#Tech101

What are Progressive web apps?

Advantages
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Offline mode
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Low data
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Low storage
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Improved performance
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Platform Specific features

Companies using it include: Twitter(twitter lite), Jumia, Starbucks, Pinterest, Forbes, The Washington post etc.

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Progressive Web Apps are web apps that use emerging web browser APIs and features along with traditional progressive enhancement strategy to bring a native app-like user experience to cross-platform web applications.

Low data consumption
It requires very low amount of data to use e.g. a PWA app can be 2.8mb large while it& #39;s native app can be 30mb and still perform same feature

Low data storage. It takes up very low amount of storage on your device.

Offline mode v PWAs can be cached by the web browser and used even when offline.

53% of users will abandon a site if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load! And once loaded, users expect them to be fast—no janky scrolling or slow-to-respond interfaces,” states Google on its website.

They can utilize platform Specific features, enables push notifications, can access location, custom splash screen and a lot of features like
Geo-Location
Real-Time Camera
Data Storage
Payments
Biometric Authentication
USB/Bluetooth
Motion Sensors
Native Push Notifications.

App store independent
You can use without downloading in app store and also developers don& #39;t need to pay app.

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So you can delete Twitter and install Twitter lite if you need space.

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