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Android SDK vs Guice: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Guice? A lightweight dependency injection framework for Java. It is an open-source software framework for the Java platform. It provides support for dependency injection using annotations to configure Java objects. It embraces Java's type safe nature, especially when it comes to features introduced in Java 5 such as generics and annotations.
Android SDK and Guice belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
Google, Instacart, and Slack are some of the popular companies that use Android SDK, whereas Guice is used by Wealthsimple, Redfin, and Chop Technologies, Inc. Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1471 company stacks & 4884 developers stacks; compared to Guice, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 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.