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Android SDK vs Volt: 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 Volt? A ruby web framework where your ruby runs on both server and client. Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

Android SDK and Volt belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

"Android development" is the top reason why over 280 developers like Android SDK, while over 2 developers mention "Handlebars" as the leading cause for choosing Volt.

Volt is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 209 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Volt's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Android SDK and Volt
Omran Jamal
CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect · | 7 upvotes · 558.5K 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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    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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    Rich web applications
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    Holy Grail (Server-Client)
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    Reactive Web Framework
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    Open source
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    Ruby client side
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    Handlebars
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    WebSockets
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    Real Time
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    Great Ruby Gems
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    Super Awesome for Beginners
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    Fantabulous

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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 Volt?

Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

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