{"id":2071,"date":"2019-05-27T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:59:56","slug":"flutter-or-react-native-which-mobile-app-framework-suits-your-business-the-most-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/flutter-or-react-native-which-mobile-app-framework-suits-your-business-the-most-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flutter or React Native: Which Mobile App Framework Suits Your Business the Most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Do you have an app idea and want to bring it to life? If cross-platform application attracts you, you&#x2019;ll love this article. <\/i><\/b><\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 \"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/flutter-or-react-native-which-mobile-app-framework-suits-your-business-the-most-2\/#What_is_Flutter\" title=\"What is Flutter?\">What is Flutter?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/flutter-or-react-native-which-mobile-app-framework-suits-your-business-the-most-2\/#What_is_React_Native\" title=\"What is React Native?\">What is React Native?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/flutter-or-react-native-which-mobile-app-framework-suits-your-business-the-most-2\/#Which_framework_suits_your_needs\" title=\"Which framework suits your needs? &#xA0;\">Which framework suits your needs? &#xA0;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With multiple responsive design frameworks available, selecting the right framework is crucial for any <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/mobile-app-development\/\">mobile application development<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we are talking about two popular open-source frameworks of our time that is winning over the developer&#x2019;s community, Flutter and React Native. Reactive performances, code usability on different platforms, reusable blocks of User Interface are some of the reasons to pick one of these frameworks. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Flutter\"><\/span><b>What is Flutter? <\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flutter is also an open source Software Development Kit developed by Google for designing premium native interfaces on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/android-vs-ios-which-one-should-you-build-first\/\">IOS &amp; Android<\/a><\/strong>. It uses Google&#x2019;s language Dart. Similar to JavaScript, it has an optional built-in type of safety support. It works with existing code which has been created by participants and organizations around the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_React_Native\"><\/span><b>What is React Native? <\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook created React Native as an open-source framework for cross-platform mobile applications. It was launched to create a real and native rendering mobile app. As a mixture of JavaScript and XML-esque markup language, it comes with the potential to manage both iOS and Android apps with a single code base. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both of these frameworks come with their own set of advantages and limitations. We have categorized it into 10 points. Let&#x2019;s check a detailed Flutter vs. React Native comparison for a bright idea. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>1. Release date<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook released React Native in 2015, so, by now, it is already a mature tool and has a huge community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whereas, Google started Flutter in 2017 and slowly started seeing the colossal adaptation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-app-development.webp\" alt=\"flutter-app-development\" width=\"720\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-app-development.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-app-development-300x155.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-app-development-390x202.webp 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Flutter &amp; React Native search on Google trends<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/react-native-app-development.webp\" alt=\"react-native-app-development\" width=\"720\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/react-native-app-development.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/react-native-app-development-300x155.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/react-native-app-development-390x202.webp 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Stack Overflow representation of React Native &amp; Flutter questions<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>2. Stateful hot reloading<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hot reloading is something in which developers write codes, save the code, and hit reload on a mobile app (react mobile app) and reload like a webpage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Flutter and React Native include hot reloading, which is super fast compared to how other native apps recompile in XCode and Android Studio. If there is any error, developers can experiment and fix bugs in no time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it is easy to make changes to a Flutter app while it is running. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>3. Language <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flutter uses Dart as a programming language which is easy to understand for Java developers as it supports most of the object-oriented concepts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React Native uses JavaScript as a programming language. A vast community of programmers are already working on JavaScript so migrating into React Native is much easier for them rather than learning a whole new Dart programming language. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>4. Component <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Flutter, developers get tons of open-source components designed by the Google team. It comes with everything needed to quickly render the UI, including widgets for material design and <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/pslove\/flutter-1-2-cupertino-app-cb4759013370\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cupertino<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whereas in React Native, developers get many built-in <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.github.io\/react-native\/docs\/components-and-apis\" rel=\"nofollow\">components<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the core framework offers just UI rendering and device access APIs. However, developers can create any of the components by using third-party libraries. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>5. Documentation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Flutter documentation is very well-written which developers can easily understand. Though this doesn&#x2019;t mean that the flutter documentation is impressive, in React Native, the developers have to look into third-party documentation.<\/p>\n<h3><b>6. App look <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How closely does your app look like the native app designed on Swift or Java? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though some components look like iOS, many components developed with Flutter look like material. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In react native, once the developers write the components, it automatically adopts for either iOS or Android, and developers don&#x2019;t have to write code anymore. Your app looks very closely like its native app <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>7. Community <\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huge tech companies back both frameworks. However, Google is doing many activities to grow Flutter&#x2019;s community that including an event like Flutter Live. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React Native came up first in the market, so by now, it enjoys excellent support of a mature community of developers and contributors. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>8. Industry adaptation<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The industry has slowly started adopting Flutter; however, it has to come up with impressive features to make a mark. &#xA0;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, many companies are already using React Native. Industry adaptation is quite huge for React Native; this also builds up a lot of job market in React Native world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check some of the popular apps made on both of these frameworks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-vs-react-native-app-development.webp\" alt=\"flutter-vs-react-native-app-development\" width=\"720\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-vs-react-native-app-development.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-vs-react-native-app-development-300x105.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-vs-react-native-app-development-390x137.webp 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<h3><b>9. Stability<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though established tech communities well manage both of the frameworks. Recently, Google launched Flutter 1.2 which comes with improved tools that offer a more stable performance than the previous alpha version. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">React Native since its inception has been popular among developers and valued for its reliability in the industry. It is quite a stable framework from earlier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Summarizing the attribute differences<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-react-native-app-development.webp\" alt=\"flutter-react-native-app-development\" width=\"720\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-react-native-app-development.webp 720w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-react-native-app-development-300x238.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/flutter-react-native-app-development-390x309.webp 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Which_framework_suits_your_needs\"><\/span><b>Which framework suits your needs? &#xA0;<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flutter allows overwriting codes, so when your developer plans to recycle codes, flutter allows reusability. It also allows easy testing of your project. There are a lot of third-party packages for Flutter, and the increasing community discussion regarding the framework is beneficial. With more than 30k <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.stackexchange.com\/questions\/5110\/github-stars-is-a-very-useful-metric-but-for-what\" rel=\"nofollow\">Github stars<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is making its mark on the <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/cross-platform-app-development\/\">cross platform mobile app<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/cross-platform-app-development\/\"> development<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering the attributes, React Native offers the best result combining the qualities of both hybrid and native frameworks. Though it allows the reuse of its code, but restricted to a few components. It comes with more third-party packages that improve the usability of the app by putting some dynamic features. 68k Github stars, including JavaScript and Library React, make React Native a smart choice for mobile app development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The choice of framework is generally made depending on the project type, its requirement, the owner&#x2019;s budget, the deadline, and many more factors. You must leverage the support of your mobile app development team to find the best solution for your app idea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, in the meantime you can check our other blogs for better software knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, read <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphinx-solution.com\/blog\/ionic-vs-react-native-which-framework-better-for-cross-platform-mobile-app-development\/\">React vs Ionic<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a better understanding. &#xA0;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an app idea and want to bring it to life? If cross-platform application attracts you, you&#x2019;ll love this article. 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