We'd like to think so :) The web is seeing many new capabilities come along at an increasing rate: service worker, offline, push notifications, background, install to homescreen, app install banner, blue tooth, presentation api, battery status, vibration, to name a few.
Apart from features, it really depends what you're building and the target devices. Some of these APIs are a ways off in other (non-Chrome) browsers. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:08 PM Sharma, Saurabh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for this Eric. Though I already had gone through that. > > Maybe I was not clear, My question was more towards the promise of overall > 'mobile web' being able to compete with going native(via > Xamarin/titanium/react-native or directly) > > "Is polymer based App in near future going to be ready to compete with a > similar native app or ‘thin abstraction’ based app (like one built with > xamarin, appcelator or react-native) " > > and > > "I believe concepts like service worker, offline first handling and other > newer features may be giving mobile web a +1 v/s the native app scene, but > want to stay corrected. " > > I did discuss this with Matt barney in the slack channel the other ay, and > he did mention Lollypop onwards android performance improvements in the > webview. want to gather something that I have missed until now. > > Will create a simple polymer 1.0 + webview sample and share anyways. :-) > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Eric Bidelman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wrote an article on using Polymer in a webview/wrapper app: >> https://www.polymer-project.org/0.5/articles/webview.html >> >> It's based on 0.5, but most of the interesting bits are version agnostic. >> All that said, I haven't tried 1.0 in a cordova based app. Might be worth >> experimenting with. >> >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:42 PM Sharma, Saurabh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys - >>> >>> A question about Polymer & "Chrome Apps for Mobile” - >>> >>> Is polymer based App in near future going to be ready to compete with a >>> similar native app or ‘thin abstraction’ based app (like one built with >>> xamarin, appcelator or react-native) >>> >>> Can someone suggest some good resources on this topic ? >>> >>> I believe concepts like service worker, offline first handling and other >>> newer features may be giving mobile web a +1 v/s the native app scene, but >>> want to stay corrected. >>> >>> I really would like to build my mobile Apps with Polymer , but am >>> worried about the performance lags (which I have observed in other cordova >>> based apps in the past built) >>> >>> Is Polymer gonna be any different ? >>> >>> -- >>> >>> [image: --] >>> >>> Saurabh Sharma >>> [image: http://]about.me/saurshaz >>> <http://about.me/saurshaz> >>> >>> >>> Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Polymer" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CALu-crXRYqu9zk0vLX5y%2BPmTKNiWFQJT3QNL6nT04DnL81Sy3w%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CALu-crXRYqu9zk0vLX5y%2BPmTKNiWFQJT3QNL6nT04DnL81Sy3w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> > > > -- > > [image: --] > > Saurabh Sharma > [image: http://]about.me/saurshaz > <http://about.me/saurshaz> > > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/CACGqRCA7_G9ZsM6AbhJOSsnsPxaLd3R05uErhAcGXcbr%2BBkFJw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
