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Twitter.com's HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained

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Post by heavyset_go »

solarkraft wrote: post #155
heavyset_go wrote: post #141

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Last time I used Qt Quick, native looking widgets were outside of its scope. You're meant to define the styling you want for all of your widgets, and Qt will render them consistently across platforms.

Out of scope for Qt Quick, perfectly in scope for Qt Quick controls. It looks very native on all the platforms I’ve tried, likely due to their experience with Qt Widgets.

Nice, thanks for pointing this out. Qt Quick Controls weren't around, or at least weren't available on the platforms I was developing against, like 9 years ago.

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Post by jonplackett »

gorbypark wrote: post #138
jonplackett wrote: post #121

So why isn't React Native for web, just, you know, React? What's the difference and why?

React-native-web is more or less a component library that re-creates react-native's API. Some will disagree, but react-native's API is much nicer and cleaner than HTML and CSS. It's like they took the best parts of HTML and CSS and left out the 30 years of cruft. The idea is that since react and react-native API's differ so much, it's not really feasible to have one code base cover native and the web. React-native an…

Thanks for the description! I’ll have to check it out… only just got really comfortable making react web apps.

If you’re not making an app would you still use react native web over old stool react for the reasons above?

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

solarkraft wrote: post #154
nyanpasu64 wrote: post #129

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Judging from KDE's Kirigami apps and Subsurface on Android, I would not describe Qt Quick apps as native-performing or feeling.

Because you’re judging one that don’t try. There are demos of Qt Quick apps emulating Android very closely.

What Qt Quick Controls 2 demos on Android would you recommend? Are they pre-built or do they require compiling myself?
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