update: update the Cross-Platform Mobile Development with new content#677
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- Adding fresher information
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Some superficial polish; the one thing I'd like to add is links to smaller numbered subsections.
| <chapter title="Different approaches to mobile app development" id="different-approaches-to-mobile-app-development"> | ||
| <p>Cross-platform solutions have evolved significantly over the past decade. Early hybrid tools such as Apache Cordova and Ionic enabled web-based code to be shared across platforms, but often offered limited performance and a poor user experience. Modern compiled frameworks like Kotlin Multiplatform and Flutter deliver near-native performance with broad code reuse while providing deeper access to native platform capabilities.</p> | ||
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| <p>There are four main ways to create an application for both Android and iOS.</p> |
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Should we add a mini-ToC here? The four ways are headers, but they are not shown on the right, so it's harder to keep track of them.
| <p>Cross-platform development is often chosen not only for technical reasons, but also for its business advantages. By sharing code across platforms, teams can reduce duplicated development effort, accelerate feature delivery, and simplify long-term maintenance.</p> | ||
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| <chapter title="Benefits of cross-platform mobile development" id="benefits-of-cross-platform-mobile-development"> | ||
| <p>There are plenty of reasons businesses choose this approach over other options.</p> |
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Again, a mini-ToC would help here: a list without markers, with simple links to chapters below.
| <chapter title="1. Reusable code" id="1-reusable-code"> | ||
| <p>With cross-platform programming, mobile engineers don't need to write new code for every operating system. Using a single codebase allows developers to cut down on time spent doing repetitive tasks, such as API calls, data storage, data serialization, and analytics implementation.</p> | ||
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| <p>Technologies like Kotlin Multiplatform allow you to implement the data, business, and presentation layers of your app just once. Alternatively, you can adopt KMP gradually. Choose a piece of logic that changes frequently and usually goes out of sync, such as filtering, or sorting, make it cross-platform, and then connect it to your project as a microlibrary.</p> |
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Are we married to "microlibrary"? :) It may be quite a big dependency, especially if you share a lot of code.
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I think I see your point. Do you think "shared module" would work instead of "microlibrary"?
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Co-authored-by: Aleksey Zamulla <aleksey.zamulla@jetbrains.com>
Added a mini-ToC to this section. Please take a look
One more mini-ToC, as you suggested. Thanks!
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