Articles tagged native
Build REST APIs and Native Java Apps with Helidon
Project Helidon is a set of Java libraries for writing microservices. It’s an open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, Oracle-sponsored project and contains support for MicroProfile as well as a reactive, functional API. Helidon’s two different styles are known as Helidon MP and SE, respectively. The helidon.io website says: Since Helidon is simply a collection of Java libraries running on a fast Netty core, there is no extra overhead or bloat. Today, I’m going to put this...
Build Native Java Apps with Micronaut, Quarkus, and Spring Boot
Java has been able to invoke native programs on an operating system for decades. Invoking native programs is often done using JNI (Java Native Interface) and JNA (Java Native Access). In the last few years, Java has also gained the ability to run JVM apps as native apps. That is, they’re binary executables that have no dependency on the Java runtime. This is huge! Mostly because it gives Java apps the ability to start up...
Build an App for iOS and Android with Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross-platform technology that makes it possible to build native applications for Android and iOS using a single, shared codebase. Like other technologies such as React Native and NativeScript, it allows development teams to spend less time writing code for both platforms. Xamarin is open-source (and free). Under the hood, it uses Mono (a version of the Microsoft .NET runtime), so Xamarin apps are usually written in C#. You can build Xamarin apps...