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Can you give some examples?. (genuinely curious btw).
by Ramiuz 11y ago
Can you give some examples?. (genuinely curious btw).
- Mister_Snuggles 11y agoIsn't the Atom text editor mainly a Chromium web view running on the desktop?
- cosarara97 11y agoYes, and many people don't think of it as native for that reason.
- MisterBastahrd 11y agoThe colloquial definition of a native desktop application is an application that runs from a binary on your system. So yes, most people DO think of these as native applications.
- FigBug 11y agoIt's beyond that. I also uses the native APIs to create the user interface.
- Glide 11y agoSlack's desktop app is a web view. The iOS app is native. I think the wells fargo banking app on the phone is not native. The At&t one doesn't feel like it. Usually there's something different about the controls and interactions that make it not feel native. Sometimes there's a dead giveaway like being able to double tap and accidentally zoom in just like in mobile Safari.
- rubiquity 11y agoYep! A common pattern is for the navigation to be written in the native language to take advantage of faster/smoother animations and all dynamic content is inside of web views.
- drew-y 11y agoSpotify and Steam are. Although Steam doesn't really pull it off all that well.
- pavlov 11y agoNeither does Spotify. Visually it's out of place on every platform, and performance on computers older than few years has become unacceptable IMHO.
- throwaway999666 11y agoSpotify on Linux: clicking on things often feels slightly janky and laggy. How fitting! And the spacebar will 80% of the time page down rather than pause the music, something which sounds minor but which makes the user experience 50% more annoying for me. Do most people even use spacebar to page down in normal webpages!?
- pdeuchler 11y agoiTunes to a large extent is a wrapped WebView