Part 1

Mobile Development in 2021

Native, Cross-Platform, or Web?

In June of 2021, I was lucky enough to take part in the Codebar Literary Festival, a collaboration between codebar.io and The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

As stated on codebar’s website:

codebar is a charity that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free regular programming workshops for minority groups in tech.

Great event, great purpose, and I had a blast talking about the current state of mobile development.

If you wish you could have seen that presentation, you’re in luck! All the presentations from the Literary Festival are available on YouTube, including mine:

If you prefer reading to watching, you’re also in luck! The following post is a written version of the same topic. This isn’t a transcription of the talk but me re-telling the same general story again.

tl;dr

Short on time/attention span? Following is a quick summary of what we’ll be covering.

We have three primary options for mobile dev in 2021:

• Native
• Cross-platform (for example…