Choosing app development type – cross-platform or native significantly influences the ultimate performance of an app. Both approaches differ in various ways, based on the various factors.
Advantages of cross-platform over native:
Advantages of Native over Cross-platform:
Difference between cross-platform and native apps:
Criteria | Native | Cross-Platform |
Architecture | Different apps for different platform | One app for multiple platforms |
Performance | Fully native and higher | Native-like and performance issues |
Development Time | Requires time as need to write different code | Significantly reduced development time |
Cost | Not cost-effective | Lower costs |
Target audience | Limited to a specific platform | Reach a large number of users |
User experience | Superior | Less reliable as unified UX for all platforms |
Code reusability | Almost none | 60% reuse |
Hardware accessibility | Complete hardware support | Limited |
Who Wins?
Cross-platform is a preferable choice for business apps, SPAs, and low functionality app while native apps are used for graphically-enhanced apps, gaming, and enterprise applications with broad functions.
Native vs. cross-platform – this choice is subjective as it depends on factors like time, speed, cost, performance, and requirements.
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