Tauri 2 — desktop · mobile in one codebase

Electron is big and slow. Tauri 2 wraps your frontend in the OS-native WebView, with Rust on the backend, cutting bundles ~10x while shipping desktop and Android from one codebase.

Who it's for

• People who built a small React app and now want desktop / mobile targets
• Anyone looking for an Electron alternative
• Developers who want to touch native features like local SQLite, OCR, STT

What you can do afterwards

• Scaffold a Tauri 2 project (Rust + React + Vite)
• Wire front ↔ back via IPC commands and events
• Persist data with local SQLite using tauri-plugin-sql
• Build signed Android APKs
• Integrate OCR (Tesseract), STT/TTS (Web Speech API)
• Ship to Google Play with AdMob

Flow

[1] Why ──▶ [2] Setup ──▶ [3] IPC ──▶ [4] SQLite
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                [7] AdMob·ship ◀── [6] OCR/STT/TTS ◀── [5] Android

Steps 1–4 cover a desktop-only lifecycle, end-to-end. Steps 5–7 are how the same code travels to mobile.

Steps

1. Why Tauri — vs Electron — bundle size · security · performance
2. Project setup — Rust toolchain · create tauri-app · Vite + React
3. IPC — command / event — invoke / emit patterns
4. Local SQLite — tauri-plugin-sql · migrations · offline-first
5. Android build — NDK · keystore · tauri android build
6. OCR / STT / TTS — Tesseract wasm · Web Speech API · permissions
7. AdMob + shipping — ad IDs · Play submission

Prerequisites — frontend-foundations + Rust 1.75+ + Android Studio.