Bubble Native Apps

[marc.vykhopen]

I’ve been trying to find guidance about native apps. What configurations do I use, etc. I need a video that could explain everything.

[J805]

Hey @marc.vykhopen

Bubble will be releasing a true native app builder soon, but it’s not publicly available yet. I think it is still in Alpha/Beta testing right now.

Bubble Mobile Apps Editor Roadmap and Timeline

Hi everyone! I’m Nick, and I’m the product manager for the Mobile team. We’re grateful for the excitement for Bubble’s native mobile app builder and wanted to give you an even more detailed look at our progress. The team has been working hard: In the last month, we shipped the alpha version and started the testing process with a group of 30 community members. Thanks to their feedback so far, we have finalized our roadmap for the beta. (If you’re not yet on the waitlist for the beta, you can si…

You can currently wrap an app using a few different plugins, like BDK, but they aren’t true native apps yet.

[GH5T]

@J805

You can currently wrap an app using a few different plugins, like BDK , but they aren’t true native apps yet.

Not talking down on BDK, but you will not find updates or support for this wrapper at this time (see post here). Your best bet is something like https://buildnatively.com.

Also, Bubble is currently working on their own Native features (like @J805 has said). So maybe you want to wait until then to implement (but there will be bugs I assure you).

[lindsay_knowcode]

I’ve had a glimpse of the alpha. It’s kind of awesome. I’m sorry to say it will make the app wrappers obsolete.

[J805]

I am not sorry about that. I am glad Bubble finally will do it the right way.

[georgecollier]

@lindsay_knowcode

I’ve had a glimpse of the alpha.

+1, and while there’s no official ‘release date’, they seem confident that the beta testers could deploy apps in the next few months, and given the scale of the technical challenge, the new UI concepts specifically for mobile behave how you would expect they do in Bubble (with all the quirks that entails!).

I’m more positive on mobile native now I’ve seen it, as before I was just a bit indifferent to it - what’s the point of a PWA when it’s just a website (yes, I know there are some distinctions but you know what I mean). Bubble native on the other hand should make it fairly easy to deploy mobile companion apps to existing web apps that feel like proper mobile apps.

They’re doing a good job, we wish we could share details