Sharing Mobile Development
Why Go Native Mobile If Possible
Frameworks always come with overheads with added risks
On and off, we are being asked, “Why don’t you consider Flutter or React Native?” To some business owners, that sounds like a no-brainer. One can save the cost of development without “losing anything”.
There’s no doubt that cross-platform development frameworks like Flutter and React Native has many benefits, especially from a cost point of view, possibly consistent implementation and faster to market.
If one has a new idea of a new app, or prototype to explore and test out, and has a limited budget to spend, cross-platform would be a very lucrative consideration.
But if one organization has already invested in both Native Platforms, and has a well-established app used by millions, do stay with native because…
1. Rebuilding the App takes times
Android Development is now using Kotlin and iOS is on Swift. As far as I know, none of the cross-platform frameworks is using these two languages. Their development environment is very different from the native
Hence rebuilding the team and setting up a new app on a cross-platform framework requires much time, both…
