SpiderBasic

Hi there,

just stumbled over Tauri https://tauri.app. It's a tool to pack web-apps like the ones from SpiderBasic into "native" Apps.

I don't want to discuss the why. And yes, I know PureBasic (and love it).
There are cases, when putting a website inside a native app has several advantages.

It would be a great addition to SpiderBasic. Of course, depending on the amount of work

I coded a container for MacOS and iOS a while back doing something similar. It is mostly untested and more like a proof of concept.

https://github.com/foodsnacker/htmlfive-container

whats the advantage over cordova, which already supported for android/ios, cordova CAN build win8.1+ and osx apps too

Tauri requires Rust to be installed. I don't like that very much. The system also seems to me to be more extensive and complicated than it should be.

I would rather recommend the lightweight Neutralinojs.

Thanks for your answers!

plouf wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:27 pm whats the advantage over cordova, which already supported for android/ios, cordova CAN build win8.1+ and osx apps too

I couldn't get it to work before, will try again after christmas.
How big is the smallest possible binary with cordova?

Peter wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 6:32 pm Tauri requires Rust to be installed. I don't like that very much. The system also seems to me to be more extensive and complicated than it should be.

I would rather recommend the lightweight Neutralinojs.

I will have a look into Neutralinojs, but don't want to install another build system. Already have plenty of them :-/

I posted my MacOS/iOS-solution above, which comes in at less than a mb. Actually, these may be coded for Android, Linux, Windows as well.
Maybe there is even less code necessary, if you just add a WebGadget in a PureBasic-App and display the website this way. But I doubt, all things created with Spiderbasic will run well inside a mere WebGadget.

-> maybe, an admin can move this to the appropriate section. Feature Request is a bit too much for this, thanks

jamirokwai wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:23 pmI will have a look into Neutralinojs, but don't want to install another build system. Already have plenty of them :-/

Yes, of course that's your decision. I just wanted to point out that NeutralinoJs is, in my humble opinion, a simpler system than Tauri.

Here are the file sizes with a HelloWord sample code in SpiderBasic: