You have a Rails app. Customers keep asking for a mobile app. You start looking at options.Rewriting in Swift and Kotlin means two new codebases your team doesn’t know. Hiring an agency means $80k, six months, and an app that drifts out of sync every sprint. WebView wrappers feel like a chrome-less browser, and review rejects them without native components. React Native and Flutter add a third codebase in a third language that still doesn’t talk to your Rails backend natively.You’re a Rails developer. Your team ships web features in days. Why does mobile take a year?Hotwire Native is the closest anyone has gotten. It wraps your Rails views in a native shell, with native navigation and transitions between screens. I wrote the book on it. But it solves the rendering problem, not the shipping problem. You still have to open Xcode and Android Studio. You still have to learn enough Swift and Kotlin to be dangerous. And you still have to figure out everything that happens between “it runs…
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