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What if you can't afford to hire a "top notch" iOS and Android dev? (or any extra devs for that matter) You don't think there's a lot of companies in that boat
by theultdev 3y ago
What if you can't afford to hire a "top notch" iOS and Android dev? (or any extra devs for that matter)
You don't think there's a lot of companies in that boat?
I was able to make a react-native app, targeting web first. Took a little under a year.
Took 1 month to get it working and deployed on both app stores to replace the apps our iOS and Android team used to work on natively.
I now maintain web, iOS, and Android, solely, with one codebase, 95% code shared.
We used to have at least two devs on each native platform. That saves about $600k/yr.
(browser-based cross-platform toolkits are a joke, they are not flexible, and are hard to extend)
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago> (browser-based cross-platform toolkits are a joke, they are not flexible, and are hard to extend) I would have agreed with you say 5 or more years ago, but completely disagree now. I certainly don't think the better web-view-based frameworks have any more issues than React Native, and on the contrary I've seen React Native usually have more.
- theultdev 3y agoWe'll have to agree to disagree there. A webview-based framework has way too many limitations even to this day for us. React Native has been able to provide a native-like experience for us with no issues.