Presented at geneva.rb, The Geneva Ruby Meetup, on 10 January 2024.

To use this repo

1. Clone the repo
2. In the rails folder:

• yarn
• bundle install
• rake db:create:seed
• bin/dev

3. Open the ios folder in xcode and run

Presention Notes

Intro

• I'm not an expert on this, have not yet built a real app and deployed it to the app store
• Have read and played around with many tutorials etc. Some great resources are:
  • Strada quick start
  • Turbo iOS
  • Joe Masilotti's blog
  • Joe Masilotti's Turbo Native Workshop
  • William Kennedy's blog
  • The Rails and Hotwire Codex (e-book)

What is Turbo Native and Strada ?

• Turbo ios wraps the iOS Webview in a native app
  • Turbo iOS Quick Start
• Strada bridges native components such as buttons to html / JS
  • This existed before Strada via manual config
  • Strada will likely be improved to reduce configuration code
• TurboNavigator helps with modals and will be upstreamed to Turbo iOS
• Turbo Native iOS apps are being accepted to the Apple App Store, although it is recommended to include some native components, such as a tab bar or push notifications. If it is only wrapping a webview it will likely be rejected.
• Once the app is submitted to the app store, it can be changed without a resubmission
• An alternative to ReactNative etc: just code one app and progressively enhance it to be more native.

My Experiences

• An understanding of how iOS apps are built is needed, you DO need to know how to code a basic iOS app.
• Coming from Rails, Swift and iOS doesn't have the same opinionated approach, so the different tutorials all do it differently.
• Still a lot of boilerplate and configuration, but this is changing.
• I played around a bit with Android, and it's doable, but not something I would want to do as a Hobby.