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by tsmall 2953 days ago
Depending on your needs, using something like Turbolinks [1] may be a great fit. There are iOS and Android libraries that can make your web app talk to your native app so it can do things like trigger screen transitions, populate native menu or tab controls, etc. We're using a similar idea at my company and so far it's been very successful for us.

[1]: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks/#readme
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deedubaya 2953 days ago
I use Turbolinks over at HOALife.com. Mobile clients take advantage of native geolocation, camera, and photo library upload.

The web, iOS, and Android devices utilize all of the same server generated HTML + JS google maps et al. 0 to completed for both Android and iOS in maybe 30 hours because of the native API stuff I had to learn. If you don't need those native API's or know Swift/Java better, that time could be trimmed down considerably.

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thrownaway954 2953 days ago
there was a talk at RailsConf 2016 by Sam Stephenson about how Basecamp used Turbolinks to create version 3 of their, an android and ios version in 18 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA

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