
Listener Question - How do we combat the rising tide of cross platform on mobile?
05/21/24 • 13 min
Thanks for the suggestion on this topic. We often see folks asking why cross-platform is such a great idea, but we don't usually discuss why it can also be a bad idea and how we can promote native platform development.
This can be incredibly challenging for companies that see the one code base for cross-platform development as reduced development time and cost without considering the long-term consequences.
- (00:00) - Introduction
- (01:10) - DevClub Discord
- (01:27) - Listener Question
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- (06:54) - Native code is easier to maintain
- (10:44) - Rate and review
- (11:42) - Support the podcast
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Thanks for the suggestion on this topic. We often see folks asking why cross-platform is such a great idea, but we don't usually discuss why it can also be a bad idea and how we can promote native platform development.
This can be incredibly challenging for companies that see the one code base for cross-platform development as reduced development time and cost without considering the long-term consequences.
- (00:00) - Introduction
- (01:10) - DevClub Discord
- (01:27) - Listener Question
- (06:34) - Become a Patreon member
- (06:54) - Native code is easier to maintain
- (10:44) - Rate and review
- (11:42) - Support the podcast
Become a Patreon member and help this Podcast survive
https://www.patreon.com/compileswift
Please leave a review and show your support
https://lovethepodcast.com/compileswift
You can also show your support by buying me a coffee
https://peterwitham.com/bmc
Follow me on Mastodon
https://iosdev.space/@Compileswift
- flanker
- Jay Wilson
- Adam Wulf
- bitSpectre
- Arclite
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Compile Swift Podcast - Listener Question - How do we combat the rising tide of cross platform on mobile?
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What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Compile Swift Podcast. I'm your host, Peter Witham, and you can find this this podcast at compileswift.com. It has been a while. I think it's actually been almost a month since the last episode. Now there's few reasons for that. Firstly, I'm just super crazy busy with work, which on one side is always nice, of course. And on the flip side, I you know, you gotta do the day job. Right? So sometimes
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