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Android SDK vs Spring MVC: 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; Spring MVC: A Java framework which is used to build web applications. A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.

Android SDK and Spring MVC can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Spring MVC is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring MVC's open source repository on GitHub.

Google, Instacart, and Slack are some of the popular companies that use Android SDK, whereas Spring MVC is used by 1stdibs, Redfin, and europeone. Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1084 company stacks & 907 developers stacks; compared to Spring MVC, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Omran Jamal
CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect · | 7 upvotes · 599.5K views

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.

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    What is Android SDK?

    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 Spring MVC?

    A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.

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