# Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native

DevFeed: [Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mobile-bridge-making-webviews-feel-native-1499.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/mobilebridge-native-webviews>)

Author: Mauricio de Meirelles

Published: 2025-04-25T14:12:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [WebView](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webview.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [react-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react-native.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [webview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webview.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes Mobile Bridge, a framework for improving WebView performance, appearance, and integration in its mobile app. The approach preloads, authenticates, caches, and reuses WebViews through native iOS and Android modules.

## Source excerpt

Learn how we tackled the main issues of traditional WebViews--performance, appearance, and integration--and how Mobile Bridge became a game-changer in our mobile development strategy, even allowing us to accelerate the migration to React Native.