Flutter vs React Native - Which is best to choose for app?

Flutter vs React Native

A question that would kill the developer’s sleep for weeks. The most inevitable confusion that developers endure in cross-platform app development is not deciding the features but the framework. Why is it so confusing? Because both frameworks are the best in the market and provide exotic features that make app building easier than ever. So, choosing one means missing out on the features that the other platform offers.

We have listed the pros and cons each platform has in this blog and also made a quick comparison for you to understand which platform is best suited for your app.

What is Flutter?

Flutter is the open-source UI toolkit created by google to develop cross-platform apps with a single codebase. Flutter allows easy and faster app development across platforms like IOS, Android, and even the Web. Flutter comes with a complete widgets and tools kit that can ace up the development process.

Flutter can be of two parts: SDK and a framework. The SDK is the software development kit that comes with a package of widgets and tools while the Flutter framework is a UI library based on the widgets. It comes with reusable UI elements like buttons and text inputs that can be reused and personalized as per your needs.

Pros of Flutter

Same business logic across platforms:

Flutter uses a single codebase for all the platforms, which means you develop once and deploy it everywhere, this can be time and energy-saving. You need not hire different developers for each platform rather a one-time development is all needed. This can be easy in debugging and fixing the bugs in the future.

Quicker Development:

Now that there is only one code to develop, test and fix, the development cycle is quick and fast. Apart from this, the Hot reload option helps in making the changes without rebooting the whole system, this in fact saves a lot of time in developing.

Cons of Flutter

Large Files:

The major drawback that comes with flutter is larger files. Not every user is fond of making space for a large app. This sometimes pushes the developers to opt for a different tool to develop irrespective of the amazing features flutter has to offer.

Insufficient Third Party libraries:

Third-party libraries are free, open-source packages that help the developer with certain features. Flutter is a young framework, lacks such easily available, pre-tested features. So, developers have to wait for long or choose an alternate tool for development.

What is React Native?

React Native is an open-source framework for cross-platform app development with a single code base. It allows the users to develop native rendered apps for mobile in android and IOS.

React native is a product of Facebook and has been used in building many successful apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Skype. React Native is different from React, though it is based on it. React native is built on the React-JavaScript library. uses JavaScript for development.

Pros of React Native

Cost-Effective Development

The react native development is cost-effective, as all you need is one development team that is fluent in one programming language for multiple platforms. Javascript is quite a common language that is popular among developers, so it is quite cost-effective in terms of cutting down the team size and even being able to build an effective app.

The apps have a stable growth:

The React Native apps have a brief abstraction that allows the user to work on the app without worrying about getting into the details of the platform. The react native app has a set of components that is aware of how to display the app.

Cons Of React Native

Debugging is a difficult task:

Debugging in React Native can be hard, since the code is developed using Java, C, and other hard languages. More than this the code swings between the native code and the JavaScript that the React Native app is developed with. This issue is however overcome by using Flipper to integrate the code.

Too many updates to deal with:

React Native keeps releasing updates every week. It is true that the framework is being enhanced with each update, but since the updates happen very frequently the developers lack time to understand and adapt to the new changes.

If you are still confused or searching for a good app development team, you can reach NYL technologies. We are a mobile application development company in Chennai, who can help you with both React Native Apps and Flutter Apps. Now build your app with us.