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If you’re going to convince mobile developers to use Tauri, at least invest some time in showcasing a good enough example. How do the apps do navigation? How do they store data for offline usage? How about networking? How can I access camera or hardware features?

Tauri might be the bees knees and cross platform toolkits are cool but I’m not seeing anything worthwhile in this blogpost.

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I think they'd consider that out of scope, which for me is a feature rather than a bug.

The project is really about providing the runtime, rather than batteries-included application framework as many mobile platforms provide. Perhaps they are targeting web/rust developers more than native mobile developers?

All the things you would like to see in an example have well-established ways of doing in a web application. Camera access is a good example, where the javascript way of doing is through navigator.getUserMedia(). I imagine it would be supported by Tauri where the underlying browser engine supports it. Tauri provides filesystem access as well, as you don't have that in a web page.

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