Yes, it only renders HTML and also has a lot of javascript.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:25 PM Nick Sarbicki
<nick.a.sarbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's the point, you don't. Assuming your backend has an effective way of 
> delivering data (e.g. a REST API).
>
> If your Django server currently only renders HTML templates then you may want 
> to consider adding an API on top of that. But the backend definitely does not 
> need to be rewritten, only slightly expanded upon (using python).
>
> Outside of that you only need to focus on the frontend, usually with swift.
>
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, 16:47 Larry Martell, <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Googling I found where someone said you could leave the back end in
>> python and rewrite the front end in objective C or swift or rewrite
>> the entire app in objective C or swift. Why would you need to rewrite
>> the python back end that runs on the server?
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:27 AM Nick Sarbicki
>> <nick.a.sarbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Kind of...
>> >
>> > I've worked with several Django APIs that we use to back apps on Android 
>> > and iOS as well as web apps.
>> >
>> > I generally find that's the key, make sure you can pass all the data along 
>> > as an API and the rest is just understanding how to build a frontend on 
>> > the platform. Django doesn't really get in the way at all at that point.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, 14:19 Larry Martell, <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone here every taken a django web app and converted it to an
>> >> iPhone app? If so, can you share your experiences here please?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!

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