Light Client Mode

Use native UI instead of webview.

Why?

When Lux was born, web technology is the primary way to build cross-platform applications to me. However, webview has some limitations, such as:

• High memory usage
• Poor support in Flutter desktop(main problem), see https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/99597 and https://github.com/igoogolx/lux/issues/130

Therefore, I decided to build a native UI with components of Flutter. However, it doesn't mean webview is dropped. Web technology was and will be an important part of Lux. Actually, Light Client Mode is a hybrid architecture:

• The simple main UI is built with native components
• Other complex UIs are still built with web technology but opened in browser instead of webview

How to enable?

Go to Setting -> enable Light Client Mode. Then restart Lux.