Tauri 2 — desktop · mobile in one codebase
Ship desktop and Android apps from a single Rust + web frontend. Seven steps — IPC to OCR to AdMob.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Lessons
- 7
- Total time
- 180 min
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
Steps
- Why Tauri — vs Electron — bundle size · security · performance
- Project setup — Rust toolchain ·
create tauri-app· Vite + React - IPC — command / event — invoke / emit patterns
- Local SQLite —
tauri-plugin-sql· migrations · offline-first - Android build — NDK · keystore ·
tauri android build - OCR / STT / TTS — Tesseract wasm · Web Speech API · permissions
- AdMob + shipping — ad IDs · Play submission
Prerequisites — frontend-foundations + Rust 1.75+ + Android Studio.