Firestarter:
Don't sure which framework is right for you? In this article, we investigate the current state of things for the more popular iOS and Android cross-platform frameworks

Hope this article will help you make the right decision as per your business requirements.

https://steelkiwi.com/blog/flutter-vs-react-native-vs-xamarin-for-cross-platform-development/

chalantmike:


I prefer staying away from cross apps, they're unpredictable and harder to manage than pure os.

chalantmike:


I prefer staying away from cross-platform apps, they're unpredictable and harder to manage than pure os.

trytillmake:


Do state yr reasons, using ionic and angular has been sweet so far.

Olalekank:
I just want to point out some things here. As a flutter advocate, I might be a little bias with my arguement.

As for me, if you're to choose between a cross platform tool then flutter is your best bet. Asides the fact that flutter can and has been used in creating high quality apps targeted towards so many users, you can also build these apps in record time - for iOS and android.

Some might argue that there are some native functionalities that you cannot embed. However it's worthy to note that you can write native platform code in your flutter app, so if there's a functionality you can't get to implement in flutter, you can box in your java or swift code right there in your flutter app!

Another set of people say the apk size after build is quite high but I can assure that the apk sizes since its inception has been reducing considerably. An app I and my partner has been working on has over 36 pages and over 85 .dart files has about 30.5mb for apk size. I suppose is higher than that of RN and Xamarin but still not close to the native apps itself but with the flutter team continuously working on flutter, we should see even more greater reductions as we've seen as newer SDK versions are released.

Mehn, have you seen flutter animations?! You need to check that out, I'd probably spend a whole month immersing myself in it. You can create high quality animations in little time, real little time.

Here's where flutter kills java for native code, just like in web development, you can debug your android apps live, use a feature called hot reload and see your changes in LESS than 1 second. You just see yourself coding and coding and coding without knowing how many hours has gone. Kudos to google for that. Does it work that way in xamarin or RN or native java? Kindly help clarify.

Finally, there's an article which I'm too lazy to look for right now of how a CEO had to switch from ionic to flutter due to performance issues, the title of the medium article is "How flutter saved our startup". Hamilton music also used flutter to build an app (I'm not too sure what the app is about but you sure can expect a lot of users are using the app). Then google also uses it in its google admob. It has a lot of support already compared to "other cross platform" tools.

Flutter is not an hybrid app, head on to flutter.io to get started today, also refer to my first line opener once again.

cc chalantmike , crunchyDope, Firestarter

chalantmike:


I would give it a try coming from google, should be worth it, I think it works the same way other way other hybrid ide works, cause I can see syntax of html, javascript / typescript all over the place, I pray its not in kotlin.

Maybe flutter can account for the loopholes in other hybrid technologies, coming from google we expect thehbest. So imma try it for a week if its as good as yhu say, i would do the switch, to flutter.

One problem I can anticipate is flutter is relatively new , so most of its debug errors might not have a solution out there or someone is just yet to post it.

Lets hope for the best.

Olalekank:
I just want to point out some things here. As a flutter advocate, I might be a little bias with my arguement.

I want to contact you, please share your email or phone number.

As for me, if you're to choose between a cross platform tool then flutter is your best bet. Asides the fact that flutter can and has been used in creating high quality apps targeted towards so many users, you can also build these apps in record time - for iOS and android.

Some might argue that there are some native functionalities that you cannot embed. However it's worthy to note that you can write native platform code in your flutter app, so if there's a functionality you can't get to implement in flutter, you can box in your java or swift code right there in your flutter app!

Another set of people say the apk size after build is quite high but I can assure that the apk sizes since its inception has been reducing considerably. An app I and my partner has been working on has over 36 pages and over 85 .dart files has about 30.5mb for apk size. I suppose is higher than that of RN and Xamarin but still not close to the native apps itself but with the flutter team continuously working on flutter, we should see even more greater reductions as we've seen as newer SDK versions are released.

Mehn, have you seen flutter animations?! You need to check that out, I'd probably spend a whole month immersing myself in it. You can create high quality animations in little time, real little time.

