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Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines, mixed with kotlin multiplatform code, came and made many things nicer, especially UI. With so many libraries and so many
by tarkin2 3y ago
Jetpack Compose, and Kotlin coroutines, mixed with kotlin multiplatform code, came and made many things nicer, especially UI. With so many libraries and so many ways of doing things with so many opinions it’s still hard to digest of course.
It’s better than non native for performance and experience but many companies will of course care more about the money saved from a sub native experience with fewer developers.
- flutas 3y ago> It’s better than non native for performance and experience but many companies will of course care more about the money saved from a sub native experience with fewer developers. I currently work at an agency doing Android apps (not a typical pump and dump agency mind you, I've been the lead on this single project for 5 years and we've had them as a client for 8+), and I'm so happy to see our client buck that. They've had us on a native app that we've been supporting for the entire 8 years, and had deep technical issues from before us ("lets reinvent the web browser for UI"). They had a secondary internal team (known to us, no hidden surprise, you're gone stuff) working to replace us with a greenfield cross platform app (I think react native). That project went on for a year before they cut their losses and said "cross platform can't be good enough." We're now in the planning phase of a complete greenfield rewrite of the existing app to take advantage of Compose + Kotlin, and ditch 12 years of tech debt and I'm practically ecstatic.
- tarkin2 3y agoGood to hear. I'm thinking more smallish companies with simpleish apps mostly (with Flutter anyway; I've never been fully convinced by React Native)