190: Going Steady With a Platform

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Alex Sullivan, mobile developer in our Boston office. Alex takes Chris on a tour of the mobile landscape comparing the core native platforms (Android and iOS), the languages, developer tooling and IDEs, and fundamental thinking. They also dip into a discussion around React Native highlighting some of its strengths, as well as areas where native still clearly wins. Finally they touch on Flutter, the newest entrant into the mobile space to round out the discussion.

• Runkeeper
• Android
• iOS
• ViewModel
• Room
• Java
• Kotlin
• Objective C
• Swift
• Scala
• JetBrains
• Type erasure
• Reified types
• Android Studio
• Xcode
• AppCode
• Gary Bernhardt
• React Native
• Xamarin
• Flutter
• Dart
• Alex's post comparing performance of native, Flutter, and React Native

Thank you to CircleCI for sponsoring this episode.

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