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Native vs cross-platform: choosing your mobile stack

One of the first decisions in any mobile project is whether to go fully native (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android) or cross-platform (React Native or Flutter from a single codebase).

Native delivers the absolute best performance and access to the latest platform features, at the cost of maintaining two codebases. Cross-platform lets you ship to both stores from one codebase, dramatically cutting time and budget, with performance now good enough for the vast majority of apps.

Our rule of thumb: choose cross-platform unless you are building something graphics-intensive or deeply tied to platform hardware. We will help you make the right call for your goals.