With a native app, the only thing you really need to send back and forth is some JSON data and let the app do the formatting for you. It's a much better arrangement when your target demographic includes those with bad internet.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

How is that any different from a web site? There are multiple caches between the browser and the server. The initial load (assuming a prior visit and no updates since) may be smaller than 1kB.

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 5 points 1 year ago

you can do that with a browser too. with service workers, it can also run without an internet connection and/or indefinitely cache the ui part so that it's also just a json api. most websites already work in a very similar way, and even if it's not intentionally set up this way, your browser will do its best to make it like this to keep your user experience snappy.

your browser just also protects you from certain level of system access that shouldn't be granted to any random website you visit, and that's what these apps want.