Android

Why you should go native

Tradeoffs

• Every engineering decision is a tradeoff
• Frameworks, tools, methodologies, platforms
• Time, money, expertise; in no particular order

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Evan Dale Aromin

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Performance is not everything

• Team expertise
• Time available
• Resources available

• Most devices are resource constrained
• Tooling
• The web will catch up?
• I would wager that you could learn native faster than the web catching up

The network is unreliable

• Obviously, m.yourapp.com is largely affected
• Both native and mobile web apps can somehow compensate

Look and feel

• Mobile web apps can be made to look like native apps
• Native platforms change look and feel on a whim
• Design guidelines easier to implement in native

Best tool for the job

• Take advantage of new APIs early
• Take advantage of new hardware features early
• Keeps on getting better per release
• Dedicated team for Android Tooling (ADT, Android Studio, etc.)
• Background services always require native knowledge

Huge market

Jobs

Community

• Lots of resources on how to do things
• Active stackoverflow community
• Lots of open source libraries
• DevBytes, developer.android.com

ymmv

Thanks!