"Islands" of hotwire in a native app?

@radanskoric Radan Skorić
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:37:09 +0000

@benjamin-hull , Hotwire Native is not a framework that takes over your native code, it’s more like a library wrapped around a webview. Which means that you have full control over how it’s used. The minimal setup to get started with required very minimal native code. But there’s nothing preventing your from expanding the native code so that the native code drives most of the UI and Hotwire Native is constrained just to specific sections of the UI.

And even if you’re using HwN to drive the navigation, it makes it pretty easy to make some screens fully native: Hotwire Native Overview: Native Screens

In short, yes, HwN is easily flexible enough to do what you ask.