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PWA and TWA: Recent Development Trends

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Computer Science – CACIC 2019 (CACIC 2019)

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The continuous growth of the computing power of mobile devices and their relative low cost are some of the reasons for their great expansion. Currently, for example, in Argentina 9 out of 10 people own a smartphone. This trend, locally and globally, has been accompanied by the evolution of the software industry for these devices with the leadership of two operating systems: Android and iOS. This segmentation has generated the need to have mobile applications for both platforms and consequently different development approaches have emerged in response to this need.

This paper presents the analysis of a recently emerged approach to mobile application development, called Progressive Web Applications or PWA, as a novel alternative to existing approaches. Additionally, the basics of TWA (Trusted Web Activities), used as a complement to PWA, are also introduced.

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  1. Instituto de Investigación en Informática LIDI (III-LIDI), Facultad de Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Verónica Aguirre, Lisandro Delía, Pablo Thomas, Leonardo Corbalán, Germán Cáseres & Juan Fernández Sosa

  2. Centro Asociado a la Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC), La Plata, Argentina

    Verónica Aguirre, Lisandro Delía, Pablo Thomas, Leonardo Corbalán, Germán Cáseres & Juan Fernández Sosa

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Aguirre, V., Delía, L., Thomas, P., Corbalán, L., Cáseres, G., Sosa, J.F. (2020). PWA and TWA: Recent Development Trends. In: Pesado, P., Arroyo, M. (eds) Computer Science – CACIC 2019. CACIC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48325-8_14

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