State of platforms: Fragments Ahmedabad

This will go through the journey of building a blogging app (Medium clone) using Kotlin, Nativescript and Flutter and discuss the differences in developer and user experience for the apps built using all these platforms.

Outline

So I took the famous realworld.io project (which is a clone of Medium) and implemented it in Kotlin for native Android, and then using Nativescript-Vue and finally in Flutter.
Although separate platforms, the end result looks identical to the end user.

We will compare a bunch of things across these three platforms -

1. Developer Experience
2. Performance (out of the box)
3. Performance optimisation learning curve
4. Memory/CPU/App size differences
5. Lines of Code
6. Perceptible jank, smoothness
7. Constraints and limitations of each framework

Requirements

• Knowledge of Java/Kotlin for Android development
• Some prior experience with Javascript (to catch the Nativescript parts quickly)
• An open mind

Speaker bio

Arnav Gupta is the Co-Founder of Coding Blocks, an online + offline software development bootcamp, based out of New Delhi, where he mentors Android and NodeJS students. He has been tinkering with Android, NodeJS and Electronics since school and has contributions to open source projects like the Android OS (AOSP), Arduino IDE, FOSSIA Open Event.
Arnav has been a speaker at many national and international conferences including FOSSASIA, DroidCon India, JsFoo, Fragments, MODS, Devfest Russia and OSDConf.

Links

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgc7EY7uwmbUyKQwLWYDIiVSPvj_nQm6A