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Well… its built as a demo, and we learnt a lot from it.

I'm sure we could add a button to show it on devices that wouldn't experience what it was 'designed' for… but really, we open sourced it to share some of the things we learnt along the way—not pour time into testing over various fragmented devices.




I understand your sentiment (I'm not the one voting you down) and I hope you do understand where we are coming from. The whole idea of 'using HTML5 for an app' is based on the notion that 'that way all HTML5 supporting devices should be able to use it'. Which is the one thing you missed.

I think the idea of the app is awesome, and it's good that we can read the source. It's just a bummer that I can't use it in its current state.


Yeah I understand your angle here… for us it was about building a comprehensive application, and given the time (and budget) of a real world project–we'd have made sure it was squeaky clean on Android too.


"not pour time into testing over various fragmented devices."

If this is what people would have to do, why would anyone do that over native?




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