Flutter vs Native Android / iOS (WHICH DO I LEARN?!) 

@2:22 pros @11:29 equivalent properties @14:20 cons (important*) @26:22 apps flutter is great for @29:43 get rich with flutter

I don't normally watch a 40-minute tech review but this was outstanding.

I'm a native developer, I think that it depends also on where you live. In developping countries, flutter is really becoming a thing despite the shortcoming you mentionned in your video. People tend to chose what's cheaper so you see a growing number of compagnies that are looking for flutter developpers. I'm actually considerating learning it for that reason.

I completely agree and I’m a native Android, IOS developer who recently got into Flutter. This is the best video that explains the deference between Native and Flutter app development.

More than 40 minutes, you really went deep dive in. Good experience and analysis, thanks Mitch.

Honestly thank you for making this! Really got all the information I need!

its nice to see someone who actually knows what their doing(unlike me) make a comparison. Appreciate you taking the time to do something that probably doesn't highlight ur skillset like native development does.

I agree with pretty much all of the points in this video, I am extremely happy that you took a very mature approach of comparing native and flutter, I see a lot of people saying that the flutter is the greatest thing there ever was and completely bashing native, and also I see a lot of native devs talk trash about any cross platform solution, so it's really great that you are taking a more rational approach to all of this

❤️ The only programming video in youtube I shared because here is everything we need to know... developers should know those all things... Thanks A LOT Mitch ❤️...

Great comparison! 👍 I would add that well established companies will hire native devs. Startups may use/hire Flutter devs. So, I'd focus on where I want to be marketable.

Exactly the video I was looking for.

Love it! From now on, anybody tries to make an argument with me about Flutter, I'll just direct them to this video, you said it all! And looking forward to hear your thoughts about iOS native development :D

Thanks for the vid Mitch. Really enjoyed you analysis of Flutter!

File size is not only a problem because of the Playstore's limitation but also because not everyone in the world has high speed internet

There are a lot of points of view that have to be taken into account when talking about security. Security is not only on the side of the server and communications. Without going into too much detail, we could talk about: - How to attack an application by installing it on a rooted device and how to access its private files and information. - How it minify and obfuscates flutter code. - Which options does flutter offer when working and installing custom certificates. In conclusion, the issue of security on mobile devices is not trivial and although I'm sure that this kind of platforms spend a lot of effort on this issue, I do not know how far they have covered all the requirements of complex business applications. In any case, it has been a very enlightening video. Thank you very much for this video Mitch. Congrats!

Thank you Mitch, amazing content as always! I've signed up to your courses which are great and always find that CodingWithMitch has the answers I need when I find myself in a pickle. Keep up the good work!

Flutter is huge money and time saver for big percent of the companies who wants mobile app, for whatever reason. And it also enables huge chunk of developers who never built a mobile app to build one. But like you said, the very advanced apps or apps which relies heavily on native features might still better be build with native. Like anything in IT world, even Flutter is surely NOT a silver bullet. Loved the video though, you made good points and valid arguments.

Man, i love comments from CodingInFlow in videos of CodingWithMitch. Both of you guys are my favourite tutors for Android. I am a self taught native dev and you guys helped me land an internship at a startup...

Thanks Mitch, you've saved a lot of time to many people with your research and high-quality analysis. Very-very useful, appreciate that

Thanks Mitch. This is a great topic and you did a thorough and fair comparison.

thanks for taking out time adding effort to learn flutter and also making a video explaining the pros and cons.

awesome Mitch, thank you for your time man

Good video mitch. I Appreciate the effort you put into making an opinion.

Great video! Eager to see an iOS for Android Developers tutorial lol

This is finally my bus stop on this topic. Thank you, you addressed all my concerns. Very resourceful video!

Amazing explanation... I'm a native android developer and ios Developer and recently got into the flutter but when it comes to the hardware level thing like sensor, image processing, video manipulation, iOT projects no comparison with native so I'd moved back to the native.

i was looking for such guidance, Thanks a lot. :D

After watching your previous video on Flutter, I was curious to know what you say in this video. Your points really makes sense here.

Thanks Mitch, outstanding comparative analysis and presentation!

I was on my by bike when I was listening to this. I do this normally coz it helps me concentrate. At the end of the video I stopped my ride just to like and subscribe. You truly earned it. Amazing video and Great perspectives!!!

Thank you very much . I started learning flutter about two months ago and this has given me enough insight. I believe i will learn Kotlin to be at a better advantage. Thanks again.

Totally agree with you. When I needed to add a barcode scanner to my flutter app, I had to use a plugin written in kotlin which I could not customize.

Great video, thank you very much. 1 more advantage that you didn't talk about with flutter is "flutter for web", which means that in appropriate cases you can host your flutter app on the web. I made a few apps with flutter (coming from Ionic background) and it was really great until it's not. I had an issue with the bounce effect when scrolling stuttering really badly on android, and had to edit flutter's internal dart files to get it fixed. So there might be cases where you'll find issues with flutter itself but at least you can solve them without waiting for flutter team to get to your issue.

This really helped me out. Thanks for your time :)

I am a newbie in android dev. I built a flutter text recognition software of size 33 MB. And i am happy for what it is:)

Really thought out video. I was learning native android development and was really loving it, but I had to learn and start working extensively with Flutter as per my company's tech choice. I love working with Flutter, but I know I'll be going back to native development as soon as I can.

Great video, Thank you for detailed case study :D

cheers buddy, it did answer plenty of my questions. Keep up the good work .

Here is some kind of engagement. And thanks for the research.

The best and most honest video discussing the cons of flutter

Nice video. Since you said it, I am eager to see another video like this on iOS development

Good video. I figured out really a lot of things about Flutter.

