A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

/dev

Developing for mobile in crypto sucks. You basically have to pick between innovation vs growth?

With Native Apps, you get the optimal experience but you have to work within app store rules (no token gating, etc).

With PWAs, you can innovate freely but you're sacrificing growth potential through worse UX/performance.

hopeful of iOS sideloading happening in a meaningful way

hopeful of iOS sideloading happening in a meaningful way https://www.computerworld.com/article/3710368/apple-gets-ready-for-app-sideloading-in-europe.html

Senior prompt engineer. Shipped on farcaster: @larrybot, @qdau, @frames, @framesfun, /open-frames, farcasterchannels.com, farcaster.id, @mod, @search, @discove

Maybe, doubt most people will go through the process to sideload apps. And Apple definitely won't make it easy.

likes building things • https://alexgrover.me

Yeah that's the ideal scenario, but unfortunately can't really build with that assumption in mind. Have to wait for confirmation that will be the case.

I’m optimistic that it’ll end up like Mac apps - the app store is the primary distribution method, but it’s easy to sideload from any website and people expect it for certain types of apps

For sure. Most people (outside of this space) have likely never installed a PWA, so imo feels like sideloaded apps will have the same problems.

can't be that much more complex than installing a PWA, right?

I'm sure Apple will find ways to make sideloaded apps worse in meaningful ways, even if its just performance. Hope that the EU follows through and forces them to fix those intentional shortcomings