Flutter vs React Native - Choosing Your Approach

Introduction

If you’re a mobile app developer, you understand how important it is when selecting the right framework for your project. But this decision depends on several factors. In this article, we will take a closer look at Flutter and React Native - two frameworks that are extremely popular (and are of course supported by ButterCMS with our guides and starter projects for adding our headless CMS to your app). The goal of this article is to help highlight the differences between each framework and help you consider which is the best fit for your project and your level of expertise.

A look back in time: Why cross-platform frameworks arose

We could render UI over the web long before powerful mobile OSes were even conceived. However, these websites had to run their code through several layers of abstraction to finally reach any native API. Before we start comparing types of app development frameworks it’s really important to first ponder: What is a mobile application? 

What is a mobile application?

In essence, a mobile application is a program that has easy access to device computation and APIs along with UI components that are defined by the OS itself. This computation of power access makes the UI render much faster and seems smoother, hence beating web performance. And the ease (or even possibility) of access to native APIs made app development distinguishable from developing a website or a web app.

Once we started developing for native applications with Android, iOS, and other teams, the simplicity of web development in regards to portability was sincerely missed. 

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