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Google is working on it: https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine and https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch
Is sky engine a Google project?
yes been waiting for this for a long time!
Question for everybody doing some sort of cross platform mobile dev. How common is it to have NO experience with a platform's native libraries? In other words you didn't go from ObjC or Java to React Native/Cordova/Xamarin to try and re-use code but because you know JS or C# and weren't concerned about learning the native platform. For any that started out with no native platform knowledge did you start to dip into i…
If you're going cross platform, the key is to know in detail the limitations of this approach, even if it takes longer to make that initial decision about what path to take. Different cross-platform tools have different approaches, but as a concrete example take Corona SDK. You need no native platform knowledge and your app runs inside the Corona runtime, which makes some difficult things easy but some easy things --…
There's the rub. If you don't know anything about the native platform then you "don't know what you don't know". The NativeScript demo shows how to pull in a native ObjC function (a string related method I think), but if you start with no background in the native libraries how would you even know when you could be leveraging a native library function instead of trying to recreate a sub-optimal approximation in JS. But if you have the foundation and know the native platform, why jump ship to JS at all? And then I'm right back where I started :)
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Google is working on it: https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine and https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch
This looks like more of a side project than something Google is going to put its weight behind. I am pretty excited for Fletch though - I hope it turns into something like React Native, which would be much improved using Dart and Dart tools instead of JavaScript IMO. Right now Fletch looks pretty awkward/painful to use though. Writing views completely natively (ObjC/Swift/Java) and then calling into a DartVM for busi…
Also, looks like they will name it as Flutter: https://flutter.github.io/getting-started/
Noob question - is it possible to learn React and build mobile apps for someone who is a web developer and has no knowledge/experience in mobile development?
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could you elaborate on what poor decisions rn allows you to make over native ios/android?
With Native ios/android, you get a selection of UI components to use. If your designs don't fit any of those components, you either have to build something from scratch or alter to the design to fit the Native UI language. Usually the prospect of 'building from scratch' is enough to deter people from building components that don't fit the device's interface. So you generally end up with apps that all fit the native d…
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Speaking as a web developer, this is sad, but true. However, what's even sadder to me is the fact this continues to be true despite the fact that, believe it or not, the web has been the platform where most of the innovation in UI development paradigms has been taking place in the past few years. And I don't just mean in terms of the sheer number of new things coming out. The web community pioneered UI development pa…
I don't believe it. As someone with lots of native UI experience, that has to occasionally support web projects, the web is just plain clunky and playing catch up with the RAD tooling we enjoy since the mid-90 on native platforms.
https://github.com/gaearon/babel-plugin-react-transform/
Slightly off topic but I'm curious about using React Native vs WebView with native wrapper and components. I'm a developer who primarily codes in Ruby. I'm working on a side project that will be mostly CRUD and have no DOM updates. The application will need to support web, mobile, and tablet. I'm considering using React so I can use React Native but I'm afraid I'm adding a level of unnecessary complexity. Originally,…
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Yeah, the promise is not "write once, run everywhere". It's 1) write in a familiar way and 2) reuse a substantial amount.
Which is unlike using Ionic Framework, where I've gotten about 98% code reuse between platforms. The only place that I usually end up making platform-specific changes is where Ionic has an iOS-specific layout change that breaks the look of a custom component on iOS. That and sometimes native-only features like Push Notifications that need to be handled slightly differently on each platform. But the latter is about a…
Ionic is using HTML widgets , not actual IOS or Android widgets like React Native , Titanium or others. So you are basically developping an HTML client inside a webview and calling it an APP. Of course you'll be able to reuse 98% of the code that ran into a web browser. But it will look like an HTML website.
Yes! I've been working with React-Native on a side project for a few weeks now. WHAT A GODSEND! Before this, I was using Titanium, which is heavy, slow, and difficult to integrate with. React-Native felt like home. On a related note; Why is it up to Facebook to develop something like this? Why aren't Apple and Google making it this easy to develop apps? ObjC is a nightmare, 90% of apps out there don't need that level…
If you don't need to push the features envelope of the mobile platforms you are targeting, and if you are OK with having L&F that isn't native, and if you are OK with the pace at which your cross-platform tools chase the native platforms, then cross-platform tools like React Native can be fine for you.