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Android SDK vs JRuby: 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; JRuby: A high performance, stable, fully threaded Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter in Java. The Java version is tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application. See the docs directory for more information.
Android SDK can be classified as a tool in the "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category, while JRuby is grouped under "Languages".
"Android development" is the primary reason why developers consider Android SDK over the competitors, whereas "Java" was stated as the key factor in picking JRuby.
JRuby is an open source tool with 3.31K GitHub stars and 829 GitHub forks. Here's a link to JRuby's open source repository on GitHub.
Google, 9GAG, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use Android SDK, whereas JRuby is used by Groupon, Soundcloud, and Lookout. Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1071 company stacks & 878 developers stacks; compared to JRuby, which is listed in 13 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.
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 JRuby
- Java8
- Faster than Ruby7
- Threads3
- JVM3
- Open source2
- Supports native Ruby gems out the box2
- Garbage collection built-in2
- Built-in Testing2
- Deploy as executable jay2
- Great community1
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