You still need to pay $99 to Apple (every year). Ruby Native doesn't replace your accounts, it just augments them.

Yep! Ruby Native actually uses Hotwire Native under the hood in some scenarios.

Any plans to support Android? It's not always possible to be iOS-only.

Android is on the roadmap! I'm figuring out the best API and DX first. Once that's solidified, Android will follow.

Got it, thanks! Will do.

Or, why I threw away 20,000+ lines of working code and started over with nothing.

For the past few weeks I ran an experiment: build something real, almost entirely with AI. Here’s what I learned, what’s shifting in how I think about code, and what I’m honestly terrified about.

Have you tried Hotwire Native yet? In my (extremely biased) opinion, it truly does bring “the ease of Rails development to native mobile app development”.

https://native.hotwired.dev/

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/build-mobile-apps-the-rai...

To start, you build a standard Rails web app, enabling you to interact with your customers. When you want to build that iOS and Android app, Hotwire Native makes it easy to create an app store app for each. From there, you can add native features as you need, as fast or ask slow as you like.

> The author's AppVersion class is so nicely done, it's nuts how succinct eg the compare implementation is.

Why thank you! :D

This would be awesome as a random avatar generator!

I'm reading hackernews on this app called glider that has almost that, just not exactly invaders

Creator here - thanks for posting! If anyone has any questions on the components or how to integrate them, I'm happy to help.

That's right! It has a few native buttons that interact with the web view, like navigating between days and submitting forms.