Flutter VS React Native

The pillar of the Information technology industry is to create cross-platform mobile applications that are compatible with various devices. Responsiveness is the key factor for survival in today’s mobile application development industry. In the mobile application development industry, there are two teams involved having the same business requirement. One creates an Android-based mobile application while the other team focuses on iOS mobile application development. Juxtaposing the two mobile applications developed by two dedicated teams Android-based and iOS-based. The mobile application developers comment that there is always a potential gap between the applications. So, the idea of creating cross-platform mobile applications came into the picture.

An open-source framework invented by Facebook, React Native was released on GitHub in the year 2015 that is the best way to combine iOS and Android platforms through native APIs (Application Platform Interfaces). In addition to this Google developed a DART programming language based Flutter for creating responsive native applications that is a combination of iOS and Android platforms.

Flutter

Google developed Flutter is based on the DART programming language for web development for developing native mobile applications that are cross-platform based and compatible with both iOS as well as Android. It is quite a popular framework because of the ample perks it offers to the mobile application development community.

Development with Flutter- Widgets are the reusable and core components that are available in Flutter which are building blocks for mobile application development. The setback of these widgets is they aren’t cross-platform. For speedy development, Flutter has this amazing feature that makes adjustments while running mobile applications called the Hot Reload.

Performance with Flutter- Flutter adopts a different approach when it comes to compilation. It uses the arm C, C++ compiler which is more inclined to machine learning. In addition to this, it has its own Google invented programming language called DART which proves to be an added advantage. Performance is superb when using Flutter frameworks for mobile application development.

Documentation with Flutter- Insightful and exhaustive documentation is available. Having no programming knowledge can prove to be a hindrance when reading Documentation related to Flutter.

Architecture with Flutter- A newly invented BLoC (Business Logic Component) is one of the few architectures that are very popular for Flutter. a single directional data pattern having Actions, StoreWatchers and Stores is termed as Flux which is embedded in Flutter.

Advantages with Flutter-

• Excellent speed and performance
• Unidirectional data flow
• Testing efforts are reduced to half than normal 
• User compatible templates and designs
• Smaller code snippets which aid faster development of mobile applications

Disadvantages with Flutter-

• Not impressive libraries 
• Involves risk factors when using Flutter framework
• The large size of the mobile application developed proves to be a disadvantage
• A limited number of packages and not a mature ecosystem

React Native

The champion or lead of mobile application development is React Native. This is a JavaScript-based framework built on React library which was released by Facebook in 2015. React Native is an open-source framework and allows the building of iOS and Android mobile applications.

Development with React Native - Instead of using web components or implementing a component-driven approach React Native utilizes the DOM feature which is virtual. The main purpose of virtual DOM is to communicate with the UI elements. There is another salient feature that React Native has called the Expo Integration which allows and permits coding on mobile applications irrespective of wiring it up.

Performance with React Native - Native scripting-based framework React Native is a bridge for the creation of native mobile applications. Seamless performance for native mobile applications is a boon that React Native offers.React Native also can solve repercussions and issues raised as an outcome of JavaScripting.

Documentation with React Native - The official documentation of React Native is user-friendly and detail-oriented helping the mobile application development community with steps for installation of modules or components.

Architecture with React Native - Two main building patterns React and Flux are the backbone for React Native. Unidirectional data flow where data is stored and captured in-store. It utilizes the concept of Context API for state management.

Advantages with React Native -

• Alike Flutter, React Native supports Hot Reload
• Adapting to React Native is quite easy as it is built on JavaScript
• Code reusability is possible
• Mature framework
• Robust and speedy Performance

Disadvantages with React Native -

• React Native is not Native at all
• Limited components
• Obsolete packages and libraries are supported 
• Fragile User Interface (UI)