOS for the same app...
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fluidcruft 228 days ago
lichess is really good. Thanks for the info, I'm not surprised to learn it's a webview app, but it is really good.

It doesn't look native but who even cares. I think when a UI sucks or is unintuitive or buggy then "it's not native" is a sort of catchall easy complaint. Native is a crutch. Sometimes it's a good crutch (accessibility etc). But that's more about developer efficiency and bare minimums of polish.

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riderx 229 days ago
Sadly i couldn’t find a reliable way to do it on Apple Store, it’s pretty hard to download from the store outside of apple device. If anyone know how i can do it too
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la_fayette 228 days ago
It might not be possible but others have scraped just the app store and matched based on Android meta data: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/amesbah/resources/papers/mobilesof...
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crossroadsguy 229 days ago
Yes, Apple's apps are really really bad - including the app store. I am not even sure whether that app store can be considered a stand alone app or we should call it part of the OS.

A webview app is by design bad. Webviews were made for one thing - web views.

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riversflow 228 days ago
The app store is the only application that I am aware of that you can't find through spotlight search. You can search the app store directly from spotlight search, but it will never list the App Store as an app. Very annoying.
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adastra22 228 days ago
I just opened spotlight and typed “ap” and App Store came up as the first option.
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riversflow 225 days ago
Thanks for this comment. I was able to fix this issue, finally. Had to toggle the switch in setting> apps> App Store > search and restart my devices. :)

I thought it was some legal thing about App Store competition.

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