{"id":259488,"date":"2026-05-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/i-keep-choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-own-android-apps-and-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:25:11","slug":"i-keep-choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-own-android-apps-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/i-keep-choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-own-android-apps-and-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I keep choosing the mobile web over Google&#8217;s own Android apps, and here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-android-apps\/\">I keep choosing the mobile web over Google&#8217;s own Android apps, and here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-android-apps\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-android-apps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there are five Google services I deliberately don&#8217;t open from the app drawer. Instead, I tap the URL bar in Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I dislike the apps, but for these tasks, the web is more direct and better suited to how I work.<\/p>\n<p>The apps are still on my phone, and I just stopped reaching for them.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 practical ways Google Workspace lets you work with Microsoft Office<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">What works well when handling Office files in Workspace<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"google-sheets-on-a-tablet-works-like-a-small-laptop-in-the-browser\">\n                        Google Sheets on a tablet works like a small laptop in the browser<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-mobile-app-puts-a-wall-between-you-and-the-formula-bar\">\n            The mobile app puts a wall between you and the formula bar<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-android-apps\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep choosing the mobile web over Google&#8217;s own Android apps, and here&#8217;s why https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/choosing-the-mobile-web-over-googles-android-apps\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/person-using-a-smartphone-with-google-chrome-google-docs-google-translate-and-google-news-icons-floating-around.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-259488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259494,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259488\/revisions\/259494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}