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- Starbucks. Aiming at providing accessible, user-friendly online ordering to all of their customers, Starbucks built a PWA of the ordering system on the web, which delivers a similar experience to their existing native app.
- Debenhams. When talking about brands that are transforming their shopping experience in the fashion industry, you can’t miss out on Debenham. The famous UK brand realized that even though their old website had increased mobile traffic, the mobile conversion rate wasn’t growing.
- BMW. As a pioneering brand in the car industry, BMW proves that they aren’t shy away from new technologies, be it with their cars or their website. In order to improve the customer experience, the brand sought to provide quality and engaging content, which reflects their values.
- Flipboard. As the world’s most popular social magazine, Flipboard allows readers to keep up with all topics, news, and events they care about, from one single place.
- Overview
- Platform-specific apps
- Traditional websites
- Progressive web apps
A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that's built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.
Platform-specific apps are developed for a specific operating system (OS) and/or class of device, like an iOS or Android device, generally using an SDK provided by the platform vendor. They are usually distributed using the vendor's app store, where the user can find and install them, and they subsequently seem to the user like a permanent extra feature of their device, expanding its capabilities in some way.
The benefits of platform-specific apps include:
•Easy for users to access: They get their own icon on the device, making it easy for users to find and open them.
•Offline and background operation: They are able to operate when the user is not interacting with them and when the device is offline. This, for example, enables a chat app to receive messages when it is not open, and display a notification to the user. It also enables a news app to update in the background so it can show fresh content even if the device is offline.
•Dedicated UI: They can implement their own distinctive, immersive UI.
•OS integration: They can be integrated into the host OS: for example, a messaging app can register as a share target, enabling users to select an image in the photo app and send it using the messaging app. They can also access device features such as the camera, GPS or accelerometer.
Traditionally, websites are less like "something the user has" and more like "somewhere the user visits". Typically, a website: does not have a presence on the user's device when the user is not accessing it, can only be accessed by the user opening the browser and navigating to the site, and is highly dependent on network connectivity.
However, websites have some benefits over platform-specific apps, including:
•Single codebase: Because the web is inherently cross-platform, a website can run on different operating systems and device classes from a single codebase.
•Distribution via the web: The web is a great distribution platform. Websites are indexed by search engines, and can be shared and accessed just using URLs. A website can be distributed with no need to sign up to any vendor's app store.
Progressive web apps combine the best features of traditional websites and platform-specific apps.
PWAs have the benefits of websites, including:
•PWAs are developed using standard web platform technologies, so they can run on multiple operating systems and device classes from a single codebase.
•PWAs can be accessed directly from the web.
PWAs also have many of the benefits of platform-specific apps, including:
•PWAs can be installed on the device. This means:
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