Does Native Android Development Have a Future?

The Native Android world is in trouble that’s at least a feeling you quickly DMS from Android developers all day typical comments are my clients want an app for both platforms not only Android Google plays requirements are becoming more and more ridiculous or Android Studio is just such a buggy IDE is that a sign that native Android development.

The Rise of Cross-Platform Frameworks: A Game-Changer?

I agree with all of those I just went over some parts a lot of clients want an app for both platforms which is correct Google Plays requirements are hardly ridiculous that’s correct and yes Android studies certainly have some bugs but I want to say something about all of that and starting with the cross-platform Frameworks that’s a trend I’m seeing as well among the most popular we have flute react native Cortland

Multiplatform now with composed multiplatform to also build UI for IOS and Android and to be honest with you I would be happy about one of them becoming the norm for app building since Dan I could adapt to that technology and also build iOS apps but it’s not so easy.

Navigating the Challenges of Native Android Development:

If you think back people have been saying for over a decade that cross-platform Frameworks will completely take over the market and that’s still not happening the problem that I see is that people always try to look for that one-size-fits-all approach which simply doesn’t exist and if you try to bring the advantages of two different Technologies together native Android.

Native iOS you will have to accept partly heavy compromises and that doesn’t mean that cross-platform can’t be better for use case a and Native development for use case b for sure but a world in which cross-platform is the better pick for any type of app you’re going to build I currently don’t see as long as there are two quite different.

Operating systems with cross-platform you can certainly build some very cool apps and getting two apps out of one is just very cool but on the flip side you will always find people talking about performance drawbacks difficult codebase.

Maintenance large app size and so on so regarding this point it doesn’t matter what you pick there will be work for you and now coming to the second.

Native Android development we all know them Gradle builds buggy emulators just a buggy IDE buggy Android Studio ridiculous Google Play requirements, especially with a recent change where you need 20 testers to just release an app as a normal person, and these things of course exist.

They suck but do you know what also exists for Android developers a great programming language in my opinion the best one out there then we have a great customizable IDE especially when it comes to shortcuts trust me once you’ve worked with ax code.

You know what I’m talking about and we have a comparably open ecosystem with Android which allows developers quite a lot of freedom yes this got a bit more lied over time but it’s not as limited as iOS and these are things we know but often don’t take into perspective because tell me a perfect field and nobody complains about it doesn’t exist so.

While we Android developers complain about Gradle Android Studio and Google Play requirements iOS developers will complain about a code they will complain about the App Store and being forced to publish your app there they will complain about weird signing profiles then frontend developers will complain about different browser types and compatibility issues they will complain about dozens of web development.

Frameworks that are all in the end built on top of HTML CSS JavaScript and nobody knows which one of these is right then back developers complain about difficult databased migrations they will complain about having to configure tons of different environments they will complain about cloud services and their limitations so as you see every field has good and has bad sides.

Perspective: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener in Other Fields:

However, the more we are into a field the more we know what sucks about this field and the less we know what sucks about other fields and that is what gives us the feeling that only our chosen field our chosen Niche is better and the grass is greener everywhere else and if people switch their field just because of issues in the current field with the hope of not having such issues in the other field that often leads to problems. Because They just see the bad sides in the current field since they know them well and then only compare those bad sides of their current field with the new field and they won’t find these bad sides in the new field but they will find new bad sides which they don’t yet know about like when an android developer would dive into front development they would think oh no more emulators no more heavy IDE finally no more grade and all that’s true we don’t use that for web development. But just because those bad sides of Android don’t apply to the web doesn’t mean that the web.

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