Mobile App Development: React Native vs Native

Mobile app development can be complex and if you don’t pick the right app development framework, things can get really tricky.

Today, every enterprise wants to have its app not only on Android but also on iOS. This has cropped up a conversation on why cross-platform app development frameworks are the need of the hour and how development time can be saved if we steer away from native frameworks.

React Native and Native are two such frameworks that facilitate app development but the debate about which one is superior has even outlived time.

Let’s find out which framework is the perfect bet for your high-demand app development:

Development time:

While building an app, development time is everything. You don’t want to delay your project and increase costs simply because the framework you chose didn’t deliver the way you wanted it to. With React Native, the development time and costs are far less than Native since it uses one code on both Android and iOS. This saves you a lot of time and money as you don’t have to write codes individually for both Android and iOS.

This rule doesn’t apply to Native. You have to assign two separate teams to write codes for Android as well as iOS if you want to make the app available on both platforms and also maintain them in case any change is required in the code in the near future.

Development Costs:

As we saw, Native requires you to hire two separate teams that can write a code for Android and iOS. This automatically increases your development and maintenance costs.

With React Native you can stay on track and within budget as it helps you reduce developmental costs by as much as 30–35% compared to Native.

UI/UX Experience:

A great user interface is key to acing a good mobile app. With React Native, despite its reusable codes and abundant ready-made native components, it’s a task to create complex user interfaces such as custom views, navigation patterns, seamless transitions, etc. And even if you do, it is a challenge to maintain the same level of consistency on both Android and iOS.

Thankfully, Native is exempt from this. With Native, you can work on individual screens and customise them to create a more powerful UI/UX experience.

Conclusion:

These three are some of the biggest factors when getting into app development. If you are looking to create a more impactful and engaging UI and give your customers an experience worth remembering, Native could be the thing for you.

But if development time and costs are what matters the most to your enterprise at the moment, you can definitely rely upon React Native.