teckyio / liphy-iot-workshop

Building your first IoT Application

Agenda & Objective

1. Introduction to IoT applications

2. Quick way to build a cross-platform IoT application

3. LiPHY Quick Start Demo

4. Learn a bit about React & React Native

Why do we need a native mobile application?

Common technologies that IoT native applications use

• Bluetooth (Bluetooth/BLE)
• Local Area Network (Wi-Fi, zeroconf)
• Voices (Microphone)
• Videos (Camera)
• Cloud

Native App vs Cross-platform App

Native App

Pros

• Official support of the above common interfaces
• Access to all available features
• Native performance

Cons

• Write everything twice
• Learn everything twice
• More costly to maintain (?)

Cross-platform App

Pros

• Write once
• Less time consuming to build a MVP

Cons

• Performance issues
• May have to rewrite some native only modules
• No stable solution yet

Available Choices

• 😐 PhoneGap (HTML, CSS, JS)
• 👍🏻 Flutter (Dart)
• 👍🏻👍🏻 React Native (React, CSS, JavaScript)

Status of Cross-platform App

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