Ashley Hunter has announced the alpha release of Angular Native, an open-source framework licensed under MIT that lets developers build native iOS and Android apps using Angular's ecosystem. Rather than relying on embedded web viewers, Angular Native connects Angular's Renderer2 directly to Expo's infrastructure to render genuine native components—mapping screens to UIView elements on Apple's platform and android.view.View on Google's system.
The framework preserves the full Angular development experience, including traditional templates, dependency injection, and signals, integrated directly with Expo SDK 57 and the newly released Angular 22. Developers get complete Tailwind CSS v4 support and a styling engine compiled at build time by Metro. Platform-specific style variants let you target iOS, Android, and dark themes separately, while component state persists across hot reloads during template development.
Navigation in Angular Native converts Angular's router into native navigation stacks with tabs, modals, gestures, and deep links out of the box. Hardware capabilities—camera, Face ID biometrics, notifications, secure storage, and SQLite connections—are exposed directly as reactive signals. Testing runs component suites in Node without opening emulators, and the framework supports end-to-end flows with Maestro and llms.txt files for autonomous code agent integration.