Webview overhead? Thought about Flutter?

UI Builder
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Hi,
I wondered which flavour of webview the UI Builder outputs to e.g. Cordova? … or something home brewed?
Whats the overhead of the webview before I start adding my own code?

Have you considered Flutter as it compiles to native, has a low overhead, is open source, gaining popularity?

Thanks,
Steve

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Hello @Steve_Howie

UI-Builder app is a web application based on React framework. Since this is a regular web app you can render it in any native app (cordova, ionic, react-native, flutter, ios, android, etc)

We consider several platforms for integration with UI-Builder, ReactNative and Flutter are ones of them.

Regards, Vlad

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If I can express my opinion to add to your discussions?

  • Its a choice between one big player or another - FB or Google?
  • The slowness of Javascript bridge solutions will ultimately spell their downfall.
  • ReactNative is just a wrapper, despite its name, around native components.
  • Any webview/js bridge will have an appreciable overhead in size terms to be wrapped with your simple app. There’s no such thing as a small app.
  • Its a pity Google went for the Dart language. Its a kludge - neither Java or Javascript - its a big downside. React’s JS focus makes many people happy.
  • Flutter produces truly native code and does not rely on a JS interpreter and is therefore way faster.
  • Flutter has smaller code size overhead.
  • Flutter is growing in popularity and is likely to become the cross platform tool of choice IMO.

I am sure there’s a lot more to say, but I think Flutter is the future. React is going to enter a slow death faze.

Steve

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Thank you for sharing your opinion, @Steve_Howie.

Kind regards,
Mark