Android is over 70% of the market.

imaginenore · on Feb 11, 2016

But Apple is over 60% of the market, which a more important metric for most developers.

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/2015-q1...

(I'm an Android guy myself, just trying to be realistic)

frozenport · on Feb 11, 2016

But React apps aren't the kind you sell (like games), instead they are typically used to display data from a server - rather than process it.

Take a look at the showcase, all these apps are free! https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

iLoch · on Feb 10, 2016

Pretty easy when pretty much anything with any version of Android OS on it constitutes as "Android". For comparison, as of February 8th, 94% of all iOS devices are on iOS 8 or later, with 82% of those on iOS 9.

frozenport · on Feb 10, 2016

Since Android 2.3, I haven't had much trouble sharing code across versions.

iLoch · on Feb 10, 2016

Performance is the major problem. Getting the code to run isn't really an issue anymore.

frozenport · on Feb 11, 2016

Interesting, for fun, can you share a story where changing Android versions resulted in a performance regression?

My problems were limited to bugs in the OGL Java wrapper in Android 2.x.

iLoch · on Feb 11, 2016

I cannot. However the performance of the apps on my colleagues' phones serves as enecdotal evidence IMO.

daverecycles · on Feb 10, 2016

We 100% plan to support Android.