Easier said than done. This is why when everyone has switched to React Native we have stuck with PhoneGap. Might we be ridiculed? Maybe. But we can easily make apps like this:
https://coinect.app
Here is my logic!
1. Invites have a URL.
2. The person doesn’t have the app yet, so they can get taken to the Website or the app store.
3. If Website, then if invite token is unique we can automatically confirm their phone number or email, and get everyone who has them in their contacts to follow them, so they instantly get friends and socially generated content they can interact with.
4. And then redirect to the app store. Then when the app is downloaded, it can open a BrowserTab inside and get a signed NewSessionID for the app. (Note: this ain’t oauth folks, our server uses a secret to sign and verify its own issued payloads that are relayed through clients like this.)
5. The result: zero passwords needed, tons of steps skipped. But then you think, what do you need the app for? Android has Chrome Notifications. So you only need it for Contacts. So you place buttons to download app in appropriate places.
6. If you’re gonna make a website anyway, then why not reuse it inside WebViews to not duplicate work?
7. But it’s not easy to make a website working across all browsers and devices and take advantage of touch and cameras on phones, and work differently on mobile phones (with sms://...) and QR codes and so on. There has to be a platform that does everything for you so you can just focus on building your app. Same as Mac and Windows handled GUI for all apps so you could focus on building your app. We need a Web OS for apps.
8. So basically, after 7 years of work, you arrive at this:
https://qbix.com/platform