Skip to Content
Hotwire Native for Rails Developers
book

Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

by Joe Masilotti
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

Chapter 5Render Native Screens with SwiftUI

In the previous chapter, we added native tabs to swap between two web views and bring back our hidden web-based navigation links. But tabs are only a small portion of the screen, located all the way at the bottom. Sometimes we want to forgo the web entirely and render the entire UI with a more user-friendly, native implementation.

A major benefit of Hotwire Native is being able to do just this—to drop down into native Swift when needed. This unlocks access to the latest iOS APIs and provides developers with a way to render fully native screens.

In this chapter, you will learn how to decide which screens to upgrade to native vs. which are better rendered in the web view. Then, you’ll build a native ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq

Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq

David B. Copeland
Rails Scales!

Rails Scales!

Cristian Planas

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9798888651858Publisher Website