React Native vs Xamarin: What is the best for cross-platform app development?
Dipanshu Chauhan
Helping brands establish a strong online presence through Web Design, Mobile Application & Digital Marketing
With most brands focusing on platform app development, it is of the utmost importance to ensure that app development takes place on the right type of platform.
There are several options on the market, we are exploring two popular ones: Xamarin and React Native.
What are the advantages of React Native?
1) A large community of developers
2) Cross-platform compatibility
3) Known for optimal performance
4) Affirmative developer experience
What are the disadvantages of React Native?
1) It’s still new
2) Lack of custom modules
3) Limited third-party components
Apps built using React Native
- Uber Eats
- Tesla
- Skype
- Walmart
Xamarin: An app platform for building Android and iOS apps
One of the most popular app platform development platforms on the market is Xamarin. It is an open source platform and can be used to develop apps via .NET and C #. Over time, Xamarin's community has grown to 1.4 million developers in 120 countries. Xamarin is also preferred by many companies in different areas such as energy, transport, healthcare etc.
What are the advantages of Xamarin?
1) API integration
2) C#
3) Effective offline applications
4) Testing environment
What are the disadvantages of Xamarin?
1) Software overheads
2) Pricing
3) Community
Apps built using Xamarin
- Insightly
- Alaska Airlines
- Vanderlande
- FareBoom
- FreshDirect
- The World Bank
React Native vs Xamarin: Understand the difference
React Native is the most in demand frame with 13.1% votes while Xamarin has 4.9% votes. Since both are open source and available for both Android and iOS platforms, the availability becomes almost the same. What is very different is society.
React Native is undoubtedly the winner in terms of availability as it is an open-source JavaScript framework and is available on both iOS and Android platforms. The number of Google search queries on React Native has also increased in recent years.