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Wow. I've been struggling to teach myself objective-c, never getting beyond the simple tutorials. So I'm happy to try this out. I currently have an MVP in ioni

by sheraz 12y ago

Wow. I've been struggling to teach myself objective-c, never getting beyond the simple tutorials. So I'm happy to try this out. I currently have an MVP in ionic framework and would love to port this over to react. Though I should say that Ionic is amazing in its own right. Also, I tend to agree with some of the comments in this thread -- regular Joe user can't really tell the difference. Ionic on an iPhone looks damn-near close to native. Android leaves a little to be desired. Nice work React team

mattdeboard 12y ago
Dude you should try Swift. Much easier.
- sheraz 12y ago
  I would, but I have not upgraded my macbook to mavericks yet. :-/
squeaky-clean 12y ago
Same situation here, using Ionic, but this seems extremely cool. I'll definitely build something with ReactNative as soon as I can. We're only making a news app, but Ionic feels completely native once we optimized it correctly and use the latest beta features. As for Android being slow does that include 4.4 devices, or just older version of Android? If it's older devices, you should try the new Ionic beta with Crosswalk integration (you'll need to install/enable Crosswalk, but it's very easy to do). Sadly, it'll add about 25mb to your .apk, but on phones earlier than 4.4 the performance boost is at least 10x if not more.
- sheraz 12y ago
  On your suggestion I tried it on my phone (4.1.2). The rendering improved, but speed is still an issue. Scrolling with big images is jerky. However, I have not yet optimized images or CSS. I'll probably spend next week looking into optimizations for ionic.
  - perryg 12y ago
    Take a look at this blog post on improving scroll performance. https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/www/ionic_list_perf/index.html https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/www/ionic_list_perf/ind... The biggest trick is to use CSS and pseudo elements instead of actual DOM elements and bindonce wherever possible. Performant scrolling on older Android will always be tricky, even on native.

by sheraz 12y ago

mattdeboard 12y ago

Dude you should try Swift. Much easier.

sheraz 12y ago
I would, but I have not upgraded my macbook to mavericks yet. :-/

squeaky-clean 12y ago

Same situation here, using Ionic, but this seems extremely cool. I'll definitely build something with ReactNative as soon as I can. We're only making a news app, but Ionic feels completely native once we optimized it correctly and use the latest beta features. As for Android being slow does that include 4.4 devices, or just older version of Android? If it's older devices, you should try the new Ionic beta with Crosswalk integration (you'll need to install/enable Crosswalk, but it's very easy to do). Sadly, it'll add about 25mb to your .apk, but on phones earlier than 4.4 the performance boost is at least 10x if not more.

sheraz 12y ago
On your suggestion I tried it on my phone (4.1.2). The rendering improved, but speed is still an issue. Scrolling with big images is jerky. However, I have not yet optimized images or CSS. I'll probably spend next week looking into optimizations for ionic.
- perryg 12y ago
  Take a look at this blog post on improving scroll performance. https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/www/ionic_list_perf/index.html https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/www/ionic_list_perf/ind... The biggest trick is to use CSS and pseudo elements instead of actual DOM elements and bindonce wherever possible. Performant scrolling on older Android will always be tricky, even on native.