Name: Capacitor
Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)

Capacitor enables web developers to easily build iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with web technologies in a single code base.

NeuroDual is a single React + Vite codebase that ships to the web, Android and iOS through Capacitor. When we need to go native, writing our own plugin is straightforward: handwriting recognition, high refresh rate, immersive mode, thermal monitoring and a few timing-critical controls each live as a small custom plugin next to the web code.

Profiling WebView performance on low-end Android phones still takes some effort; better built-in tooling for frame timing would help.

We looked at React Native and Flutter. Capacitor let us keep one web UI, and the web version of the app, instead of maintaining a second UI layer for mobile.

I had a canvas game in a single HTML file and needed it on the App Store without rewriting it natively. That's exactly the job it did, and it's a real one - the alternative was learning Swift or shipping nothing. Worth knowing it removes the rewrite, not the release: you're still in Xcode, signing, and App Store Connect afterwards.

Capacitor allowed as to use the same codebase as our web and desktop platforms, and having to write almost no native code along the way. That way, we can reuse and share vast amounts of components and functions between our different platforms and not write any duplicate code – it's magic!

Pretty much the only quick way to convert your web apps to mobile apps while adding some native functionality.

We can make our app for every platfrom with one codebase with a well-known envinroment.

Capacitor

Convert an existing Web Framework project to native mobile

Convert an existing Web Framework project to native mobile

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