Here's where flutter kills java for native code, just like in web development, you can debug your android apps live, use a feature called hot reload and see your changes in LESS than 1 second. You just see yourself coding and coding and coding without knowing how many hours has gone. Kudos to google for that. Does it work that way in xamarin or RN or native java? Kindly help clarify.

Finally, there's an article which I'm too lazy to look for right now of how a CEO had to switch from ionic to flutter due to performance issues, the title of the medium article is "How flutter saved our startup". Hamilton music also used flutter to build an app (I'm not too sure what the app is about but you sure can expect a lot of users are using the app). Then google also uses it in its google admob. It has a lot of support already compared to "other cross platform" tools.

Flutter is not an hybrid app, head on to flutter.io to get started today, also refer to my first line opener once again.

cc chalantmike , crunchyDope, Firestarter

chalantmike:


Functionality is limited compared to pure os, combining multiple technologies to immitate mobile experience, is error prone, most of these errrors yhu cant catch at debugging time,cause each individual os is different from the other. In case of android each OS version is built either on the failure of the past os, or as an improvement on the past OS version, hybrid apps can not account for those chances or improvement since most hybrid technologies are based on web technologies, if a user upgrades his / her OS version, your hybrid app might not respond well.

As a developer you'd sleep well at night, building pure OS apps.

solomon201:
Flutter is awesome for building cross platform apps. The development experience is second to non I have seen, performance is also very good. First tried it in January and had never looked back.

daverebranded:
I have done Xamarin , as a c# guy I think it's great for production level apps, please flutter advocates have you guys actually tested flutter with real world production ready applications?

micodon:


obviously, you dont know the difference between “cross-platform” and “hybrid”

chalantmike:


In most case both terms are interchangeable, try not piss me off. Yhu could always state yhur case.

micodon:


nope. they are never interchangeable. if you wanna get pissed off for receiving corrections, be my guest

bakayokoko:
LHIMEET UNQUOTE THAT NUMBER NA

Lhimeet:

Okay.. Will do

chalantmike:


Mr man , both terms are interchangeable, difference between both terms is just hybrid is mostly specific to mobile and cross platform covers a wider range of technologies than hybrid , cross platform most likely refers to software, if I say a software is cross platform, ttha is can work on mùltiply platforms, I can as well say it a hybrid software, its just semantics.

Technologies that can be used to build hybrid apps is limited and mostly web based cause it is the one technology all platforms atleast most have in common.

A language like python covers more platforms than any other language, I think.
The word platform refers to the operating system itself. Hybrids are built to imitate.

micodon:


thank you for showing your lack of basic knowledge to the world. believe what you want to believe

micodon:


thank you for showing your lack of basic knowledge to the world. believe what you want to believe

chalantmike:


I really don't have time for this broz,I have worked on both hybrid n cross platform. I really don't have time for all this. Google is yhur friend, go work and come back instead of that high n mighty air yhur trying to put up.

Yhu can always state yhur case, point yhur point forward.

Dthinkerman:
Bro, @miicodon is right. Hybrid and cross-platform are not interchangeable or synonymous. In fact, they are two different concepts, not sitting on the same face of the technological world.

Cross-platform means it has the ability to work across different OS platforms, like Android and ios, in the case of mobile, or Windows, Linux and Mac, in the case of Web.

However, on the other hand, when you say hybrid, it means it doesn't work with full functionality. The opposite of hybrid is native. When a mobile app is a native app, it means it has the capacity and is built with the functionality to work with the hardware components of a mobile device, like WiFi, camera, fingerprint, etc. A hybrid app cannot work or isn't built with the capability to work with most hardware components of a device.


They're Interchangeable, depends on the context of the speaker, when you say cross platform, you are most like referring to the os. when you say hybrid, you are referring to its behaviour.
When I say cross platform I expect you to know, it is mutable to multiple OS "operating system".

In english the word mutable and hybrid are similar but very different things, mutable means can change. Hybrid would probably be more focus on properties, behaviour etc.

If I say an hybrid app, that would mean, an app that can behave like a native app. When I say cross platform apps, I am referring to its os not it build or behaviour.

Olalekank:
I just want to point out some things here. As a flutter advocate, I might be a little bias with my arguement.