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Ruby on Rails' Hotwire Native is basically augmented "plain HTML", and requires practically zero effort for Android and iPhone support.

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How genuine are you being here? Because I've tried doing native apps using LiveView Native and it is ROUGH. The reason I ask is because I would consider using Hotwire Native for a future project if it really is good.

I think the devil is in the details. There are some recent Rails conference talks on YouTube about adding "native" support.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbMt_4STWIo

As the other commenter said, it may not be as "native" as you'd like.

I remember using the Hey app and being amazed at how well it worked (and this wasn't Hotwire Native at the time, I think) and I'm kind of sensitive to mobile apps not working as expected.

I don't know anything about React Native aside from my dislike for the complexity of React and how it perverts web operability, not to mention it is epically overkill for most use cases.

Yeah but the UI is webviews. It's not as native as React Native.

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