Making Mobile Web Apps Better with Web APIs
summary
The talk examines using Web APIs—Service Worker with Workbox, IndexedDB, and the Credential API/Smart Lock—to improve mobile web apps. It reports concrete trade-offs: Workbox enables offline and push but can cause cache bloat (an observed 16 GB cache leak), IndexedDB serves UI data quickly (~130 ms for 300 items), and Credential API/Smart Lock enable one‑tap sign‑in on Android though some APIs are Android‑centric and fragile.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:22Native features in web apps
- 6:05Install PWA to home screen
- 10:17Offline with Service Worker
- 13:04Cache limits
- 14:50Screen orientation & fullscreen
- 15:52Background audio control
- 16:36Simplify auth with Credential Management
- 19:46YOLO and Smart Lock
- 21:13Summary: PWA vs native
- 22:40PWA trends on Android
- 23:23Q&A
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