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I'd love to know this as well, as we're currently evaluating making the leap between RN and Xamarin for our startup. (ideal world, I favor just using the nativ

by atonse 9y ago

I'd love to know this as well, as we're currently evaluating making the leap between RN and Xamarin for our startup. (ideal world, I favor just using the native stacks for iOS and Android but we are short staffed)

Amokrane 9y ago
Consider Flutter (https://flutter.io/ https://flutter.io/) as well. The advantage over RN in terms of performances is interesting.
- jankins 9y ago
  Beware though: "Note: Flutter is an alpha, open-source project." It's missing some polish (notably, check accessibility) https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ "Make your app accessible. (This is a work-in-progress.)" I haven't dug into how much is done though. It's alpha after all, but I'd be wary of choosing it for a production project at the moment.
- BoorishBears 9y ago
  I remember putting the Flutter demo with a simple counter on a no-name Android device and having the Flutter app completely chug. The hardware had a really wimpy SoC, but a native app would never chug for something as simple as pressing a button to change a number. It made suspect that while in phones with strong GPUs the acceleration makes things buttery smooth, it doesn't graciously scale to poor GPUs (but someone please do correct me if it might have been something else) It got me worried about shipping an app and finding out it doesn't run on low end hardware even though it doesn't do anything that would be demanding on native
  - thebosz 9y ago
    Do you happen to remember what device that was? On my crappiest Android device (Moto E LTE 2015), the Flutter Gallery app runs fairly smooth.
    - BoorishBears 9y ago
      It's not a "normal" device that I could really name, but it's internals are shared with several brands of no name Android tablets you'd find at Walmart, for example
passivepinetree 9y ago
I've never used React Native, but I've had negative experiences with Xamarin at my current company. It's buggy as heck and the development experience isn't great. Most teams are committing to native development after trying Xamarin.
GoldenMonkey 9y ago
I found Xamarin development to be about 30% faster on average, than native. But, even with Xamarin Forms, one often needs to customize the UI and code to target android or iOS specific features. And that is when it's a pita, b/c now you need to know native and the Xamarin platform. And it's all on you to figure out.. b/c the community and resources available are much smaller than the native community. Even with the 30% development savings, I prefer native. It's just less hassle and more enjoyable.

by atonse 9y ago

Amokrane 9y ago

Consider Flutter (https://flutter.io/ https://flutter.io/) as well. The advantage over RN in terms of performances is interesting.

jankins 9y ago
Beware though: "Note: Flutter is an alpha, open-source project." It's missing some polish (notably, check accessibility) https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ "Make your app accessible. (This is a work-in-progress.)" I haven't dug into how much is done though. It's alpha after all, but I'd be wary of choosing it for a production project at the moment.
BoorishBears 9y ago
I remember putting the Flutter demo with a simple counter on a no-name Android device and having the Flutter app completely chug. The hardware had a really wimpy SoC, but a native app would never chug for something as simple as pressing a button to change a number. It made suspect that while in phones with strong GPUs the acceleration makes things buttery smooth, it doesn't graciously scale to poor GPUs (but someone please do correct me if it might have been something else) It got me worried about shipping an app and finding out it doesn't run on low end hardware even though it doesn't do anything that would be demanding on native
- thebosz 9y ago
  Do you happen to remember what device that was? On my crappiest Android device (Moto E LTE 2015), the Flutter Gallery app runs fairly smooth.
  - BoorishBears 9y ago
    It's not a "normal" device that I could really name, but it's internals are shared with several brands of no name Android tablets you'd find at Walmart, for example

passivepinetree 9y ago

I've never used React Native, but I've had negative experiences with Xamarin at my current company. It's buggy as heck and the development experience isn't great. Most teams are committing to native development after trying Xamarin.

GoldenMonkey 9y ago

I found Xamarin development to be about 30% faster on average, than native. But, even with Xamarin Forms, one often needs to customize the UI and code to target android or iOS specific features. And that is when it's a pita, b/c now you need to know native and the Xamarin platform. And it's all on you to figure out.. b/c the community and resources available are much smaller than the native community. Even with the 30% development savings, I prefer native. It's just less hassle and more enjoyable.