New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Learning Android development and I'd like some guideance
Ask HN: Learning Android development and I'd like some guideance
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TL;DR Recently learned React, a bit of Flutter, but instead of learning React Native, I'm learning directly native Android Development after finishing my first app on Flutter. Doing this because I'm developing some apps for myself and also publishing them for free (no ads or any crap) on android only. Should I consider React Native instead since I already know React? Long version: I'm a 43-year-old freelance designer art director who studied to be a sysadmin (this was before dinosaurs got extinct to be fair) but ended up working in advertising. Past five years or so, my mother got sick (brain stroke) and I had a really hard time keeping up with my freelance business whilst I had to take care of the recovery, accompany to rehabilitation, doctors reviews, or help at home because I couldn't afford to hire a full-time nurse, so I've been mostly living from savings and a few sporadic jobs. Nevertheless, the thing about this is that while I've been taking care of all this stuff, I've had some spare time, waiting in the hospital for hours or waiting between rehab sessions, you can have an idea. I took the opportunity to dedicate this time to re-ignite my nerd-self and started a web dev path with react and typescript. Also a few months ago published my first android app done in Flutter. I have a friend with lots of experience who asked me Why I'm not learning React Native instead since I know already React and he pointed out like that would be the "correct" path. So with all this, am I really making a bad call going with the android route or Should I consider React Native? Maybe because I don't have plenty of years of experience there is something I'm not foreseeing? The intention of this is to gather some insights about the topic and sane debate, not start any holy war Native vs Not native. Many thanks!
2 by flrnd | 0 comments on Hacker News.
TL;DR Recently learned React, a bit of Flutter, but instead of learning React Native, I'm learning directly native Android Development after finishing my first app on Flutter. Doing this because I'm developing some apps for myself and also publishing them for free (no ads or any crap) on android only. Should I consider React Native instead since I already know React? Long version: I'm a 43-year-old freelance designer art director who studied to be a sysadmin (this was before dinosaurs got extinct to be fair) but ended up working in advertising. Past five years or so, my mother got sick (brain stroke) and I had a really hard time keeping up with my freelance business whilst I had to take care of the recovery, accompany to rehabilitation, doctors reviews, or help at home because I couldn't afford to hire a full-time nurse, so I've been mostly living from savings and a few sporadic jobs. Nevertheless, the thing about this is that while I've been taking care of all this stuff, I've had some spare time, waiting in the hospital for hours or waiting between rehab sessions, you can have an idea. I took the opportunity to dedicate this time to re-ignite my nerd-self and started a web dev path with react and typescript. Also a few months ago published my first android app done in Flutter. I have a friend with lots of experience who asked me Why I'm not learning React Native instead since I know already React and he pointed out like that would be the "correct" path. So with all this, am I really making a bad call going with the android route or Should I consider React Native? Maybe because I don't have plenty of years of experience there is something I'm not foreseeing? The intention of this is to gather some insights about the topic and sane debate, not start any holy war Native vs Not native. Many thanks!
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