Hello everyone, today I’m gonna write about all known frameworks which can build mobile app for both Android and iOS. There may be more frameworks, but I’ll share only which I know, and I can recommend you use.
- React Native
- Flutter
- NativeScript
- Xamarin
- Lynx (new)
All of the frameworks create native apps and render native components. I’ve not added any hybrid app development frameworks like capacitor js or ionic.
React Native
React Native is very popular and huge community mobile app development framework which requires you to know about JavaScript language and react JS before working with this framework.
React Native framework is created by Facebook (Meta). And some parts of Facebook mobile apps are also built in react native framework.
Because of its huge community, you can find many components already built by community and you can use them as per your need.
Flutter
Flutter is built by google and Dart programming language is used to work on flutter projects.
It can build both iOS, Android and web app just like React Native, but It can also create desktop apps for Windows OS, MacOS and Linux which makes it better than React Native.
It is created and maintained by Google. So, you don’t need to worry about components.
NativeScript
NativeScript is most flexible mobile app development framework, which supports all frontend frameworks/libraries like React.js, Vue.js and Angular JS. Even you can start your project with vanilla JS. It’s cool.
It has also huge community but smaller than react native and flutter and ecosystem is not active as react native and flutter
Xamarin
Xamarin is created by Mono team but now it is acquired and maintained by Microsoft. If you are good at C# and wanna build mobile apps for iOS and Android, you should choose Xamarin framework.
It has massive enterprise support; it is stable and mature framework as it is maintained by Microsoft.
But there are some cons like app size will be larger, ui development will be slower than flutter and community is smaller than flutter and react native.
Lynx
Lynx JS is created by ByteDance company which is owner of TikTok. Lynx JS also use react js like react native, but it has better performance than react native.
It uses dual thread (JS thread and UI thread) to increase the performance of the apps and to make very smooth UI. Lynx uses a direct communication pipeline between JavaScript logic thread and native rendering engine. It’s native rendering engine is written in Rust programming language.
That’s why it has lower latency, higher FPS and smooth animations than react native.
It’s very new and less mature than other frameworks.
Conclusion
So, all have their pros and cons, but you can decide it easily which you should use to build your apps. If you are good at C#, use Xamarin. If you are good at Dart, use Flutter. But if you are good at JS, and you need to think more while choosing a framework.
You know reactJS, you can choose Lynx, React Native and NativeScript any of them, but you need to check their pros and cons first.
You wanna do fast development react native will be best option. but if you wanna build a fast mobile app with animation, you should try Lynx JS.
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