972: These Things Make Your App Feel Like Crap on Mobile

Your mobile apps might feel like crap. And we're gonna tell you what are the main things that make a mobile app feel worse than a native mobile app. All of our pet peeves, all of the things that web developers could be doing better to improve their web apps on mobile. My name is Scott Tolinski. I'm a developer from Denver. With me, as always, is Wes Bos. What's up, Wes? Hey. I I'm excited to talk about this because, like, I was talking to some people from, actually, from Google, and they're just like, like, why are everyone is still so hung up on, like, native being better? And there's some clear things like access to APIs and Sure. And whatnot. But I think, like, there's a lot of the reason why people like a mobile app better is simply just because it doesn't feel janky. And I I watch my kids use websites sometimes, and it's just like, oh my gosh. What have we done? You know? They're clicking the wrong thing. Yeah. They're three d touching everything. They're they're highlighting text by accident. It's just it's a nightmare. And these things are all fixable if you if you know what you're doing. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. That's right. And a lot of these things can be fixed with Sentry. This episode is presented by Sentry at sentry.io/syntax. I know you get two months for free. Use the coupon code tasty treat, all lowercase, all one word. But Sentry is really cool for a lot of these things like, rage click detection. Man, if you click a button a whole bunch of times, Sentry will alert you that, hey, your users are rage clicking this button and that's usually for a number of reasons. Your app is not responsive. Your app isn't, showing the user what it's doing. It's not making the button disabled while it's doing something. There's a number of reasons. As well. Do you know the difference between a dead click and a rage click, Scott? Tell me. A little trivia? School me. Speak on that. So a rage click is what you just expect explain. Right? People clicking over and over and over again. And a dead click is when somebody clicks something and there is no nothing happens after there's a certain threshold. I think it's, like, two hundred fifty milliseconds. So if there's no, like, UI that has has updated or there's no network detection, that has has been fired off, you know, there's you can't tell that something happened. That's that's called a dead click. So either literally nothing happened or you have like like we're talking about today, your UI sucks, and and you need to know that something's going on. And and maybe you don't have things wired up properly or your UI is is lacking. And the coolest part about all of this, you get access to a session replay which shows the …