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Android SDK vs Dancer: What are the differences?
Android SDK: An SDK that provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android. Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment; Dancer: Simple but powerful web application framework for Perl. Dancer is a free and open source micro web application framework written in Perl.
Android SDK and Dancer can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Dancer is an open source tool with 446 GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Dancer's open source repository on GitHub.
We actually initially wrote a lot of networking code in Kotlin but the complexities involved prompted us to try and compile NodeJS for Android and port over all the networking logic to Node and communicate with node over the Java Native Interface.
This turned out to be a great decision considering our battery usage fell by 40% and rate of development increased by a factor of 2.
Pros of Android SDK
- Android development289
- Necessary for android156
- Android studio128
- Mobile framework86
- Backed by google82
- Platform-tools27
- Eclipse + adt plugin21
- Powerful, simple, one stop environment5
- Free3
- Больно3
Pros of Dancer
- Fast1
- Easy1
- Stable1
- Microframework1
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