android VS mobile

Compare android vs mobile and see what are their differences.

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android mobile
26 5
2,052 5,663
3.8% 0.7%
9.5 6.2
1 day ago 25 days ago
Kotlin Go
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

android

Posts with mentions or reviews of android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

mobile

Posts with mentions or reviews of mobile. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.
  • Is it possible to create a Mobile app in golang??
    4 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jan 2023
    Currently I am learning golang. And I just thought why not create an Android app in GoLang... And luckly I stumbled upon this GitHub repo: https://github.com/golang/mobile - checked the docs but was not able to comprehend the terms: native, SDK apps, stuff...
  • Why you should use a Go backend in Flutter
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022
    If you use C#, Java, or Node.js for developing your backend, you may have to rewrite the same existing business logic in Dart on the Flutter frontend. The Go mobile project offers a way to call Go code from the platform-specific mobile development environments, i.e., Java and Android.
  • Making an Android app based in C?
    3 projects | /r/androiddev | 5 Sep 2021
    NDK is a fairly cursed thing dude, depending on your background I can suggest either looking at how golang interop is implemented (here or here), or going for flutter/dart ffi.
  • Uploading an image to IPFS from an Android phone?
    5 projects | /r/ipfs | 29 Mar 2021
    The other way is waaaay more complex, run a IPFS node directly on the android phone with their go-ipfs lib and making use of go mobile lib. Check this one https://github.com/cusspvz/react-native-ipfs
  • Going Places: How I used Golang for literally every part of an IoT system
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2021
    This part is one that I struggled the most with as the gomobile package is unstable and also lacks documentation and guides (as we all could have guessed that it's rarely used in a practical sense).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing android and mobile you can also consider the following projects:

room-assistant - Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level

TinyGo - Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

WearAuthn - Use your Wear OS watch as a FIDO2 security key via Bluetooth and NFC.

Shizuku - Using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

VeraCrypt - Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

find3 - High-precision indoor positioning framework, version 3.

keepassxc - KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

dohot - DoHoT: making practical use of DNS over HTTPS over Tor

desktop - Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.