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Here's the app's page on Google Play.
Seems like more than just a website wrapper.
iirc mobile safari doesn't do pwas and doesn't have a lot of the web apis
It does. I'm posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.
It does. Installing them is intentionally obtuse and is buried in the “share” menu.
...offline support?
It would definitely be a bit more annoying to program, and a bit more naggy to the user for permissions during setup I'm sure, and running in the background would take some finagling and extra work and iOS could still kill it in the background on you ... but otherwise it'd be the same.
Video uploads. If the browser tab is closed, the upload is interrupted. An app can continue running in the background.
Sure, it's possible. But you're basically turning the browser into a virtual machine and building an app on that virtual machine, jumping through a lot of weird hoops in the process. It's unnecessary. Or should be unnecessary, anyway, with a sane operating system.
A web browser is already basically a "virtual machine". You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it's closed to JVM but you get what I'm trying to say).
Yes, I know. I'm saying it should be an unnecessary layer.