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Push-notifications have recently become one of the essential attributes of mobile applications. Thus, according to a study by Accengage, 7.8% of mobile users respond to these kinds of messages, which means an impressive potential increase to the existing conversion rates of your software. Generally speaking, push technology is beneficial in that it gives the user targeted information that may be useful to them individually.

For many people, a smartphone has long become the main source of information, entertainment, and various services. Web resource owners should definitely keep up with such tendencies, providing Android & iOS users with a smooth performance that doesn’t consume too many resources. That is exactly the reason why the largest market players started actively introducing PWAs – progressive web apps. However, it’s not all about performance. A picture tells a thousand words, as they say, so the user interface of any PWA solution is the first and foremost thing to impact users that launch the app for the time ever.

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a popular software concept introduced in 2015 by Google that brought regular web apps on desktop and mobile to a whole new level. Employing Service Workers, Web App manifest, push-notifications, HTTPS, App Shell, etc., Google’s PWA policies imply these advanced solutions to strictly fit the following standards

Way back in primary school, you probably had to work on a group project at some point. Your teacher would have put you in a group with 4–5 other students, and given you an assignment, leaving you to divvy up the work yourselves. For a lot of people, this was a really frustrating process. It seemed like there was always at least one kid who didn’t do their work, or one that was way too controlling. Yet, you still had to figure out a way to pull it all together.

Native applications were once the only existing format of mobile software solutions. They were created for specific platforms, taking into account specific design requirements, Google Play/App Store policies, and the nuances of the device hardware. Today, there is a worthy alternative to this basic type of apps – Progressive Web Apps. First introduced by Google in 2015, these are characterized by high performance, they practically don’t consume storage device memory, are compatible with any OS, and are better promoted through the Google search engine.

Angular is among the most popular JS frameworks for developing websites, web apps & mobile apps (for iPhone and Android) in the world. Currently, Angular has but one rival in terms of popularity – a prominent solution from the Facebook developers, React, which is, however, a library rather than a fully-featured framework. Below, we get into more detail about all the nuances of developing an application in Angular and share our own experience with this tool.