Closed ArthurSmid closed 3 years ago
Some back-story: The current app at http://littlehelpbook.com is a PWA and you can install it on your PC or Mobile thru the browser
It's also a web assembly app with full client-side data caching. So you could install it on a tablet run it once, disconnect it from the internet and it would still (probably not tested) work as a kiosk. More work is needed for offline support, closing the app today would flush the cache.
PWAs are also supported by both Apple and Google apps stores and even xbox and windows. So we could (with some extra effort) put this as a free app in the mobile app stores.
hope that helps in your explorations of options @ArthurSmid
It seems that for a minimum viable product this question is easy to answer: web app.
The question gets to the eventuality of the Little Help Book being accessed by a person in need when they don't have access to the internet. And that could be the main benefit of a downloadable mobile app, the person in need would have access to the database of help resources whether or not they had an internet connection at the moment.
Or we could plan to make this a progressive web app from the beginning:
https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/web-development/what-is-the-difference-between-a-mobile-app-and-a-web-app/
For those who are new to progressive web apps, this could be a helpful first exercise: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/your-first-pwapp/#0