Hotwire Native: A Rails developer’s secret tool to building mobile apps

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" summary

Hotwire Native shows a concrete workflow: build one HTML/CSS screen and reuse screens across web iOS Android via a thin native wrapper, run a local Rails blog demo that signs in and navigates, and add native tabs and bridge components (alerts, confirmations) without rewriting screens. It claims no Swift or Kotlin expertise is needed and that Rails deploys push UI changes to all apps immediately — deploy Rails changes and apps update immediately. The author reports shipping a dozen app launches since 2016 and production usage at million‑user scale.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Hotwire
2. 6:03Setting up the iOS app
3. 13:19Configuring the navigator
4. 27:29Building the Android app
5. 44:42Refining the UI
6. 57:13Implementing native tabs
7. 1:16:28Building bridge components

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