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Android SDK vs Django Channels: What are the differences?
Android SDK: An SDK that provides you the API libraries and developer tools necessary to build, test, and debug apps for Android. Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment; Django Channels: It extends Django's abilities beyond HTTP - to handle WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols. It does this by taking the core of Django and adding a fully asynchronous layer underneath, running Django itself in a synchronous mode but handling connections and sockets asynchronously, and giving you the choice to write in either style.
Android SDK and Django Channels belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
Django Channels is an open source tool with 3.94K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Django Channels's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Android SDK has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1471 company stacks & 4884 developers stacks; compared to Django Channels, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
We actually initially wrote a lot of networking code in Kotlin but the complexities involved prompted us to try and compile NodeJS for Android and port over all the networking logic to Node and communicate with node over the Java Native Interface.
This turned out to be a great decision considering our battery usage fell by 40% and rate of development increased by a factor of 2.
Pros of Android SDK
- Android development289
- Necessary for android155
- Android studio128
- Mobile framework86
- Backed by google82
- Platform-tools27
- Eclipse + adt plugin21
- Powerful, simple, one stop environment5
- Free3
- Больно3
Pros of Django Channels
- Open source1