At Google I/O 2018, Xianyu’s team showcased their large‑scale adoption of Flutter—highlighting a hybrid architecture, AI‑driven UI‑to‑code generation workflow, collaboration with the Flutter team, and insights from the event’s Flutter party and the CEO’s Duplex AI demo.
This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of Flutter, covering its Dart‑based architecture, layered widget system, event handling, animation, navigation, plugin ecosystem, performance and APK size comparisons with WebView‑based frameworks, React Native, and native Android/iOS development.
This article details eBay's 11‑year journey in automating system‑wide patch deployment across Windows and Linux servers, covering challenges, process evolution, security considerations, testing strategies, and future plans for kernel hot‑patching and container‑based updates.
This article explains how Alibaba's mobile Taobao team replaced native code with Weex and BindingX to create sophisticated card‑style interactions—such as sliding, scaling, background transitions, and custom navigation—while improving performance, reducing development effort, and open‑sourcing the solution.
This newsletter highlights design principles for massive JavaScript applications, secure sandboxing techniques for Node.js, the latest Node.js 10 and V8 6.6 features, WebAssembly debugging, and the CRNWEB framework enabling a single codebase across React‑Native, web, and PWA platforms.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the .NET platform’s evolution, covering the original .NET Framework, its comparison with Java, the rise of Mono for cross‑platform support, the introduction of .NET Standard, the modern .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, and guidance on tooling and learning resources.
This article explains the functional architecture of video players, details the multimedia engine workflow, compares web, Flash, Android, and iOS playback technologies, and addresses common challenges such as audio‑video synchronization, fast start, low latency, and buffering.
This article explains how Electron lets web developers create cross‑platform desktop applications with familiar JavaScript and Node.js, compares it to NW.js, outlines learning stages, offers documentation tips, and provides guidance on selecting and extending useful demo projects.
This tutorial walks through a complete, automated workflow for turning an Electron project into installable Windows .exe/.msi and macOS .dmg packages, covering directory structure, configuration, building, code signing, installer creation, and release steps using Gulp and related tools.
JSSDK is a development tool that enables H5 developers to quickly build apps by facilitating app invocation, cross-platform compatibility, and parameter handling, reducing development time and complexity through modular design and automated version management.
This article details JD.com's three‑platform JDReact solution built on React Native, describing the original mobile development pain points, RN's benefits and limitations, the customized architecture, performance and memory optimizations, gray‑release and fallback mechanisms, CI/CD workflow, and monitoring practices that enable stable cross‑platform app delivery.
SQL Server 2017 introduces AI integration, cross‑platform support, Python and R machine‑learning capabilities, stronger data‑layer security, and enhanced BI tools, offering enterprises smarter data management and more flexible, powerful analytics across diverse environments.
This article recounts a baffling C bug where Microsoft's tmpfile() on Windows creates files in C:\, causing a stray backslash to comment out code, and explains how replacing a ternary operator with an if‑else fixed the issue while illustrating common cross‑platform pitfalls.
This article chronicles the development of our hybrid mobile technology from its 2014 inception, detailing the architectural decisions, bridgeJS integration, multi‑platform "N‑in‑1" strategy, tooling choices, performance optimizations, and future directions for efficient cross‑platform mobile app delivery.
Qunar React Native (QRN) is a customized cross‑platform mobile framework built on React Native that unifies iOS and Android UI, reduces app size, supports hot updates, offline bundles, custom IconFont, and has been deployed at massive scale within Qunar’s travel app.
The article introduces Qunar's Hy hybrid mobile framework, detailing its motivation, cross‑platform architecture, progressive component design, integration of Web and Native capabilities, evolution from Hy 1.0 to Hy 2.0 with React, and its relationship to React‑Native, highlighting how it enables fast, low‑cost mobile development.
An in‑depth look at WeChat’s Mars library reveals how a cross‑platform, high‑availability network component was designed, evolved through three phases, tackled real‑world mobile challenges, and was refactored and open‑sourced to support Android, iOS and other platforms.
During Alibaba’s 2016 Double 11 shopping festival, the Weex framework was deployed at massive scale, covering over 99% of pages, delivering high‑performance native‑like experiences, supporting complex interactions, ensuring stability through memory management, pre‑loading and extensive testing, while outlining architecture, tooling, and optimization strategies.
This article details Qunar's experience optimizing React Native ListView performance, covering RN's internal implementation, identified bottlenecks, and two practical solutions—JavaScript‑based cell reuse and a native UITableView bridge—while also comparing RN with Weex and discussing cross‑platform considerations.
WeChat’s Mars library, a C++‑based cross‑platform network component used across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and more, offers optimized signaling (STN), logging (XLOG), diagnostics (SDT) and core utilities, enabling reliable mobile connections and simplifying development, and will soon be open‑sourced.
