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Android SDK vs JAWS: 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, JAWS is detailed as "Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services". The Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications.
Android SDK and JAWS can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
JAWS is an open source tool with 30.9K GitHub stars and 3.43K GitHub forks. Here's a link to JAWS'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
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- Heroku2
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