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0 pointsastrange2y ago0 comments

> Can you give an example of something can only be done in a native app?

Accessibility, text field behaviors, control animations looking right, window resizing behaviors, any system settings related to UI applying properly, printing, export to PDF, rich text copy and paste, normal power and memory use, the engineers working on the next OS release being able to fix your app if they break it, your app updating to the next OS version's UI changes automatically…

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tcfhgj2y ago

afaik not a problem with apps written in something like react native which use platform specific widgets and common business logic.

astrangeOP2y ago

There's more to a UI layer than individual controls. Like spacing between them fitting platform conventions, and window resizing and text size needs them to coordinate.

obrhoff2y ago

It actually is. Fortunately, the quality of apps dropped significantly, allowing these technologies to compete.

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