I wonder what is the advantage of using Kotlin nat...
# kotlin-nativea
amorenew
06/27/2018, 5:45 AMI wonder what is the advantage of using Kotlin native over React Native ?
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olonho
06/27/2018, 5:48 AMI’d say: using Kotlin, better platfrom integration (ability to interop with arbitrary platfrom APIs), actual native code generation (so no VM), having Kotlin MPP as discipline of cross-platfrom development
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amorenew
06/27/2018, 5:56 AMis the performance better than React native?
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olonho
06/27/2018, 6:23 AMdepends on the workload. on some workloads it could be on par with C, some heavy object oriented benchmarks may suffer, but generally yes.
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Sam
06/27/2018, 1:18 PMReact Native is a JavaScript framework for mobile and Kotlin is just a language. The better question is what is the advantage of programming in Kotlin over JavaScript. The answer becomes a lot more obvious at that point.
As far as whether the benefits of adopting the React framework outweigh having to use JavaScript, I would say that answer is a bit less clear. AirBnB had a series of detailed blog posts about their experiences and why they are no longer going to proceed with it. Some points may apply to using Kotlin on iOS most don’t.
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AnaR
06/27/2018, 4:28 PMWe're building games, so, the performance is important. Plus, a lot of our code is already in native Android, so, easier to convert to Kotlin Native to add platforms.
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russhwolf
06/27/2018, 5:04 PMThe question is comparing apples and oranges. React Native and Kotlin Native use the word “native” to mean two different things. React Native is “React using native mobile widgets”. Kotlin Native is “Kotlin compiled to native instead of jvm bytecode”. They both can facilitate cross-platform code-sharing but they’re ultimately doing completely different things.
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amorenew
06/27/2018, 5:11 PMwe could share business logic code and there is a library for sqlite in KN "Knarc.db",
what about a network library in kotlin native so can share more code between android and ios?
amorenew
06/27/2018, 5:12 PMis there anyone was able to port volley lib or retrofit lib to ios in KN?
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russhwolf
06/27/2018, 5:14 PMTake a look at https://github.com/e5l/http-client-common
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amorenew
06/27/2018, 5:21 PMAwesome 👏
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