- It's quite popular these days for one mobile app to be built in both platform iOS and Android. Despites the fact that the hybrid technology is becoming more popular these days, these hybrid technologies are still built based on the core components of each platform, which is why understanding core components of each platform is a required for building mobile app these days. - In this talk, I will discuss about the similarities and differences between these two platforms in some aspects: Application life cycles, Views animation mechanism, Security, Push Notification mechanism,... Speaker: Lộc Võ - Freelance Mobile Developer

1. Compare ios and android
platform
Loc Vo

2. About me
● Started working with ios since iphone 1, iOS 2.0
● Started working with Android since Android 4.1
● After that, spent a couple of years working with backend and frontend
(NodeJS, Backbone, AngularJS)

3. Outline
● Architecture
● Views
● Controllers
● Data
● App-app communication
● Server-App communication

4. Architectures

9. Structure of an android app

11. Structure of an ios app

12. Views

13. Layout File
IOS Android

14. iOS Storyboard
● Save many screens in the
same file.
● Logic of screen switching.

15. Android views

16. Some notes
● Previously, ios use auto-scaling strategy
● Recent version, iOS support constraint -> become more and more
similar to Android

17. Animation

18. Common use cases
● View transition
● Screen transition
● View transform

19. iOS

20. OpenGL ES

21. Controller

22. IOS - DataSource and Delegate

23. Android - Adapter

24. Database / Datastorage

25. iOS
● Support Private File Storage
● Not support public file storage (except
iCloud, photo library)
● Support Private File Storage
● Do support External / Public file storage
Android

26. iOS
● Support CoreData (Based on SQL Lite)
● Natively support ORM
● Support SQL Lite
● Now, have Room (ORM)
Android

27. Application Life Cycle

28. Android Life Cycle
●

29. iOS Application Life Cycle

30. App to app communication

31. iOS
● Open app by url
● Register file type
● AirDrop
● Open app by url
● Content provider
Android

32. Deep Linking technique
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34. Server-App communication

35. iOS
● Local push notification
● Remote push notification
● Pushkit notification
● Broadcast message
● Push notification
● Notification Channel
Android
More customization at the
notification’s styles

36. Push
Notifications
● Similar mechanism
between two platform
● Tools
○ Pusher
○ OneSignal

37. App Permission - Runtime vs
Install time?

39. App Permission
IOS
- Ask for each permission separately in
run-time
Android
- Ask for all permission when install app
- Ask for each permission separately in
run-time
Soft-asking permission techniques

41. iOS - Enterprise applications
● Use undocumented API

42. Q&A