The need for cross platform software continues to grow as the technological age continues to surge forward. It is shown that 218 billion people downloaded applications last year. This is an enormous number when you consider how many dollars are spend on some of those apps.
Getting a piece of that pie requires you to get your application loaded up onto droid and iOS platforms. Many are available to choose from. Some good. Some bad. In the end you will find out what everyone else in the industry already knows.
There are two programs on the forefront of this technology. React Native and Flutter. They use different approaches to their methods, and they use different programming languages.
Read below and make your own choice, but React Native is better overall as you will see. There are numerous other articles that will support this theory so feel free to check around.
- Age-The age of the company shows experience and increased learning due to experience. React Native was created in 2015, while Flutter came in a few years later in 2017. React has been around longer than Flutter and has been making cross platform use available to consumers for far longer.
- Language-This is the big one for most people. React uses JavaScript while Flutter uses Dart. It has been shown, year after year that JavaScript is the leading way that programs and software applications are written. In fact, around 65% of them were written with this well known computer language. JavaScript is what the majority of the websites are written with. On the other hand, Dart is fairly new and not near as common on any applications or sites.
- Vendor-For some this will not matter that much, but it does have influence on how the vendor is. React Native is from Facebook and Flutter is from Google. Obviously, both companies are adept at computer programming, and the languages that go along with it, but they are different companies with different viewpoints.
Now that the basics are out of the way we are going to compare the two directly using information from a study conducted by a colleague of Nix United. This report contains a ton of information, so it is suggested that you go check it out. Finish this article first, though. It summarizes everything discovered in the study in a couple of readable pages.
Now we can move on to the study. It will show you the basic information that was discovered. Let us see who has the best ratings, between RN vs Flutter, by using a study of the languages that they each use.. Remember that JavaScript is the language that React Native uses, and Dart is the Flutter language.
Okay, here we go!
- When it comes to overall performance (meaning speed and memory use) on a desktop JavaScript beat Dart in seven out of ten of the tests.
- When it comes to the performance on a mobile platform, once again JavaScript beat out Dart, but this time it was in all ten categories.
- When it came to cross platform mobile use, meaning iOS and Droid, the JavaScript language outperformed the Dart language in every category.
If you have been following what has been shared above, you already know that React Native is the way to go. It offers you cross-platform programming that is faster and uses less memory.
Native is at the top of their game, and since most web sites to this date have been written in Java it is simple common sense that you would want to stick with what works. Like the saying goes “Why try and fix something that is not broken.”
