Flutter or React Native: What to Choose for Mobile App Development

Mrmmbs Vision
3 min readDec 13, 2021

From startups to large enterprises the only aim carried away is to serve its customers the best. To provide them all the ease in one place, with technology and usage of mobile at an expansion spree enterprises and corporations are looking forward to developing mobile apps. The app assists its users to access the information anytime, anywhere in just one touch.

As per the reports, around 40% of small-scale businesses are using mobile apps, and around 30% of corporations are thinking of developing one. Developing an app that carries tremendous performance, is cross-platform, and helps developers to work easily and effectively is a task. In the competing world, for an Android App Development Company, the ultimate goal is to select a platform or a framework that offers several benefits to the developers and is also cross-platform.

To access the faster way to develop and deliver an app nowadays companies are looking for frameworks like Ionic, flutter, and React native, etc. With these points said, in today’s blog we will be discussing the comparison between flutter and react native.

  1. Introduction
  2. Language stack
  3. Features
  4. Architecture
  5. Performance
  6. Popular apps

Introduction: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Creation of Google in the year 2017 Flutter is an open-source User Interface toolkit that helps build fast and beautiful applications for mobile, web, and desktop.

WHEREAS

React Native: Creation of Facebook in the year 2015 React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework that helps develop a real and native mobile app for both iOS and Android platforms.

Language Stack: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Flutter uses a general-purpose programming language named Dart for developing high-quality, mission-critical apps.

WHEREAS

React Native: React Native uses the programming language JavaScript for the easier development of the mobile app.

Features: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Flutter provides an easy and simple method with essential features that helps build a rich and beautiful set of mobile applications. Features like open-source, hot reload accessible native features, minimal codes, etc.

WHEREAS

React Native: React Native provides several benefits that make it a widely used platform or framework for mobile app development. Features offered are open-source, performance, User Interface focus, support for the third-party library, etc.

Architecture: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Flutter uses the architecture of the Dart app that provides unidirectional data flow inspired by Flux. The architecture implements actions, stores, and others.

WHEREAS

React Native: React Native uses an application architecture known as Flux. The architecture facilitates the creation of client-side applications.

Performance: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Under this point of comparison Flutter wears the crown as it provides the advantage of Dart. It helps the development to happen at a good speed and helps initiate interactions with drive native components.

WHEREAS

React Native: While developing with React Native, the development of a native app comes with extreme performance but the development of Hybrid Apps develops problems. It offers high performance in standard cases.

Popular Apps: Flutter vs React Native

Flutter: Google Ads, Stadia, Reflectly, Groupon, eBays motors app, etc.

WHEREAS

React Native: Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Skype, Tesla, etc.

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