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Android dev is mostly dead? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Imo all apps like facebook, twitter, Instagram, reddit, imdb, or anything else that requires network and gives almost no benefits are pointless (and always were).

I see most people are finally getting it and there are less useless rest clients nowadays.

There few use cases for such apps - if you are bad at webdesign and have lots of free time. And second thing - theoretically app requires less bandwidth for requesting only JSON.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the reason you can make that statement is because the mobile web got better faster than app SDKs got better. That's a good thing!

A few things apps can do that I sometimes appreciate:

Richer notifications (especially on Android - it has a really rich notification system)
Richer / more robust integration with camera
Better sharing with other native apps
Click on a link in an email or a website and have it open in the native app rather than navigating to a new page

If mobile web could do all of those things we'd be set.