Cobalt a New Hybrid Framework Open Source
summary
Cobalt is an open-source hybrid app framework that embeds HTML pages inside native navigation containers (Activities/Fragments on Android, view controllers on iOS) to allow mixing native screens and WebViews. It provides a JSON event bridge with callbacks, native-styled UI components and plugins (photo picker, slideshow, geolocation, push), currently supports Android and iOS (Windows planned), and uses preloading to reduce transition jank though a small ~10 ms blink remains on Android.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Cobalt hybrid framework intro
- 1:10Hybrid framework issues
- 2:33Cobalt solution navigation
- 5:00Web-native communication
- 7:30Platform animations
- 9:17Native configuration
- 10:39Customizable components
- 12:25Plugins advanced features
- 14:09Demo and testing
- 15:53Q&A
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