Developing an application that may work in every device on the market is the dream of all developers. Maybe Progressive Web Applications are the closest approach to achieving that purpose. In the Safe Teamwork project, we use this type of application to ensure we can reach out to a wider variety of users with a different kind of device. In this post, we are going to talk about how this technology works and how we use it in our project.
Introduction to PWA
Native applications have many advantages because of native integration with the device where they are running. However, this is time-consuming and there are lots of devices in the market, so the company will need a developer/developers in each technology to raise the costs. One solution could be to just focus on a few platforms, such as the web and android. But most web applications can benefit from two concepts, Responsive Design and Progressive Web Applications (PWA), that enable them to reach out to more platforms.
Responsive web design is the capability of web applications to adjust their graphic components to almost any screen size. As fonts and images are resizable nowadays, this approach has huge potential. Here is what Safe Teamwork looks like in responsive design:
