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TLDR: Serve XML from a server and get "dynamic" native apps

• adamstep 4y ago
  “Native” in this case refers to the fact that the interface is rendered using the system UI libraries. So you get a native feel for things like scrolling, navigation, gestures, etc. This isn’t possible (or really difficult) using web technologies (HTML and JS)
  • dickersnoodle 4y ago
    This is the same B.S. definition-stretching that you see in a bunch of React Native posts.
• ljlolel 4y ago
  “Dynamic” “native” apps
  • IIsi50MHz 4y ago
    I was hoping this would be like Hypercard (without much real hope, of course), allowing users to create their own native 'apps' with perhaps some safety limitations. That would be both dynamic and native, though any scriptable actions would be performant.
• Cyberdog 4y ago
  So it’s a web app with new syntax. People who use the term “native app” incorrectly like this should… face difficult circumstances.
  • Kiro 4y ago
    It is native though. You misunderstand what this is.
    • Cyberdog 4y ago
      My perspective is that if an app is not directly using a platform’s APIs, it is not native to that platform. Feel free to explain to me and others how this take is wrong and how something written in XML could be a native app on, say, iOS.
      • Kiro 4y ago
        It is using the platform's API directly and renders native components. The XML is just an abstraction layer on top of that and not a web wrapper like you're implying. It's not using any WebView.
        • Cyberdog 4y ago
          I’m not saying it’s a WebView, but obviously it works extremely similarly. It is not a native app framework.
          • Kiro 4y ago
            It's native by all definitions of it. It calls native APIs, renders native system elements and what you get is indistinguishable from an app written in Swift or Kotlin down to the machine code displaying it.
            • zenosmosis 4y ago
              The "XML is just an abstraction layer" part is exactly what makes it not native. It's a big abstraction layer, it uses React under the hood, it's not native. It's easy, instead. It may render native components, but those components are still controlled by the non-native runtime, thus extra baggage.
              • Kiro 4y ago
                So you think "it’s a web app with new syntax" is an accurate description? That's what we're discussing.