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Mobile experiences and progressive web apps

An icon on the home screen and an offline mode, without building two native apps.

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Most of your visitors are on a phone, on mobile data, and are not going to install anything. A progressive web app meets them there. It is a website, so it opens from a link. It can also be added to the home screen, run full screen, cache its own files and keep working when the signal drops.

For a lot of businesses this replaces a native app entirely. There is one codebase instead of three, updates go live immediately rather than waiting on a store review, and there is no thirty percent cut on anything you sell.

Native still wins when you need deep hardware access, background location, or presence in the app stores for its own sake. We will say so rather than sell you the thing we happen to build.

What the work covers

Included in every mobile & pwa project.

  • Installable to the home screen

    A proper manifest with icons at every size, a splash screen and a standalone display mode, so it opens without browser chrome.

  • Works on a weak connection

    A service worker caches the shell and recent content. A tunnel or a lift no longer means a blank page.

  • Push notifications

    Supported on Android and on installed iOS apps. Used for order updates and appointments, not for marketing blasts.

  • Touch first interface

    Tap targets sized for thumbs, gestures where they help, and forms that bring up the right keyboard for each field.

  • Built for cheap phones

    Tested on low memory devices with a throttled connection, because that is what a large share of Indian traffic actually is.

  • Store listing if you need one

    The same app packaged for Play Store submission where a listing genuinely matters to you.

Questions

Asked often enough to answer here.

If yours is not here, the general questions page covers how we work, or you can just ask.

Will it appear in the Play Store?

Only if we package it for that. A progressive web app installs directly from the browser by default. We can wrap it for Play Store submission when a listing matters to you, which is mostly about credibility rather than function.

Does this work on iPhone?

Yes, with limits. Installing to the home screen and offline caching work. Push notifications work only once the user has actually installed it. Apple's support has improved steadily but it still trails Android.

Do we still need a native app?

Only for deep hardware use, background location tracking, or when your customers genuinely expect to find you in a store. For booking, ordering, tracking and account access, a progressive web app does the job at a fraction of the cost.