What exactly is a bubble app?

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Embarrassed to ask this…but is a bubble app like a website that resides on a server, or is it a mobile app.

Is it windows or mac specific, etc…

i have actually read a lot of information on bubble but am still not 100% certain.

A simple answer to this would go a long ways.

Thanks

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It’s a confusing topic. A Bubble app is a web app (an application that runs in a browser) that can also be wrapped as a hybrid app (a web app packaged in a native wrapper). A native app is an application usually developed with Swift/Objective-C (for iOS) or Java (for Android). Recently, you can use a framework like React Native to develop native apps as well.

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hmmm

maybe I should have asked it this way…

A bubble app either runs in a browser or can be run at the desktop level as a standalone app. Is that the proper way to look at it?

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It can run in the browser or wrapped in a native wrapper as @scott said and run on ios or android mobile, not desktop.

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I haven’t tried, but fairly confident you could turn any bubble web app into desktop app using something like Electron or Nativefier.

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Bubble is black magic.

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Swift. I’d go all in on Swift and leave Obj-C alone.

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Swift 1,000%

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