"Islands" of hotwire in a native app?

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Hi - fairly new to Hotwire and Hotwire Native especially. We have a pair of existing native apps that we’re interested in adding HwN to, and I’m wondering if the following is possible (or if I’m just thinking about this completely wrong!)

We can see how full screen of Hotwire content work, alongside the routing, navigation, etc. What about if we wanted to specify an ‘island’ of Hotwire content in an area of a native view? This wouldn’t need to participate in routing, etc - the native view would essentially load a fixed HW URL into an element of a fixed size on a page. In browser-terms, this would be an iframe.

Can we do the equivalent in HwN? As a concrete example, we have a screen with a tabbed interface - can I replace the contents of one tab with HwN content, while leaving the tabs themselves, navigation, etc as their existing native content?

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@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.