I've seen the Toast app clip pop up a few times when paying for dinner with a QR code. Seems like a neat idea and lets me avoid installing a whole app.
If they devoted a few cycles to improving mobile web development app clips would be 100% unnecessary. But a lot of money comes from the App Store.
Used one to pay for parking the other day. Was nice not to need to download an app.
I have yet to see an App Clip out in the wild
I have on a parking meter. I scanned the app clip QR-like code and a lite version of the parking app popped up for me to pay. Felt incredibly native and more trustworthy than a QR code taking me to a site.
Why?
Less visible redirects? No ugly address bar+controls?
The PWA people need to know!
No, I think they’re just an underused feature. I’m building one.
until now I never saw one.. but I like the idea to use a feature without installing the whole app.
But I think the developers must force users to use them?