React Native vs Flutter: Choose The Best Framework

In recent years, the demand for mobile apps, increasing to a very large extent so that the developers have searches fast framework to make the app. To make the app fast, many developers have started using a cross-platform app that gives many features to design e-commerce apps, interactive apps, and social apps.

React Native and Flutter, albeit being the two similar facets of cross-platform app development, are always hailed as staunch rivals. Both help developers lessen the Time to Market (TTM) in shipping interactive business applications to clients and thereby improve productivity.

In this article, we compare the leading market players – Flutter and React Native to help you identify which framework best fits your app idea. To understand what is flutter and React Native with its features please click on the link for detailed description.

React Native vs Flutter

• UI

React Native

Application components look just like native ones (e.g. a button on    an iOS device looks just like a native iOS button, and the same on Android).The fact React Native uses native components under the hood should give you  confidence that, after any OS UI update, your app’s components will be instantly upgraded as well.
That said, this can break the app’s UI but it happens very rarely.  

       Flutter

Flutter apps look as good on the up-to-date operating systems as they do on older versions. Since they only have one codebase, the apps look and behave similarly across iOS and Android – but thanks to Material Design and Cupertino widgets, they can also imitate the platform design itself.

• Performance   

React Native

The performance of the React Native app is slow in comparison to the Flutter app. Here, sometimes developers face issues while running the hybrid application architecture. 

       Flutter

The performance of the Flutter application is fast. Flutter compiles the application by using the arm C/C++ library that makes it closer to machine code and gives the app a better native performance.

• Setup & Project Configuration

React Native

Not a lot is thought on making the documentation for a developer to get started. Instead it’s assumed that setup is already done that’s why React Native directly gets to point of creating the first app by writing the command.
$ cd MyProject

      $ npx react-native init MyTestApp

Flutter

It has everything little thing documented from IDE Setup,  platform  specific setup to   a CLI tool called flutter doctor.
$ cd MyProject

      $ flutter create MyProject

• Community Support

React Native

Being the framework which was released first out of the two, it is imminent to get a good amount of support and it surely did since 2015 as it is strongly maintained by the developer on GitHub and from many more communities across the world.

Flutter

Flutter too is on a rapid rise in terms of community support but then again it will take some amount of time for resources to be made available which will eventually enable developers to solve common issues.

• Top applications

React Native

Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Skype, Tesla

      Flutter

Xianyu app by Alibaba, Hamilton app for Hamilton Musical, Google Ads app

 

• Testing

React Native

React Native uses third-party tools that are available for testing the app.

      Flutter

      Flutter provides a very rich set of testing features. This feature allows the develop to perform unit testing, integration testing, and widget testing.

 

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