[brigadier132]

Gonna say something controversial, the future of mobile apps is going to be webviews. It's already the case for desktop. iPhones are getting cpus that are close to desktop CPUs from 5 years ago and they can run 3d games.

[andix]

Most mobile apps are already hybrid apps. It's just so much easier to develop it, especially if you already have a web app and some frontend code that can be reused.

Most apps don't need many native features, and the native app that wraps the web view can be quite minimal. Developing it directly in Xcode and android studio is usually easier than using some kind of multi platform abstraction like react native, flutter, xamarin, ...

Native apps mostly became something for companies with a big development budget >1m$ per year, or much more. Like Uber, Meta, Twitter and so on.

A good native app may be superior, but the gap is not huge. With a limited budget the hybrid app is probably going to be much better than the native app.

Another benefit of the web app approach: users can use it even without installing it, just in their mobile browser (maybe with limited functionality).

[DANmode]

This.

If reuse across platforms is of interest, a proper crossplatform webapp is a great answer.

[petabytes]

Ive written a few android apps in webview, and I don't want to do it ever again. For small apps maybe, but large scale apps in JavaScript is a nightmare to maintain.

[dhrubajyotidas]

there is small issue with webview on android https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128974...

in my experience build pwa if low budget, build native android and ios if hight budget, development experienct is much nicer with android studio for android and xcode for ios, simple multi page application with vanila js is much nicer for pwa on web