Push notifications from web application?

Hello allI am currently in the process of planning to build an app with 3 other people, two of us are developers with a lot of web application/api programming under the belt (.NET C#). We have very limited experience with coding mobile apps, creating a bit of a learning curve. It’s possible but will obviously take a lot longer.We would prefer to create a web app due to these reasons, but we are on the fence about push notifications. The app will definitely need to send to smartphones and I’m having trouble understanding if it’s possible to do from a web app on mobile devices?I see chrome supports it, but there there might be problems on iOS? The app HAS to work properly on both android and iOS.Is push notifications possible from a web app on both android and iOS these days?I also played around with react native/Xamarin and quickly found out you can simply add a 100% width/height webview to an app and hardcode your web app address. It seems to show up properly when I test it on my android phone (obviously the web app is fully responsive).So my question is. Why would I not just wrap my web application in a webview in react native and say “there’s your mobile app”? Are there any caveats to doing this that I don’t know? via /r/csharp https://ift.tt/2Oh5Sa9