Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native (2025) - Shopify

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This post introduces Mobile Bridge, a framework designed to enhance WebViews within the Shopify mobile app. It addresses three key goals: making WebViews faster by preloading and caching them (improving load times by ~6x), making them look native by disabling zoom, removing text selection, hiding unnecessary UI elements, and adapting Polaris components, and making them feel native through two-way communication using @remote-ui/rpc. Specific implementations include solving page titles and actions, enabling WebView navigation with TransportableView, handling back navigation with snapshots, and presenting modals natively. It also details integrating native features like the Date Picker and Barcode Scanner. Future work involves rendering Polaris components natively using remote-dom.