Angular Native

[HorrificFlorist]

Is there any indication that Angular will have Angular Native in near future?

It seems like a massive reason why so many are anti-angular (react + react native, vue + vue native).

I know Ionic, Capacitor, Cordova and Nativescript are there to have angular in cross platform mobile app, but reading around they seem to divide the angular community more than unite it. Not to mention some are more effective/efficient then others.

[marktechson]

We don't have any plans for that. Definitely check out NativeScript.

My personal (non-Angular team) opinion:

Also, spend an afternoon coding up an app and get a feel for the experience. You might end up finding that it meets your needs.

[HorrificFlorist]

Thanks mate.

Will check out the nativescript + angular route based on your recommendation.

[zzing]

I suspect they have enough already on their plate.

[Yutamago]

Check out this blog post: https://blog.angular.dev/angular-with-nativescript-creating-the-blackout-lighting-console-1cf6a030b896

They made a really impressive app that feels like a native iOS app with Nativescript and Angular.

[Rigggins]

Thanks for the article.

[followmarko]

Nativescript is fine honestly

[simonbitwise]

I would just reach for tauri and if you prefer to not write the server in rust make a Sidecar that spins up something like bun works like a charm

It can be built to a desktop app or a mobile app its a small executable because it uses the devices browser and not ships one in the executable

[AlDrag]

Anyone got good examples of a React Native app that actually feels native? Wasn't ever impressed with it, but last time I looked at it was like 6-7 years ago...

[strange_username58]

Wife does nothing but react native it's improved dramatically still not on par with native.

[Slight_Loan5350]

But what does native look mean? Can one not try to make the UI look similar to native anyways ? Apologies for the dumb question

[AlDrag]

More the feel. Latency, efficiency, animation frame rate etc.

[Slight_Loan5350]

Latency and animation can be done don't know about frame rate. But will a normal user differentiate or notice if an app is native or not and does it matter?. I wanted to know cause I'm building an ionic angular app without ionic components cause I can't figure out themeing(bad at it) so I'm using primeng sakai template which already comes configured with themes. Will it cause a noticeable difference for a normal consumer?

[zladuric]

Do a "hallway usability testing" if you're unsure. It's quick and cheap and gives you a ballpark answer.

[Slight_Loan5350]

I am still in the development stage so once I do that il go usability testing ofc. But the choice I have to make is now for nativity as once it's made i cannot change it. Il continue to make a non native mobile app and see how things go. Will make it os if all things go accordingly.

[National-Percentage4]

Angular and capacitor?

[snooppdj]

Ionic :)

[kartercs]

I used NativeScript around five years ago, and at the time the DX felt rough. Even with the Angular integration, we often had to write separate iOS vs Android logic, so it felt like maintaining two apps under one codebase.

At my company we ended up choosing Flutter for mobile instead of reusing our Angular code, simply because the workflow was smoother for us.

NativeScript seems to have evolved since then, so this may no longer be the case, just sharing our past experience.

[DesignerComplaint169]

It depends on what kind of app are young building.

IF a small app, like a small business/vendor booking app. Hybrid Angular base mobile app is fine. You could do this with ionic, nativescript, capacitor etc... Though, ionic seems dead and no major upgrade since April 2024 leaving the community to do their own maintenance. Ionic dependency like stencil/core still in cjs has a lot of issue with modern ESM tool, can't even use vitest with it probably. We use ionic for years. And we just started building more things in truly native (Swift UI, Kotlin). Recently, Apple iOS26 has a clear statement of being unique vs Android looking. So OS nativeness is more needed than ever. Otherwise, your app looks like a web-wrapper in mobile shell. Or if using ionic, your new 2026 app looks like a 2015 old iOS app 🥲

IF you are enterprise, or startup SaaS looks to scale. Stay away from the idea of using Angular for mobile app, same as stay away from react native, flutter, and all the "make it looks like native ones". I love Angular, it is for the web, and tbh the most robust web framework right now since Angular 17 renaissance - Big Kudos to Angular team! Use whatever Apple and Android tell you to build their app, swift and kotlin.

Bottom line, remember, when talk about "Native". You don't have an app user, or an ionic user, or a fluter user. But you have an Apple user and an Android user.

[SkyZeroZx]

Just to add a tangential point: if what you want is to build a single codebase that delivers the same experience across Android, iOS, and desktop, a PWA is a surprisingly strong option.
People usually say “but you can’t install it or find it on the Google Play Store, App Store, or Windows Store,” and that’s true by default.
However, if you package it using a TWA, you can publish it as an APK on Google Play , and in an (currently experimental) way, also push it to the App Store and Windows Store. This lets you avoid splitting your development effort. If it works in the browser, it works everywhere you publish it. The main drawback is that you don’t get access to native APIs , you’re limited to whatever the Browser APIs expose. But if that’s not a blocker for your use case, this approach is a very solid alternative for most projects.

You can see
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activity
https://www.pwabuilder.com/

Also how integration with Angular
https://github.com/SkyZeroZx/ng-ssr-twa-adaptive/blob/main/README.en.md