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Not disingenuous at all - all the rendering code is _native_, no subtle hidden meanings. No webviews, no custom drawing, all existing platform components - that

• wvenable 8y ago
  By that argument, all the rendering code in my browser is also native. The browser takes a markup language and CSS and renders this text using native components. React Native takes smaller markup and a subset of CSS and renders it using native components. So how is that as native as you can get in comparison? I agree that layer between markup and native controls is thinner in React Native but the actual abstraction is actually very comprehensive. iOS and Android applications are constructed quite differently from each other. And React Native is itself different from that. It has an entirely different API with a whole different model for how applications are made. So much so that the platform differences are almost completely papered over. So is that native? I disagree that the idea of "native components" trumps the fact that practically everything you do in React Native is different from the underlying platform. Ultimately that seems like the least important detail. The abstraction is actually what makes React Native useful but it shouldn't be sold as "native".