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Android SDK vs Gin Gonic: What are the differences?
Developers describe Android SDK as "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. On the other hand, Gin Gonic is detailed as "*HTTP web framework written in Go *". It is an HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance. It is up to 40 times faster.
Android SDK and Gin Gonic can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Gin Gonic is an open source tool with 28.9K GitHub stars and 3.34K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gin Gonic's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1084 company stacks & 907 developers stacks; compared to Gin Gonic, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
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 Gin Gonic
- Hight performance11
- Open source5
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Cons of Android SDK
Cons of Gin Gonic
- Low performance2
- No wildcard routing1