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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by hellisothers on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:16PM (#22185318)
One thing I feel is overlooked in these discussions is WebView UI performance isn’t as good as native. You’ll always notice a difference scrolling a list natively vs on web. It just _feels_ different, same goes for all the other micro-interactions if pushing/popping views.
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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by AgloeDreams on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:02PM (#22185785)
This. And if you compare it with the very best say, iOS has to offer in touch interaction it's just different worlds. Look at the multitasking and swipe interaction on an iPad pro at 120Hz. You just can't even think of that world.

I have a funny feeling that Apple's next big developer move on the iPhone is to enable those types of smooth, cancelable interactions out of the box in Xcode via new SwiftUI components just for it. When they make it easy and clear, people will use it and then the gap will widen.

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