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Android SDK vs Vert.x: 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 Vert.x? A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM. It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.

Android SDK and Vert.x can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Google, Instacart, and Slack are some of the popular companies that use Android SDK, whereas Vert.x is used by OpenGov, AgoraPulse, and NOYSI. Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1084 company stacks & 907 developers stacks; compared to Vert.x, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Omran Jamal
CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect · | 7 upvotes · 601.8K 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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    Android development
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    Necessary for android
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    Android studio
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    Mobile framework
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    Backed by google
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    Platform-tools
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    Eclipse + adt plugin
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    Powerful, simple, one stop environment
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    Free
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    Больно
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    Light weight
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    Fast
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    Java
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    Developers Are Super
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    Extensible
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    Easy Socks.js integration
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    Asynchronous
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    Strong concurrency model
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    Great tooling
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    Easy integration
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    Central Config (Redis)
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    Good documentation
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    Abstract data grid API
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    Unopinionated
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    Clustering Infrastructure
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    Parallelism
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    Actor-like model

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      Steep Learning Curve
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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 Vert.x?

    It is event driven and non blocking application framework. This means your app can handle a lot of concurrency using a small number of kernel threads. It lets your app scale with minimal hardware.

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