How to create an iOS & android app from my web app?
I'm wondering if there's any tools these days that can convert your code into an ios/android app? I'm looking to convert my platform Pallyy into an app so I can utilize push notifications.
I'm not really sure if anything like this even exists, but if it does - let me know!
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Yes, you can use something like Cordova for that.
Checking it out now, thanks for the tip! It looks good.
If you just want push notifications, cordova is fine.
Here's a demo of a app I built for web first and then ported it to mobile using Cordova.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louFdcEOGtM&feature=youtu.be
Thanks Victor.
A question about the process, does Cordova take your react code & convert it fully to iso/android? I mean, do you need to make any changes to the code etc?
Still trying to understand how it all works.
Thx.
It uses WebView technology.
You need some minimal changes to make it work. It isn't optimal but it works fine.
Let me know if you need help, I can share the github diffs with you and my config for push notifications.
React Native is solid but it's not a 1:1 port from a web app but you can copy over a lot of logic. The ability to use push notifications is nice but in my experience most users opt out of receiving them so you might want spend a bit of time coming up with a strategy to convert as many users as you can to opt in.
I'm actually using VUE, so this wouldn't help but thanks anyway! In fact the main reason is for push notifications, and the users would be downloading it especially for that so I'm sure they would turn it on.
I've heard only good things about Capacitor
Been looking into this also, still trying to wrap my head around it haha. Thanks.