Is Native iOS Dev Always Best?
summary
Claims native iOS isn't always best and compares Swift, React Native, Xamarin, Ionic/PhoneGap and Titanium based on real work building and deploying apps. Notes which use cases favor full native performance and fine UI polish, which favor faster cross platform iteration and uniform UX, and which hit barriers like native features (notifications camera) needing bridges and extra testing. Describes apps that reach market, tradeoffs in speed versus platform expertise, and concrete failure modes encountered.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:38Building a Mobile App for Two Platforms: What Are Your Choices?
- 1:59How do you choose? It depends on
- 4:09I wanted to be an Entrepreneur
- 5:03Going All In on Titanium
- 5:49But Titanium Was Ahead of Its Time
- 7:47Returning to Corporate Dev
- 8:10Web-Based/Wrapper
- 16:45Go Deep or Go Broad?
- 18:39At the End of The Day
- 19:32Conclusions
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