Building hybrid apps; is it even possible?

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@woniesong: I am working on the very same thing (building a Meteor Cordova app with native iOS extensions), as described here:

Building a hybrid Meteor Cordova app: share experiences?

Hi guys, I’m trying to build a (maybe quite sophisticated?) hybrid Meteor Cordova app. The idea is to use native code where it seems to be appropriate, i.e. where I’m not able to accomplish my goals using HTML5 only. As I am a single developer with limited time, I want to focus these UI improvements on iOS first (since I really like Swift, but don’t like Java that much), and rely on the pure HTML5 variant for Android. For iOS, I started with the Xcode template generated by Meteor and added my …

I haven’t read through this whole thread yet, but regarding the re-usage of the web view, I’ve described how I did this in the thread linked above. I would be interested in sharing experiences on this, as this is indeed quite challenging.

At the moment, I am trying to find a solution to send messages from the web view to my native code, as described here:

Best way to send messages from Cordova to a native iOS app?

For my hybrid Cordova app, I need a way to send messages from the Meteor web app over to the native iOS side. I looked around, but could not find existing code for this. The only solution I see so far, is to implement a custom Cordova package, and deal with the message handling myself. Did anybody find another solution? If a custom plugin should be the only viable option, I am wondering how to add this custom Cordova plugin to my app. According to Meteor docs, there are only two ways available: …

How did you solve this?

PS: On the native side, I am focusing on iOS only, since I am a single developer with limited time. For Android, I plan to use standard Cordova, and accept that it might not run that smooth as on iOS.