This article shares Ctrip's experience of adopting React Native for its train ticket business, covering why RN was chosen, its current state, the Ctrip RN framework, practical implementation details, encountered pitfalls, and various optimization techniques to achieve near‑native performance and rapid iteration.
The article introduces React Web, a framework that extends React Native components and APIs to the browser, allowing a single codebase to run unchanged on iOS, Android, and web, thereby improving development efficiency, reducing costs, and addressing performance and compatibility challenges.
The article summarizes Wu Zhihua's presentation at the WOT2016 summit, detailing the Weex cross‑platform framework, its ecosystem, performance optimizations, competitive advantages, challenges faced during Alibaba's Double‑11 promotion, and the project's future development goals for the next one to two years.
This guide details how to move an Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 single‑instance database from Windows to a three‑node RAC on Linux using Data Guard, covering compatibility, required patches, configuration steps, parameter settings, and post‑migration tasks to ensure a fast, low‑downtime transition.
This article chronicles the evolution of the .NET framework from its 2002 debut through major open‑source milestones, details the emergence of .NET Core as a cross‑platform solution, and discusses its future prospects for developers.
The article presents a technical overview of Ctrip's Moles framework, which extends React Native to allow a single JavaScript codebase to run on iOS, Android, H5, and SEO platforms, detailing its architecture, components, usage commands, real‑world deployment, and open‑source plans.
This guide walks you through what Weex is, where to obtain it, how to set up the Android environment and weex‑toolkit, and provides a step‑by‑step example—including template, style, and script code—to run a simple Hello World app on Android, while noting common pitfalls and solutions.
This article introduces Electron, the open‑source framework that lets you create cross‑platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, showcases popular apps built with it, and provides a step‑by‑step hello‑world example with code and setup instructions.
The article introduces Alibaba’s Weex framework, announced at QCon 2016, detailing its motivation, cross‑platform architecture, performance benchmarks, testing strategies, and three deployment modes—full‑page, native component, and H5 component—aimed at balancing performance and dynamic capabilities in mobile development.
The article explains why allocating an array with new sample[10] yields zero‑initialized memory on Linux but uninitialized memory on Windows, clarifies the difference between default and value initialization in C++, and shows how various new expressions behave with concrete code examples.
This tutorial explains how to compile the Swift standard library for Android armv7, build required dependencies, create a simple Swift program, deploy the binaries via ADB, and successfully run a "Hello, Android" application on an Android device.
Docker, built on Linux container technologies, offers a portable, cross‑platform runtime environment and a rich ecosystem—including image registries, orchestration tools, and cloud integrations—that simplifies development, deployment, and management of distributed applications, while providing resource isolation, high utilization, and DevOps automation.
During the second day of Microsoft Build 2016, Xamarin was showcased as a free, open‑source solution that lets Visual Studio users develop, test, and monitor Android and iOS applications on Windows, including an iOS simulator previously limited to macOS.
The article examines common mobile development scenarios—custom camera with filters, offline OCR, cross‑platform audio encoding, real‑time video streaming, and 3D gaming—to assess whether HTML5 can meet these requirements, concluding that while HTML5 simplifies presentation, native development remains essential for performance‑critical and hardware‑intensive features.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of React Native, covering its motivation and design principles, the recent migration of Alibaba’s iPad “Guess You Like” feature, detailed planning for integration, and potential risks such as platform support, performance, and App Store policies.
This article explains Weex's lightweight, extensible, high‑performance architecture, detailing component development, local transformation, client‑side rendering, server deployment, and HTML5 fallback, while showcasing code examples and visual diagrams of its cross‑platform workflow.
This article details a cross-terminal technical solution for implementing the Double 11 secret-code red-envelope activity on Taobao and Tmall, covering requirements, responsive design for Phone, Pad and PC, native poplayer integration, KISSY module usage, and final visual results across devices.
WebP, introduced by Google in 2010, can reduce image file size by up to 40% compared to JPEG without losing quality, and this guide explains its advantages, compatibility challenges, and practical solutions for browsers, iOS, and Android using JavaScript detection and platform‑specific handling.
The article reviews recent cross‑platform mobile development techniques—including Web‑based hybrid, code‑conversion, compilation, and virtual‑machine streams—examining their performance, functionality limitations, and practical tools such as j2objc, MyAppConverter, Sharpen, Haxe, and XMLVM.
This article surveys the most widely used JavaScript frameworks for mobile web development, highlighting their touch‑optimized features, cross‑platform capabilities, lightweight nature, and support for HTML5/CSS3 standards, helping developers quickly build responsive mobile applications across iOS, Android, and other devices.
The article examines Google’s upcoming Quantum Paper design framework, its relationship to Polymer, leaked UI screenshots, and how the unified approach could reshape user experiences across Android, iOS, and web platforms while offering developers a single component library.
