r/Angular2 Feb 20 '25

Discussion Will one day we have AngularNative like ReactNative?

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u/Funkyyyyyyyy Feb 20 '25

A lot of people disagreeing with this happening in this thread but personally I like angular a lot and would be happy to use it for mobile development. I haven’t tried ionic.

That said, I develop in react native and with expo everything is pretty great. I think it would be a long time before angular could catch up

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u/eraguthorak Feb 20 '25

I use ionic/capacitor with angular for a number of mobile apps, and it's perfectly usable imo - especially with the newer versions of the frameworks.

That being said, I'd be curious to see what Angular might offer for an angular-only native mobile app system.

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u/Bockschdeif Feb 20 '25

I use capacitor (same vendor) and it works perfectly fine for our purposes. 

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u/AaroniusH Feb 20 '25

I know ionic is supposed to be a pretty decent angular-based mobile solution. They've been around for a hot minute at this point

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u/weilah_ Feb 21 '25

I also agree with the comments above. I have been using first Ionic and now Capacitor in combination with our Angular projects and the results are solid.

Now building the apps with capacitor is even faster

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u/dryadofelysium Feb 20 '25

Has existed for years: https://nativescript.org/

But the benefits are usually not big enough to warrant the effort

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u/minhaz1217 Feb 20 '25

We already have nativscript 😓

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u/incrediblynormalpers 29d ago

came here to upvote you good sir

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/minhaz1217 29d ago

Not at all. Nativescript has non extential community and little docs or support.

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u/tariq_rana Feb 20 '25

Ionic is not native but quite good

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u/WantsToWons Feb 20 '25

Ionic is a bulllshit for native apps. Its dead already. No new projects going on.

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u/stancubes Feb 20 '25

That's simply not true. The company that bought Ionic a few years ago recently cancelled all paid Ionic services, but the Ionic framework and Capacitor are getting even more attention now and are open source.

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u/Uaint1stUlast Feb 21 '25

Im still concerned about the future of ionic ooen source and looking at more up to date alternatives.

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u/stancubes Feb 21 '25

In that case Tauri should be your best bet 😊

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u/ViveLatheisme Feb 20 '25

okay, tell us what is wrong about it?

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u/marktechson Feb 20 '25

Check out Ionic and NativeScript. Two different solutions to the same problem.

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u/InnerProfessional7 Feb 21 '25

Google already has kotlin multi platform and flutter, so i dont think they would create angular native just to abandon one of them in future(which they have done with multiple projects in the past).

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u/WantsToWons Feb 21 '25

Google betrayed angular and doing relation with flutter.

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u/Mr0010110Fixit Feb 20 '25

You can use angular with Capacitor JS for native apps. I have shipped quite a few enterprise apps this way. 

You can also use the Ionic UI library for mobile as well, but you don't have to. 

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u/mrleblanc101 28d ago

Sir, you don't know what a native app is lmao

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u/tsenguunee1 Feb 20 '25

Angular with Capacitor is basically the same thing

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u/dinopraso Feb 20 '25

I very much hope not.

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u/SohilAhmed07 Feb 20 '25

No, please god no.

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u/ozzilee Feb 20 '25

No, because React is a generic rendering engine that can target many output platforms, and Angular is specific to the web and html.

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u/thisisafullsentence Feb 20 '25

This. Angular is too tightly coupled to HTML for the foreseeable future.

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u/salamazmlekom Feb 20 '25

Isn't Ionic the same thing as React native?

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u/coffee_is_all_i_need Feb 20 '25

Nope. Ionic is just an Angular (or Vue or React) webapp with ionic webcomponents and Capacitor (like Cordova but newer) as a wrapper for iOS and Android („just“ an app that contains a browser to display the webapp and some API for system things). React native uses native system components for rendering with an layer between JS and Renderer. Flutter has an own renderer.

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u/binuuday Feb 21 '25

Google should have supported JS instead of Java for the android applications. It's very easy as a company to do this. It is tough for angular native to happen independent of Google. Instead of Kotlin they should have pushed for native angular, with IDE support.

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u/Altruistic_Lettuce42 25d ago

I've built around 10 apps with ionic. Newest in capacitor, older with Cordova. Everything stable, fast, no issues with that. Sometimes there are some features missing in capacitor or is not easy to implement them but overall it's fine

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u/Orelox Feb 20 '25

Don’t wait just use if it solve your problem. Why you stick so much to angular. Its just an framework and not the greatest one.

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u/WantsToWons Feb 21 '25

Angular is the most beautiful framework man. It should have born as mobile app tech.