react native
Is it fine to learn react native if it’s just for a personal project? Or are these frameworks just not a good time investment at all? I sorta started and it’s pretty great to be able to create an app pretty quickly all in js. (from pov as someone who is primarily backend but wants to create stuff on the side so not a specialization just a way to have a frontend to my work) edit: to be specific is it better to do react-native or stick to stuff like android/kotlin/swift Just tagging fb since it’s made by them :)
Try flutter. It's simple (just all widgets) and has built in material design, which makes implementing the UI much simpler.
How is it working for you so far? The idea of cross-platform sounds great to me so I’ve been watching a course to try and make an app myself as a designer. Setting it up on macOS is kind of a pain though.
Because of work, I have less time to look into it now. When I was learning it I remember everything was just Android studio, and set up was fairly straightforward. Whatever I needed I used Brew install on my Mac. I only tested my apps on Android phones, maybe iPhones are more challenging.
Definitely worth it, react native is awesome!
is goog still on Angular?
They're using flutter..
As a native Android dev, I don't prefer both React and Flutter. On Android, React is basically a JavaScript engine written in C++, accessed by Java via JNI. Yuck! I hate both JS and Dart. But that's just my opinion. Microsoft and FB are two big users of React, and I think React makes is relatively easy to jump between web and mobile as a developer. So definitely worth learning. My approach to mobile apps is Kotlin Native for cross platform libraries, consumed by natively built UI applications.
Wait is Kotlin native cross platform across iOS/Android?
Just android
Definitely worth it and a reasonable career option. Market for RN devs and experts is large and growing.
Depending on what kind of personal project you want to do later on. The learning curve is relatively lower as compared to native mobile development. However there are limitations e.g. not able to build complex games.
Why are you asking for permission to learn something on the side
Lool touché, was more like is it worth it? Would it be more beneficial to stick to Kotlin/Android/swift/iOS rather than frameworks meant to do it all is a better question