# hackers-painters/samurai-native

Bring web standards to native platform

Repository: https://github.com/hackers-painters/samurai-native
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/samurai-native
Homepage: http://hackers-painters.github.io/samurai-native/
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-09-01T06:25:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4161, "days_push": 4019, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2265, forks 381 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:32.628307+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, templating
- domain: mobile-development, cross-platform, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: html-to-native, css-layout, hybrid-apps, web-core, uikit, ios, mobile, objective-c

## Member repositories
- hackers-painters/samurai-native (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.628307+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:42:24.718734+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hackers-painters/samurai-native (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.628307+00:00, sha 8da04cca043e)
  - homepage: http://hackers-painters.github.io/samurai-native/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:39.687746+00:00, sha a4c735951104)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.