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Comment by IshKebab

2 months ago

The worst one is the UK's NHS app, which is only available as an app, despite being just a webview wrapper! I have no idea what they were thinking.

Sometimes it’s a compliance thing, e.g we can only show health data if your device passes some security controls first.

What happens when you visit whatever URL is being wrapped?

  • You go to the nhs webpage and it works in the same way.

    Login is better on the iOS app as you can use touch id/faceId and not userid/password also the webpage asks for cookies as it can't seem to remember the choice

  • IME those apps often have the HTML/JS embedded, so you would have to extract the contents, host them somewhere and proxy the API calls.