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Just put my oldest child in school this year and I had to download FOUR apps. Four fucking apps. Why? This could have been a Progressive Web App and a push notification service. There is no need for this.
Have you considered refunding the child?
I think a lot of the time for universities it's cause they're not building their own custom tools for this stuff, just using off the shelf solutions that they can implement locally. So they just grab one app or system for each different thing they need instead of building one connected one.
Yeah I'm a programmer at a community college and this is like us. Although we don't have any apps, we have different web apps that we use. My current job is trying to use the APIs for each of them to try and build cards in one central web app that bring in the functionality from the other web apps to minimize the amount of time you spend going from web app to web app
PWAs still lock you into the Chrome ecosystem since Firefox doesn't support them (without plugins and pain).
Firefox for Android does support them fully, it's just desktop Firefox that doesn't have pwa support.
Safari supports them.
AFAIK Safari Desktop for MacOS does not.
You often can use web apps (of sorts). Most of those apps mirror the functionality of an already existing mobile web page. Then you just make a little web app container of that mobile site.
Progressive web apps don't work for shit on ios. Why bother developing it for Android users only when you'll need an alternative regardless?