4 ms·
As someone interested in moving slowly into mobile development from heavy web application development experience, is Android development much easier?
by davzie 10y ago
As someone interested in moving slowly into mobile development from heavy web application development experience, is Android development much easier?
- ashark 10y agoThe provisioning? Yes, easier on Android. Getting published in the app store? Yes. Having an IDE that doesn't crash daily? Yes. Everything else is harder/worse though. Documentation, SDK/APIs, device ecosystem (so, testing and QA). So pick which part(s) of the experience you'd rather have not-suck and go with the platform that matches it best, if ease of development is your main concern. [EDIT] if you do decide to go with Android, look at Square's libraries and their documentation of how they develop for Android. They've done a lot to de-shitify the platform, but it means doing things very differently from how you would if you followed the official docs. If you're doing anything non-trivial you could do a lot worse than deferring to Square's judgement on how to structure your application.
- harisriskantha 10y agoSide note: have you looked at React Native? (I think) it's great! (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ https://facebook.github.io/react-native/)