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Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

bowsamic wrote: post #27
InsideOutSanta wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often create small apps like these for my friends, but 100% of them are written in PHP and plain HTML with some JavaScript. They need to be built quickly, deployed quickly, updated quickly, run on every device, and be runnable by sending a link on WhatsApp. So it doesn't matter what Apple does because I'm never going to put something like that into any App Store.

Well the reason why you are having to use a web browser rather than sharing the app written using native APIs is because Apple forces you to use the App Store, so you yes did matter what Apple does. They prevent you from using the native toolkit and your use of the browser is partly a workaround for that EDIT also Apple are in full control of what functionality they expose in their web APIs so even then it matters hu…

> Well the reason why you are having to use a web browser

I don't have to use a web browser; I want to use a web browser. I'm not in the US, so almost nobody I know uses an iPhone, and I could easily send them APKs, but why go through the trouble?

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by simonw »

It looks like getting the apps built with this to work well on mobile is in the roadmap, but not mobile editing itself:

"A hand-sized touchscreen is too small for editing Scrapps comfortably"

I would encourage them not to underestimate the tenacity of mobile phone users!

For a lot of people these days their mobile phone is their only digital computing device. People write code on mobile phones. People write entire novels.

I think this tool's impact could be greatly increased by taking the time to figure out a mobile editing interface, even one that feels less comfortable than the desktop experience.

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by bowsamic »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #82
bowsamic wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the reason why you are having to use a web browser rather than sharing the app written using native APIs is because Apple forces you to use the App Store, so you yes did matter what Apple does. They prevent you from using the native toolkit and your use of the browser is partly a workaround for that EDIT also Apple are in full control of what functionality they expose in their web APIs so even then it matters hu…

> Well the reason why you are having to use a web browser I don't have to use a web browser; I want to use a web browser. I'm not in the US, so almost nobody I know uses an iPhone, and I could easily send them APKs, but why go through the trouble?

I mean that’s fine but then you can’t use a huge number of system APIs so it is actually a problem if you want to write software that uses your phones features. It is not okay just because iPhones or androids have a web browser. It’s insane to me that you’re even trying to argue that it’s not a problem that Apple do not let you write native software for iOS for free

Also iPhone is not just a US thing. I’m in Germany and iPhone is very popular here too

Re: Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

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Post by QuantumWanderer »

I'd love if this turns into a social platform for apps. Facebook has text, Instagram has images, TikTok has video... Scrappy has apps. Apps. Not code.

View your friend's apps, use your friend's apps, remix your friend's apps to suit your needs.

But it needs to be all-in on speech. End-to-end abstracts away the concept of code. Speech-to-App.

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