hackers-painters/samurai-native

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2265 stars · 381 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

samurai-native is a framework that lets you build native iOS apps using HTML and CSS, rendering web-standard markup into native UIKit components via its own Web-Core. It supports native components like UICollectionView directly in HTML, with Android support planned but never delivered.

Use cases

• build native ios apps with html and css
• render html templates as native uikit views
• use uicollectionview from html markup
• apply css layout to native mobile ui
• hybrid native and html components in one app

When to choose

• you maintain a legacy iOS codebase already built with samurai-native
• you want HTML/CSS markup rendered as true native UIKit views on iOS

When to avoid

• you need Android support - it was never implemented
• you are starting a new project - use React Native or Flutter instead
• you need an actively maintained framework - the last release was 2015

Facets

framework · maturity abandoned

ui-components frontend-framework templating mobile-development cross-platform web-development html-to-native css-layout hybrid-apps web-core uikit ios mobile objective-c

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