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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

You're reading from   Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic Building highly interactive mobile apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286056
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaurav Saini Gaurav Saini
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The future of PWAs

Progressive web applications gives us so many possibilities such as the ability to install, send push, and offline support, which bridges the gap between mobile web and native applications. Currently, the problem is that iOS and Safari do not have the support for service workers, which is still under consideration. There are assumptions going on that in the latter half of 2017, they might come up with service worker support, which will help enable PWA features.

Progressive web applications are the next step forward in improving mobile web. With growing mobile traffic day by day this make a lot of sense. Also, from last some time we were seeing that many websites are forcing their users to use mobile web to install native applications, which is really annoying. One of the famous e-commerce giants in India, Flipkart, even discontinued its mobile web version once with a banner that asks users to...

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