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Re:Show HN: Retool Mobile by blitz_skull on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:13PM (#34446414)
I’m trying to understand, and forgive me, maybe the core Retool product explains this better—how is this different from something like Capacitor/Ionic or React Native?
Re:Show HN: Retool Mobile by shawiz on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:38PM (#34446661)
Retool Mobile is built on top of React Native. We build a higher level of abstraction so you can build the UI / running queries much easier than building it from scratch, and still give you the option to write code and customize everything similar to building an app in React Native.
Re:Show HN: Retool Mobile by ohgodplsno on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:47AM (#34450514)
So what you're saying is that despite saying in your ad copy that you ship "native" apps, you ship the utter piece of crap that is React Native, and users will be faced with lists that stutter the moment there's more than twenty items in it because RecyclerViews are too complicated of a concept for RN.

Thanks for guaranteeing me consulting work on rewriting those apps in the near future I guess ?

Re:Show HN: Retool Mobile by paxys on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:19PM (#34446484)
All of those are a lot lower level. Retool focuses on drag-and-drop UI and making connections to databases and external services.