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by themihai 3312 days ago
Is there any such toolkit? What exactly is "platform's 'primitive views'"? Usually the "native" implementations are actually bindings to the native APIs which require heroic courage(a lot of manual tweaking), not to mention that you still need to catch up/update your bindings when these APIs change.
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RubenSandwich 3312 days ago
I would say that there is. Both Xamerian and React Native use the platforms Native views: UIView on iOS and View on Android. I agree that they are just bindings but that is easier then having to reimplement them as they all have small quirks especially when accessibility comes into play. I can't speak of Xamerian but I've written some of those Native bindings for React Native and would not call it requiring 'heroic courage'. It's actually quite easy and if you were on the Native side you'd have to make those changes anyway because those APIs changed.
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Asooka 3312 days ago
WxWidgets are kind of that in C++ land at least. I know they use GTK on Linux and native widgets on Windows. They might not have good OSX support though.
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