I want the mobile app to look exactly like my una site (artificer theme). Is it good practice to just have a blank webview app, so when the person opens the app it only shows the mobile verson of my site as of they are opening it in the chrome web browser? Or should I use UNA's mobile app? Also, is flutter good or should it be something else?
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Short answer is no, it's not a good practice to ship an app that is only a wrapper with your site in webview. There is a good chance (more so in recent years) that your app would be rejected during the review as well.
Long answer is a bit more complicated. Apple and Google say that they want your app to add some value beyond just the mobile site. In reality they just want more control and webview is not something they can control. Very similar context applies to progressive web apps - a lot of talk and excitement about PWAs getting accepted to app stores, but in reality they just don't get past the review. Not for social apps anyway. Maybe very simple notebooks/to-do/generate-image apps would be accepted, but a social app is treated differently.
We have an app in UNA repo, which is a bit more than a wrapper. It has a launcher, header with routing, notifications, etc. It's still often not enough. Hence the effort to build NEO.
We are going to announce the first native NEO app in production on Monday. Stay tuned.