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Consider renaming "SDK" to "Adview" #17

Closed Ivshti closed 5 years ago

Ivshti commented 5 years ago

in adtech, "SDK" is commonly used, but in our case it's merely a component to show an ad for now

dmngdsm commented 5 years ago

It took me some time to understand, that by SDK we don't mean Software Development Kit, being not familiar with Ad tech jargon. Probably switching to adview is really better :

"SDKAcronym for “Software Development Kit”; in the classic software development sense, a SDK is a set of software development tools that enable a developer to create applications for a specific platform i.e. Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android platform; in mobile ad tech however, a SDK is simply a piece of code placed in mobile apps that enables communication with the publisher’s application and advertising software platforms. SDKs have a wide range of uses among them analytics and monetization of mobile applications. Whereas an API serves standard and native formats, an SDK serves interstitial and rich media formats."

Dylanoshi commented 5 years ago

i would 100% agree

Ivshti commented 5 years ago

the way adtech uses the term SDK is not necessarily wrong btw, it's just skewed

but the consensus seems to be that "adview" is better

There's also this: we shouldn't rename things just because we think we can name them better; but in this case, most people just copy-paste a HTML and don't care what's it named, and developers will find "adview manager" more immediately obvious and understandable