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Android SDK vs Revel: 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; Revel: A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language. Revel makes it easy to build web applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern by relying on conventions that require a certain structure in your application. In return, it is very light on configuration and enables an extremely fast development cycle.
Android SDK and Revel can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Android development" is the primary reason why developers consider Android SDK over the competitors, whereas "Go" was stated as the key factor in picking Revel.
Revel is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Revel's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1083 company stacks & 905 developers stacks; compared to Revel, which is listed in 3 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 Revel
- Go16
- High-Productivity6
- Full-Stack5
- High performance4
- MVC4
- Open source2
- Simple1