The Franconian
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I recently encountered a frustrating issue with my surveillance camera app: after a certain time, it stopped receiving notifications. After reaching out to the developer multiple times without success, I stumbled upon a little-known Android quirk—the platform limits the number of notifications an app can display to 24. Once this limit is reached, no new notifications come through. As a temporary fix, I built a small app to automatically clear old notifications, ensuring I never miss an alert. In this article, I’ll share my journey of discovering this limitation and the DIY solution I created to work around it.

After realizing that PWAs couldn’t fully meet my mobile project’s needs, I turned to WebView as a solution. Unlike hybrid frameworks, which often come with unnecessary overhead, WebView allows me to integrate my web application directly into a native mobile project. This approach gives me the flexibility to decide how much logic runs in the web environment versus the native one, all while maintaining a lightweight architecture. In this article, I’ll share how WebView has become my go-to solution for bridging web and native development, offering the best of both worlds without the complexity of hybrid frameworks.