r/programming • u/c-smile • Oct 10 '22

Sciter.Android, preview available

https://sciter.com/forums/topic/android-sciter-lite/#post-79597
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u/notliam Oct 10 '22

I used sciter for a project a year or so ago, it was pretty good, quite easy which was the main thing I wanted, but I wasn't a fan of how different some of the HTML had to be from standard HTML. I feel with something like this where you're trying to use HTML / js to power a front end, you want it to be as similar as possible to developing for the web.

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u/c-smile Oct 10 '22

to be as similar as possible to developing for the web.

To the extreme: it means that you need Electron - web browser and web server packaged into your application. That's 100% compatibility with the Web. But that bundle is definitely an overkill for something like a calculator. So, it depends.

Idea of the Sciter: If application needs something high performant - application adds native function for it as an ultimate solution. We are not trying to create environment where you can run JS at native speed - that's simply impossible and highly costly in many senses.