Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat

Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by joshstrange on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @09:50AM (#9604792)

Unless that platform has changed completely in the last year or so then they are wrong. Appcelerator (and things like it) generally make "Hello World" super easy and even the first week or two will be awesome. Then the cracks will start to show. You will add a listener on a button and the app starts crashing with a cryptic error, you start having to litter your code with `if(isAndroid)`/`if(isIOS)`, or for some reason a view will be really show to render to lag between clicking and doing something. When you get down to it you'd be better off learning native or just accepting a mobile website instead. Normally (IMHO) the only apps worth using appcelerator for are simple websites and at that point you'd be better off just doing a mobile website.

I'm excited to play with React Native but I fear it will suffer from the same issues.

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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by untog on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:01AM (#9605283)

I agree with most of what you say, but:

you start having to litter your code with `if(isAndroid)`/`if(isIOS)`

That's an inevitable drawback of a cross-platform framework like this. XCode and Android Studio only work with one OS, so they sidestep it.

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Re:Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat by k__ on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @11:25AM (#9605412)

Sidestepping a problem in universal app development by don't doing it.

You're joking right? ;)

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