Ask HN: What is the best way for kids to build a mobile app?

Post by brudgers » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

a-saleh wrote: post #11

brudgers wrote: post #4

The easiest way to run code on a mobile device is to serve it as HTML. A simple way to do this is from a laptop over the local LAN with Python's simpleHTTPServer or Python3's http.server. Any mobile (or non-mobile) device can connect to the 192.168.XXX.XXX:port so long as it has a web browser. This avoids a dependency on the app store, complex tooling, emulators, fees, registrations, etc. It touches on many topics mo…

Well, if there is an easy enough pwa framework, yhen it might be almost indistinguishable for most people :)

  function > indistinguishability