Periodic reminder that building a native mobile app in addition to (let alone instead of) a responsive web app is a dumb idea 90% of the time. Of the remaining 10%, 90% are best served by a hybrid app that wraps the web views.

Interesting. My last assessment of usability and functionality was the opposite. What are your examples?

e.g. Reddit, Twitter, LinkedIn, XING, Amazon, every banking and every flight booking app I’ve seen so far. Not to mention 99% of all enterprise apps

Even tough I tend to favor web views for MVPs or small app-investments I disagree on the premise. If you want to sport a website-like experience, yes, make a website. If you want a great, responsive (meaning slick, fast, usable) interface, build a great native app.

I would suggest to build a responsive web app and make it a PWA. This should be good enough for 80 % an then you can still decide, if more effort is really needed. Examples: Add Twitter or Instagram web app to your Homescreen. Even works on iOS 😉

I used Twitter web on my top-notch-mobile for the last month. It’s terrible. Not to look at, but to actually use. And that’s one of the high-profile consumer mobile-first companies. Maybe it is that no on could make it work but it’s easy to make work. Maybe just not

Crazy. On my one and half year old Android phone, it simply works.

It „works“, like a website would, quite ok. But compared to Twitter app, Tweetbot or Twitteriffic its terrible