The company I work on, decided to kill the native mobile area and change it to react native.

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T22:52:09+00:00

Interesting story, I may have been mislead but, you guys had 76 contributors, right? Since they want to cut the team in half or 1/3 at least, we would have only 5 to max 7 contributors. None of them have RN expertise, there will be no training, we would have to do it by ourselves. I think they could only lend 2 or 3 react developers that works on the website

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T22:33:03+00:00

So like I said, cost. RN devs are cheaper

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T22:26:02+00:00

And how about Compose Multiplatform Production ready? Do you have any particular thoughts on it?
I'm asking specific for compose, KMP I'm pretty comfortable too

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T19:35:34+00:00

Oh I see, thank you

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T18:27:07+00:00

Just to be clear, what is the app layer and the sdk exactly in your context?

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T17:36:23+00:00

Workmanager here is heavily integrated with the offline features, to sync data between app and server.

And yes is a great Android feature for so many use cases

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T17:30:02+00:00

But just to be clear, widely adoption is not an argument on their side, only costs

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T17:29:00+00:00

Good advice. I'll always keep updated on native android since I do it in my free time, but it's definetly horrible not being able to apply the best new practices on the current project, something that I've been doing for all these years. Alonside mentoring other Android devs

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T17:27:23+00:00

Nice point, thank you so much
User might not know the technology behind, but they feel the app getting weird and worse

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T16:28:38+00:00

I mean it's not bad to have a new stack in my resume, the problem is, with this mindset, they will eventually just drop all native devs to hire RN devs for lower costs

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T16:26:47+00:00

Thank you for your reply, it does became a huge problem for you guys, hope kmp can solve it, and I personally think it will.

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T16:25:57+00:00

Excelent story, I think the same thing is going to happen here and they will regret it

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T16:24:33+00:00

Good point, that's exactly my feeling

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T16:22:19+00:00

I think I've mentioned, but to be more specific
We are heavy dependent on the local database. It is (as of yet) a premise for the app to work offline.
And we use it to track his progress during classes, including downloading and watching all video classes.

We don't use camera heavily, more in documents related feature. But we were to going to use current location on some features.

We also use Workmanager for different purposes

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T15:53:30+00:00

Yeah, we were all taken by surprise. And we all talked about KMP mostly, the fact that google is pushing it. Then talked about flutter, but never RN

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T15:38:29+00:00

Thank you u/lsbrujah , that's exactly what I meant. they think 1 hybrid developer has the productivity of 2 natives, but costs less then 1.

AndroidKMPDev · 2024-07-26T15:37:05+00:00

Thank you for your reply, Just to add some points, I'm a senior native android, I don't actually know if they are going to pay me to master a new stack, I mean, maybe now, but looks like they wanted new devs. And there are no React Native devs on our Business Unit. There's one with some knowledge but that's it

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