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181 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 25 May \ parent \ on: If you were to create an SN native app would you use React Native or Flutter? AskSN
Both React Native and Flutter produce native applications:
- https://reactnative.dev/docs/intro-react-native-components#native-components
- https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#run-android
React Native apps ship with a JS engine that runs the logic, but the widgets are actually native (OS-supplied).
Flutter compiles the Dart code to native ARM binaries directly (via LLVM, skipping Kotlin and Obj-C) and the views are constructed from custom platform-specific components.
And just because Flutter has custom components doesn't mean it's not "native". There are, for example, multiple frameworks for Windows (MFC, WPF, UWP, Qt, Swing, and many more) - they are just different renderers, but only Windows API/MFC/WinForms could be considered "truly native" (as in, OS-supplied). Noone writes apps using that anymore (because DirectX exists) but we call all those .exe's "native" apps anyway.