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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by amelius on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:05PM (#14413014)
Sorry, I'm fully aware of what V8 is (I actually embedded V8 once myself). By "V8 engine", I meant an engine containing V8, among other things such as a renderer. Bad wording, my mistake.
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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by eropple on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:38PM (#14413259)
React Native doesn't contain a renderer in the Chrome-y sense of the term, to the best of my knowledge. It wraps native APIs instead. Am I missing something?
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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by amelius on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:41AM (#14416454)
Well, eventually Chrome also calls native APIs to perform the rendering.
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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by eropple on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:50PM (#14418457)
You're stretching. Chrome calls native APIs to render a rasterized view. React Native calls native APIs to render native widgets in a native window, i.e. an Android activity.
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