I love Weever Apps. But they are not right for every situation. There are cheaper and potentially more advanced app options available. It all depends on your time budget and skill set available to you. In Chapter 9, Blueprint – Making an Android App out of Your Site Content we will be looking at one such alternative.
The benefit of Weever Apps is that they are just so easy to get your app up and working as we will see in the next recipe, Configuring a Weever App.
There are some less than obvious limitations however. For example, the website, weeverapps.com, makes an exciting statement about being compatible with all the major mobile operating systems. And technically speaking it is. But when you look in detail you need to pay $499 dollars for each app store submission.
So in reality the app is just an enhanced website. But it is a very convincing one. And the launch icon on your customers' device is actually a shortcut not an actual launch icon. But this is still potentially...