Someone on HN giving kudos to Windows for once. Has hell frozen over.

It would be great if this was a desktop app. That way I wouldn't need to spin up another server

At least it's not an electron app.

Every single time I see an electron app, I wish there was a way to deelectronify it and just run it as a server.

Mainly I am bitter because I run an openbsd desktop and would have a pretty good chance at getting it to run if it were a normal web app. cross platform my elbow.

There is a docker image at least. Would be cool as a standalone tool though, I kind of agree.

Well this is why there should be a custom local app that is not web accessible. Desktop apps and CLIs have there advantages, and this is one.

Unfortunately, a vast majority of WebApps are hot garbage and even the good ones can never be as functional or as performative as a native app. We have such powerful machines, but we relegate them to such a horrible method of using them.

Very few components are needed to make a bare bones web browser that is more of a vm. It would need one or more advantages over normal www browsers. Applications could be memory, and computationally heavy, it could store its data locally with some guarantees, it could run conventional web application on very crappy hardware. A new platform also offers countless opportunities to do new things or do things differently. That list is endless.

WebApps (even though I hate most of them) absolutely can be as fast as native apps. E.g.: Linear, Slack.

But it requires very careful engineering.

In my experience they are not nearly as fast.

This is great and all, but this would better be served as a desktop app with lower overhead.

They could have written a MacOS and Windows app to go along with their web app with React Native but didn't. Such a missed opportunity

I enduro using my phone explorer: https://www.fjsoft.at/en/

It has the similar feel to iTunes for the iphone.

I'm wondering if they could get that to work with React Native for desktop apps

You'd have to run a server in the background which complicates things but otherwise it would seem to be feasible.

Great job, love seeing new desktop apps!!

It exists; but not for much longer:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

Well, there is BlueStacks...

BlueStacks seems to work great for games. Compared to Nox anyway, and even that was so cool when I first found it. I've heard of LD Player as well but haven't used it.

Is it more difficult to get non-gaming apps working?

Last I tried, many non-gaming apps do not function anymore because google identifies the device as non-physical.

I think its opt-in by the app developer, Authy (shitty company, I'm aware) does not work on Bluestacks. That's a pain, because I've used Bluestacks to migrate auth codes before.