The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android

The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android Until very recently, Dropbox had a technical strategy on mobile of sharing code between iOS and Android via C++. The idea behind this strategy was simple—write the code once in C++ instead of twice in Java and Objective C. We adopted this C++ strategy back in 2013, when our mobile engineering team was relatively small and needed to s

[yarumato]

“Dropbox iOS/Android C++使って共通化してたがやめた->Java/ObjCで共通化しなくなった。共通化は多くのoverheadがある。”

[braitom]

DropboxではiOS、Androidアプリ開発においてC++で共通ライブラリ等を作りそれを介して開発をしていたが様々な面でオーバーヘッドが大きすぎるので結局それぞれのネイティブ言語で開発をするようになったという話