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Introduction:
In today’s developing market, Mobile application development for businesses is a necessity for most organizations. Most of companies need both android & iOS apps with reliable, stable & fast development. Therefore platforms are created for the development of both the technology on one platform. These sorts of development platforms are known as Cross Platforms. Before this developers use Xcode & Swift for IOS app Development.While Android developers use Android Studio & Kotlin or java to develop their respective apps. Due to <b>Cross Platforms now these apps can be developed on a single coding system for both android & iOS.The two big players in this industry are React Native & Flutter.
What is React Native?
React Native is a cross-platform which was created by Facebook in 2013 for an internal project named ‘Hackathon’ later on in January 2015 React js was introduced and on March 26, 2015, Facebook released React Native open and available on Github for developers.It can help you for android app development, windows, iOS,macOS, TVs, webs & different universal window platforms using react framework with help of native platform capabilities.
Advantages of React Native
Less Time Consuming:
React Native is really lesser time-consuming than developing apps on android & ios. If we count on an example base, let’s suppose an android app on an avg takes 60-90days to be developed while an iOS app takes 60-90 days on an avg while an avg RN app can be developed in 50-60 days so it takes around 33% less time than other sources.
Small Team:
The team developing an android app or IOS app needs 4-6 developers to develop both apps. The Rn only takes 3-4 developers to develop an app which is again smaller than the other two
High Performing:
It is a high-performing application as it uses the whole system which provides great speed, good graphics, and fast reloading.
Secure:
Security is the main aspect of any application and its performance. react-native provides a secure platform natively.
Target Multiple OS:
It’s really amazing that one code can run multiple Os. Nevertheless, you will have two applications with a single code with different functions.
Ready-Made Components:
This is a really good thing for developers as well as the application owners as they don’t have to develop apps from scratch they can simply apply the component from the made ones.
Drawbacks of React Native
- debugging & compatibility.
- custom modules still lack.
- need an extra native developer to the team.
What is Flutter?
On the other hand, Flutter is a cross-platform which is developed by Google and released in May 2017 three years before now. Its first version was named ‘Sky’ which was for the android and was released by a dart in 2015 with the ability to render for 120 frames/second. It’s another preview that was released on google developers day. Thereafter Flutter 1.0. Was released On December 4, 2018, it was released at the Flutter Live event, with the first stable framework. On December 11, 2019, another Flutter 1.12 was released at the Flutter Interactive event. On May 6, 2020, the Dart SDK in version 2.8 and the Flutter in version 1.17.0 were released, where support was added to the Metal API, which helps to improve performance on iOS devices (approximately 50%), new Material widgets, and new network tracking. it latest release was on 14th of November of 2020. Flutter helps you to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase.
Advantages of Flutter
Own Rendering Engine:
Flutter has amazing custom widgets which help companies to get the best out of the design for android as well as for IOS respectively. The design of UI can be the same for all the platforms of the company or different for each as well.
Proper documentation:
Flutters allow you to work for the web and also to check the working of the native which leads you to proper documentation.
Relatively Fast development:
Flutter is relatively faster than android as well as iOS development. it is also faster than many cross-platforms available in the market relatively. As well as you do not need two teams working on the same product.
Hot reload:
Flutter provides the feature of fast reloading which allows the system to update the code asap. it can also change the code very fast. So you can work quickly on it.
High in performance:
Flutter performance is relatively higher than any of the platforms available; it is 60fps at a contemporary screen display with a clear and smooth screen image. Which is not only good but will work with any of the systems.
Drawbacks of Flutter
- file sizes may be big.
- feature not from flutter plugin may lack as they not too much compatible.
- Developers should be knowing dart programming till some extent.
Comparison Between React Native & Flutter
The platform can be compared on 3 things:-
Framework:
While Flutter has its own framework and reacts native needs native to put the framework.
Speed,security & Ui :
Working speed on both the platforms are faster than android or iOS but flutter has its developed plugins to be used for some functions so it can be relatively faster. Both the platform is secured because are created but top companies google & Facebook. react-native can’t replicate the same UI on both the system but flutter can provide this function.
Compatible,stability & smoothness :
Flutter is more compatible in terms of engineering, UI, and further support than react native. Instability also flutter is more stable than react native as it is fast and coding can be changed quickly as well less debugging issues. While react native is smoother than flutter as flutter consume more memories as the file are large but still it doesn’t affect its performance.
Hopefully, I have covered most of the points for a layman to understand what is react to native & flutter as well as their pros & cons and the comparison of both the platforms. Now a company can easily decide whether they want to choose flutter or react native.
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