• pelya@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve made a webpage that would send a notification to my phone through the web browser when someone joins my Quake 3 server, and it took one day. The most complicated piece was reading the amount of players on the server, the notificatuon part I just copypasted from the net.

    No app. Just a webpage. The notification was reliable, looked as native as it gets, and would even wake up my phone from sleep.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah these companies want native apps because they can get more device information and have (mostly) unblockable analytics. Most apps are just web apps disguised at native apps anyway