Stumbled upon the idea…

I landed on this idea last week while working on another project of mine. We wanted to publish an iOS app for the website (a bookstore) that we have, but also keep it inexpensive and easy without the burden of adding a new codebase.

Think of a glorified webview, fwiw…

…this way we could handle the UX/UI of the iOS & Android apps using our web application. Trust me, it was such a pleasure to see our web UI to reflect on all the native apps without having to build native apps again.

Turns out that there are quite a few businesses that already solve this problem. But most, if not all, use a very old and outdated wrapper like that of Phonegap or Cordova. Some others use UIKit which too was deprecated and is now being forced out of service by Apple!

So I decided to write my own wrapper using SwiftUI and quickly turned it into a service for others to make use of. This post is a Red Herring, of course, and it may not work out for everyone just yet, but you can't tell a duck from a goose, eh? Or can you? tck, tck.

–Marvin Danig