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Comment · 9 years ago
I ordered an Addison Lee to the airport a few months back. The driver spent the entire time chatting about Uber and how dangerous it is. It's like they get off on it. He was also being quite racist about their drivers. This was at 3am in the morning.
This is just one data point, but I wasn't impressed.
Comment · 9 years ago
They're probably using several bloated SDK's within their app for core Google services, view elements etc etc. If they're using dynamic linking, they have to include these in the binary even if they only use a small percentage of the libraries.
That's potentially one explanation.
Comment · 9 years ago
Maybe it's just my experiences (iOS development interviews), but whiteboard interviews are actually quite rare. Most of the time it's either questions about iOS, pair programming iOS or discussing your implementation of some coding test.
I wonder if this is just a result of it being a more niche skill set than a general software developer.
Comment · 10 years ago
According to discord (https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late...):
Unfortunately Android devices have much
greater variance in performance and tend to trail significantly behind iOS.
We were able to get our app running fairly quickly,
but the performance — specifically on touch events was not at an acceptable level even on higher end devices.
In addition at that early stage there was still a lot missing in the React Native Android feature-set that would
have made getting our prototype to production level more time consuming than our iOS effort.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for the input. I do feel more and more that cross-Platform is a illusion like you say.
I already know Swift. Do you think Kotlin would a better transition into Android than straight up Java?
Comment · 10 years ago
I've heard performance problems.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think mainly for minor parts.
From my initial research it appears the React Native on Android suffers performance problems. I.e. the Discord app on that showcase is still native Android, whereas their iOS app is React Native.