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Comment by marknutter | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone know if this is a native app, html5 app, or a hybrid of the two? I could have sworn that the previous version of this app was at least partially done in HTML5 because of the way the ui would re-render itself occasionally.

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Hybrid. You can select UI text everywhere from the message chrome to the settings page, so there's definitely HTML 5. But other parts are definitely native, like the label and account lists.

Looks native to me, sort of similar to the Google+ app.

No unified inbox though. And push notifications still don't work for me (what am I doing wrong?)

I had to go enable them in ios settings for them to show up

So there is definitely no unified inbox? That to me is a deal breaker. I couldn't tell from playing around with it if I was somehow missing a unified stream somewhere.

I'm pretty sure it's still a hybrid app, native shell with HTML for the ui, at least the inbox and mail content area are full of HTML.

The sliding out list, on the other hand, should be native code.

But overall speaking its much nicer than previous version, good job !

Just check the response time for clicking event. There's a short delay for HTML5 click (which is by design to differentiate click event and double-tap-to-zoom-in event).

My guess is that, at least the list of conversation is in HTML5 for sure. I though the message content would also be in HTML5 but it seems the "reply" icon responds very fast. Maybe some buttons were re-implemented using native code.

Pretty sure it's native, app size is too large to just be a viewer.

I don't know, but either way it's much snappier.

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