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RE: Steemify Beta released! - Little time to relax
Did you ever look into using something like phonegap? I've just ported my app over to mobile and it's just a matter of making the most minor changes to bog standard html/css/js. While it's great in that it's incredibly simple to do, you do cede some control to the blackbox of whatever settings the Apache people chose. I'm having troubles getting it to consistently notify the user with any sort of alert (vibrate/beep/note tray). It's just a case of throwing enough beta/poorly-documented plugins at it until something sticks.. ;)
Well, yes, we did look into a solution like that. But like you said, the problem is getting reliable notifications, amongst others. You can sometimes get around that by using a 3rd party notifications provider, like OneSignal or Pushbullet, but those charge a fee for every notification sent. And that's assuming they've got a proper plugin for the platform you're using.
I think our solution is reliable (still needs a bit of work, but that's just server-side) and without reliable notifications an app like ours is next to useless.