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Decisions about Android SDK and Xamarin Forms
Omran Jamal
CTO & Co-founder at Bonton Connect · | 7 upvotes · 603.6K 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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- Necessary for android156
- Android studio128
- Mobile framework86
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- Native Development SDK with shared C# code-base5
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Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.
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A mobile application framework for building user interfaces.It easily create native user interface layouts that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
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Android Studio
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React Native
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Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.