Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by zappo2938 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:18PM
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Netflix is running React native across all devices.
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Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by error54 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:27PM
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Not true. Our Android and iOS apps are native. We are however looking into React Native.
Source - I'm an engineer at Netflix.
Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by zappo2938 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @11:50PM
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Sorry. I was under the impression after watching this video Netflix was using React across all devices. [0]
Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by tracker1 on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:35AM
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React is not the same as React Native... there's enough similarities to share a name. React is the base (afaik) for all web-based client interactions, which also includes a lot of TV/Webtop interfaces, but not necessarily Android and iOS.
Given the shift towards Flux and Falcore, React Native may make sense for the iOS/Android, and potentially in Windows/Ubuntu as well (speculating).
Disclaimer, I don't work there, but did go through the interview process last year, I wasn't enthusiastic about moving to California at the time.
Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by error54 on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:23AM
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No worries! Tracker1 is correct that all browser based UI is built using React. Other platforms may be doing their own explorations into React but I can't speak to that since those are outside of my domain of expertise. I can say that my team loves React so we're definitely looking into React Native.
Re:The Cost of Native Mobile App Development Is Too Damn High
by onebot on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:07AM
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Are you guys hiring? ;)