Native Vs Cross-Platform in App Development
In this fast-moving world, apps have allowed us to easily interact without any physical limitations. The growth of apps in this era resulted in the need for skilled mobile developers. When we are going to start the App Development, the big question arises whether to go with Native or Cross-Platform Development?
Native Development
Native means which is specific to a platform. It means whether to develop for Android or iOS operating system specifically.
1. We use JAVA & Kotlin to develop Native Android Apps.
2. Similarly, we popularly use Swift & Objective-C to develop iOS Apps.
Native Development is more useful in the case where you want to access the device hardware, building complex UI, achieve better performance, etc. Basically, it is used by big giants who have heavy usage of their applications and they demand customized results and better performance.
For example — Hotstar has different teams of Android & iOS Developers because they have a very high load on their applications and they want better performance.
If we talk about Android Development, developers now prefer Kotlin language more than JAVA, because it is supported by Google. There are many reasons for the higher preference of Kotlin like it provides null safety, concise code, data classes, etc.
Moving on to iOS development, I personally think that it has more potential (from job point of view) than Android Development because there are plenty of Android Developers but very few iOS Developers in the market.
Cross-Platform Development
Cross-platform means that which is supportable on all platforms. It means that write code that is supportable both on the Android & iOS operating system. Popularly, we use Flutter & React-Native for Cross-Platform Development.
Cross-Platform is more useful in the case where you want your product to be developed very fast and on a low budget. It is generally used by Small Startups as they do not have a very heavy load on their applications. It is also in very high demand in the freelancing industry as generally, the clients want their product to be launched fast.
Flutter is a framework (by Google) that uses Dart language. It gives many unique features like we can build PWA (Progressive Web Apps) using it. Flutter community is comparatively small than the Native one, but I believe that it has very high potential in the near future.
React Native (by Facebook) uses Javascript to build applications. It is commonly used with React which gives an easy path for web developers to try their hands on mobile development with little training.
At last, I want to conclude that both types of development are amazing. It depends on your need if you want to develop many products that are supportable on both Android & iOS devices, then go with Flutter. And if you want to go to top MNCs then you should probably go with Native Development.
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