Turbo Native in 15 minutes

Learn how to get up and running with Turbo Native on iOS in 15 minutes. All you need to get started is a free copy of Xcode downloaded from the App Store.
I'll walk through adding the turbo-ios Swift package, wiring up a navigation controller, and handling link clicks. I also show how you can make your web content feel a little more at home on iOS.
Want to learn more about Turbo Native? I wrote a 6-part blog series on building hybrid iOS apps. I cover authentication, the JavaScript bridge, push notifications, and more.
👉 masilotti.com/turbo-ios/

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[@artificemm]

Thank you Joe, it was really helpful! At least for me is an eye opener to continue doing full stack rails whenever possible. Very nice work!

[@joemasilotti]

Keeping as much logic in the server is always the goal. I’m hoping to do another video on exactly that, soon!

[@BrunoBonamin]

This is fantastic. It also helps clear out how Turbo Native looks and feel in an iOS app. As someone who's not well versed in iOS development, I couldn't really tell before what the difference between a webview wrapping the whole app incl. navigation vs webview + native navigation meant, but now I do! This feels so much closer to native. Thanks!

[@joemasilotti]

Thanks Bruno! Glad it was helpful. Check out my crash course on Swift (for Ruby developers) to pick up just enough Swift for Turbo Native development.

[@tjbihh]

Really useful and clear - thank you!🙂

[@limitlesslol]

Great video! 🚀 Straight to the point and gives a good starting position for someone like me who hasn’t used Turbo Native yet. Thanks!

[@joemasilotti]

Glad to hear it was helpful! Thanks for viewing.

[@zackgilbertkreiling2344]

This is 🔥, Joe! Super helpful. Thank you!

[@joemasilotti]

Glad to hear it, Zack!

[@dfriis]

Thank you so much for sharing this! Super clear and helpful 🙏

[@joemasilotti]

Glad to hear it was helpful!

[@youngbloodcyb]

Love it! I'm excited to try this out on my own. I've been wanting to build an iOS app but didn't want to use something other than Rails for my server

[@joemasilotti]

Turbo Native should be perfect then!

[@stevefarnworth]

Great intro to it!

[@joemasilotti]

Thanks Steve!

[@tomasvalent3876]

legend 💪

[@lancy981]

Which Xcode theme and font are you using? Looks neat.

[@joemasilotti]

Thanks! I'm running the base16 color scheme with the Inconsolata font.
• github.com/kreeger/base16-xcode
• fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata

[@prodbyindigo]

thanks awesome video!

[@joemasilotti]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. :D

[@knagode85]

Well done!

[@joemasilotti]

Thank you! 😄

[@darkamenosa03]

Wow! Thank you, Joe! Quick question, will there any Anroid support soon?

[@joemasilotti]

Turbo Native has an Android library that matches most of the functionality of the iOS one. Personally, I don't work in Android much. github.com/hotwired/turbo-android

[@seriouslyiknowhowtoread]

how do you do logins !!

[@pedroa5720]

Amazing tool, can be used with react native too?

[@joemasilotti]

I think you’ll have to choose between the two frameworks, unfortunately.

[@DomChristie]

Great introduction! I'd be interested to hear why storyboards don't work so well with turbo-ios

[@joemasilotti]

Thanks Dom! From my experience, Storyboards can help visualize flows between view controllers. But since most of a Turbo Native app is pushing the same VC with a different URL they don’t have much benefit.

[@DomChristie]

Thanks! Would there be any benefit if I wanted to display a fixed native view within the navigation view (eg an audio player that persists between visits). Seems like the docs often recommend adding these components visually rather than programmatically

[@joemasilotti]

@@DomChristie I would still probably do it programatically. But if you went Storyboard you could add the VisitableViewController as a child view controller of your custom one which might clean things up a bit.

[@SupeRails]

8:17 👏 renders localhost
11:29 clicking links works!

[@joemasilotti]

3¼ minutes - new record! 😄

[@PNUK]

This was awesome. But damn I just get a white screen trying to access my ruby.

[@joemasilotti]

At which step? Are there any errors in your server or Xcode logs?

[@PNUK]

@@joemasilotti no i think its ssl issue?

[@kwhandy]

Yeah Swift, so far she never fails to make me start new Expo app again

[@SeanLazer]

Yeah this is neat and all but Expo is the way to go here in my opinion

[@dorianmariefr]

I feel like I would need to know Swift basics

[@joemasilotti]

This should help: czcams.com/users/liveH58Tj-i2aSE

[@eshaijuekr]

🎉

[@joemasilotti]

😀

[@joemasilotti]

I uploaded the Xcode project to GitHub, complete with all code written in this video.
github.com/joemasilotti/Turbo-Native-demo