Ruby Native

Smith Masilotti LLC

About this app

Ruby Native turns your Rails app into a real Android app. No Kotlin, no Android Studio.

This app is the demo. Open it to see what your own Rails app would look and feel like with Ruby Native, or scan a QR code to point it at an app you're building right now.

What you can do

• View the demo. Tap "View demo" to open Shelf, a book tracking app built with Rails and Ruby Native. No account, no sign-up.
• Preview your own app. Run your Rails app locally, scan the QR code Ruby Native gives you, and see it running on your phone in seconds.
• Paste a URL. Point the app at any Rails app you have running.

What the demo shows

Shelf is a normal Rails app. Every native feature below comes from a few lines of ERB and a YAML file, not from custom Android code.

• A native tab bar with Material icons: Library, Discover, Stats, and Profile
• Native app bars, with real menus and buttons instead of HTML approximations
• A native floating action button
• Haptic feedback on saves, deletes, and steppers
• Native form handling, so keyboards and submile expect• App theming, splash screen, and light and da• The in-app review promptWho this is forRails developers who want a mobile app withoutand without maintaining a separate codebase.Ruby Native works with any frontend: Turbo, Inertia, plain Rails, or whatever you already have.
Everything you see in the demo is driven from your Rails app. You keep shipping the way you always have. Your views stay your views.
About Ruby NativeRuby Native builds and signs your Android app to Google Play. You add a gem, write a YAMLfile, and run one command. You get the source ed in.

Learn more: rubynative.com

What’s new

- ruby_native preview now takes its port from PORT when that is set, matching rails server. --port still wins, and an unusable PORT falls back to 3000. Thanks, @jnstq!
- Taps feel native out of the box. In the app, the web view's gray tap flash is gone, long-pressing a button no longer selects its label, and double-tap zoom is off on links, buttons, and form controls. Pressed states you style with :active now apply instantly on touch instead of after a long hold. Both platforms, both modes.