[NEWS] I ditched my least used Android apps for web apps, and you should too

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I ditched my least used Android apps for web apps, and you should too



Credit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority


Just about every company wants you to download its app these days, even if you probably don’t need to. Take Uber and Starbucks, for instance. I hail a cab and visit a coffee shop once in a blue moon — do those apps have to live on my device permanently? I suspect I’m not alone in this regard either. Many of us have apps that we rarely use but keep anyway — just in case.

But what if you don’t want to put up with single-use apps that drain your phone’s precious few resources? It turns out there’s actually a viable alternative many of us have turned a blind eye towards: progressive web apps.



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