r/capacitor

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Hey everyone 👋

As you may know, I work as a DevRel at Capawesome, and a big part of my job is building demo apps to help developers understand how to use Capacitor plugins to create great mobile experiences.

Since Capacitor is framework-agnostic, every time I start a new demo app I run into the same question:
Should I build it with a framework (Angular/React/Vue/etc.) or keep it vanilla JS?

In my experience, using a framework makes the project easier to structure and follow. At the same time, I worry that choosing a specific framework might discourage people who don’t use it from even checking out the demo—even though the plugin integration itself is framework-agnostic.

So I’d really love your input:

• What do you prefer for demo apps?
• Do you actually use demo apps when evaluating tools?
• What makes a demo app truly useful for you?

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate any feedback 🙌

Has anyone used Capacitor to make their web app into an app that they put on the app store?

Nearly finished with my web app that I want to make a full app and add to app stores. Any videos or ways to do it that's simple or is it tricky to do?

Hello there,

I want to send push-notifications to my app via my own server without the use of firebase.
Is there any plugin out there already archieving this, or am I down on my luck and have to write my own native code for iOS/Android?

My use-case is a hardware device, that can send data via ble to the app, but that obviously does not work when the app is in background/closed. So the device sends its data to my server instead. The server then notifies the mobile device and shows the notification. If the app is in foreground normal ble communication is resumed.

As security, availability and ai-free-tech is much of a concern here, using firebase or any google-server is not an option.

Hi there,
I'm developing a game and have added some haptic feedback. Unfortunately, out of all the patterns I tried, I could only get a short double-pulse and a single long-pulse to actually do anything on my Pixel 8 test device. I will also roll out to iOS eventually, but not paying Apple until I've seen if people are interested in my game.

Are there are Capacitor plugins which give more control over haptic feedback?

Worked:

• notification(Success) -> double short pulse
• notification(Error) -> double short pulse
• notification(Warning) -> single long pulse

Didn’t work:

• vibrate(duration)
• impact(Light|Medium|Heavy)
• selectionStart/selectionChanged/selectionEnd

Thank you!
Dax.

Even I've added splash screen properly.

Help me!