[bitwize]

No.

You use native UI widgets or you gtfo. This may seem strange to us Linux folks, who are used to making do with any old UI. But Apple users are UI supertasters. If anything is a tiny bit off -- a bounding box one pixel too short, a response to button click one millisecond too laggy -- Apple users will notice, and Apple users will complain, and it will be reflected in your app's sales/metrics.

At least on iOS, it's worth it to use the native widgets.

[symlinkk]

Yeah, Snapchat would have been successful if only they used native widgets...

[copperx]

You're insane if you think that most users are like that.