Facebook's mindshare with web devs is gigantic: adding Tizen to React Native is a no-brainer imo. Facebook is a natural ally btw: they've ported all their apps to the Tizen Store, so they seem to think Tizen has potential.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Bob Summerwill <b...@summerwill.net> wrote: > While the technology is interesting, I don't why you are posting this > here, Olivier. > > There is no React Native for Tizen and it is exceedingly unlikely that > Facebook or anybody else would ever bother to build that. There is simply > no market. > > React is a pattern for building applications in a better way. Tizen needs > device install base and it needs ANY applications. We aren't short of > ways to build applications for Tizen. It simply isn't worth bothering > doing. > > You can see that in the recent episode on application-dev where Yair > Solomon has been unable to ship his Unity application for months and it > turns out the final hurdle is that there is use of non-approved Tizen API > in the Unity player itself, meaning in all likelihood that there are ZERO > Unity3D titles in the Tizen Store, in spite of Unity being used for over > 50% of all iOS and Android games. > > All the professional software developers left Tizen a long time ago. Many > of my peers ported their games in 2013, and then gave up waiting for a > market to get any money back on their work. Especially after OSP was > dropped, breaking every single native app. Like most games. > > Technology is not the answer. Lack of communication and > command-and-control culture are the problem. > > Tizen is very hostile and unappealing to professional developers and there > is just no install base to justify the risk of investment. I would love > that not to be the case, but that is the unvarnished reality. > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Olivier Nyssen <nysse...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> “Cordova renders to web views — HTML, the DOM, basically — whereas React >> Native renders natively, to native views — UIKit, Android views. They look >> different and feel different, you manipulate them in different ways, and >> you have more capabilities, we think.” >> >> >> https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352/react-native-for-android-how-we-built-the-first-cross-platform-react-native-app/ >> > > "React Native <https://facebook.github.io/react-native/> is Facebook's > open-source framework for building native mobile apps using JavaScript. > Unlike PhoneGap/Cordova, React Native provides bindings for native UI > controls which totally outclass HTML-based hybrid solutions. After playing > with the sample app for a while, I decided to jettison my Cordova codebase > and rewrite the Circadi <http://www.circadi.com/> app using this new > framework. It took me about 96 working hours to finish an MVP, now > published on the App Store > <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circadi/id1035015954?ls=1&mt=8>. My > overall experience with React Native is positive. I'm going to give an > account of my key findings below for people who're considering to adopt the > framework." > > http://blog.zmxv.com/2015/09/what-i-learned-from-building-react.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@lists.tizen.org > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general > >
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