Flutter is a technology that is currently causing a stir in mobile development. It has become more often chosen for creating new applications, and some developers rewrite even old applications in Flutter, in fact, for no apparent reason.

I spent several months with Flutter on a production project, and I want to share my experience comparing it to React-Native, with which I have quite a lot of experience.

I would like to elaborate on what you need to consider if you are moving to a cross-platform native approach and want to understand which is best for you - Flutter or React-Native.

Typically you have 3 mobile app options: a fully native Kotlin / Swift app, a fully web app (PWA or WebView container), and something in between. We call this variant Cross Platform Native because they are not web apps, but Native Apps, which nevertheless take a cross-platform approach.

Both technologies provide similar capabilities, but using Flutter is a bit risky now due to its immaturity, lack of libraries and not very large community yet.

Criteria for evaluation

I will not delve into the essence of the technologies, but will evaluate them from the point of view of their application in projects and their capabilities in general. I looked at the following aspects:

• Build and Deploy.
• Availability of libraries and widgets.
• Tools and testing.
• Performance.
• Developers experience.
• Network capabilities.
• Media capabilities.
• Safety.

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