Great video! Thank you. I would love to see iOS "version" of this. Am Android Developer and am considering learning iOS Development also, I also got the idea to learn iOS after learning Flutter. I started using Flutter when it launched but I recently got the Mac so I can do iOS properly. Long time awaited but am there :D

This is a very nice video, that actually describes the cons in depth and not just for the purpose of rant to gain attention. Thank You, you showed me the right path.

Great Content As Usual Love u mitch

Thanks for a more detailed view! About the APK size, you do no specify if the apk is in the release or debug mode. On debug mode, the apk includes the webserver to communicate with the Dart VM, a Dart VM itself, and a lot of things. On release mode, Dart is compiled AOT so the size is much smaller. I've uploaded a Flutter app today to play store, and the version manager says that the download size will be "between 7,38 and 7,90 MB".

Thanks Mitch , you always motivate me, hope I will meet you some day

Thanks for such amazing analysis Mitch

I just saw the other video looked in the channel and saw this at least you took the criticism well I’m subbing.

Thank you for sharing Mitch.

Amazing analysis. Was looking for something exactly like this. Thank you bro

I'm CS final year student and this topic was confusing for me and almost anyone is trying to figure how to make it into the mobile development, this video (specially the final thoughts part) is really helpful and informative it's not something to pick and never change it back. Also considering the local community/market circumstances is important I think I will check the video again later, Thanks Mitch

Well now, that's a much less biased video. You deserve my like this time !

Now I am subscribing you for your efforts!

Great video, very detailed and professionally explained

Best video over to clearing doubt about Flutter vs Native android Development

Thanks for all the information and covering in depth. I just wanted to ask you something. What about react native compared to flutter? React native has been around for quite some time now? Does it have plug-ins and services built which can be used? What are some type of apps which are not ideal to be built using react native? Please reply. Thanks and Regards :)

You were spot on with the plugin issue. One of the main reasons i'm on the fence with using Flutter for an upcoming project.

Thanks for your input, that was really useful

The maximum apk size on google play is actually 50mb and will be updated to 100mb, but otherwise, very nice comparison. I feel however that it depends on the market, flutter works best for start-ups where resources e.g budgets are constrained and native is for usually established companies. Always good to see a video from you.

Thank you man for the information it really help me

@CodingWithMitch thanks for the great content.Instead of Native i think Flutter may give some competition to other cross platform frameworks like Reactive Native whats your thought on this and as you said can consider flutter for information display apps with dashboard and all.

Ty man.. Really appreciated this video

Great explanation Mitch 💯👍

Thanx for ur feedback on this 👍 appreciate it very much

27:00 you mentioned an interesting point, I'm an android developer and I'm thinking of building a restaurant management app, it's gonna be mostly managing/displaying data but I'm planning to add some services such as GPS tracking when orders placed and maybe other services I can think of in the future but I doubt there will be camera service "thankfully lol" maybe gallery intent. So what do you think of GPS service in flutter? Great video BTW I'll continue watching

Mitch. About everything that has being said, I have a question. In your opinion, is Flutter safe enough to build financial applications? Best regards here from São Paulo - Brazil

Hey, thanks for your video, it really gave very good info that i needed to know before i dive in flutter.

This was very informative, so thank you very much.

Most of the things said about what Flutter is great for is little misleading We have an application that used Bluetooth(BLE, beacons), camera scanning(Document, QR Code), and GPS location. All of the above "sensors" were written native as a library for Android & iOS and they perform fantastically. For more hardcore stuff like voice calls or AI over camera analysis, I would agree due to some real hardware usage, but flutter coverage far greater than "a gym guy wants an app". Even the new UI building tools for ios and android like Compose, for example, are very close to what Flutter stands for, lets not forget it's a project from Google a company leading in mobile development. I've heard the same suspicious behaviour for Kotlin when firstly come out but now it's a main programming language for most of the app developers out there (same boat for swift).

Thank you Mitch for the video. About the flutter app size being 500 MB, is this after removing debug info with split-debug-info?

Hey Mitch, do you recommend to build an app, similar to TaskRabbit , with flutter?

Really appreciate the efforts and the time you put into this

Love the video and the analysis. I have a question, so this app I want to build involves functions like Uploading videos and Pictures by users (like on Instagram) and have Home Feed, can you build it with Flutter? Really appreciate if anyone answers this question!

This is a great video! I agree that flutter apps lag on iOS, i have experienced that. Also, i haven't been able to load images from AWS S3 onto my flutter app, and for some reason it just crashes the app when trying to fetch images! It's frustrating!

I have been developing in React Native. When you talk about the pros and cons of Flutter, it seems to draw parallels with React Native. Without a community both platforms are doomed. React is cool though because it can also be used for the web. I don't know if Flutter is or not. Either way, both platforms depend on the community. Both iOS and Android native platforms are constantly changing so the community must keep up. If you get something working correctly on Android, you may test it on iOS and discover strange behavior. With that said, they can both save time which = $$$$. Great analysis Mitch. Thanks

Hi mitch, cool video, it will be cool to have an analysis with React Native also, just to have a bigger picture of this hibrid things

Thanks for the in depth comparison video

Bravo sir you cleared my mind I was contemplating whether to do native or cross platform development and this is the best well explained video on RU-vid ever existent ! Thank you ! 👏

I have developed an Android and a Flutter app in both stores. I agree with most things you’ve said. I think “The Team Lead” guy’s views on server side being more the future than Flutter; I think he is again focusing on the kind of app that doesn’t require hardware plugins/native. Maybe that will happen. Maybe not.

Thanx man this was very helpful 😊

great comparison and especially helpful for beginners to know before diving in the app. thank you

Thank you RU-vid for recommending this video.

I’ve been told that vibration isn’t for big projects, so I’ve been told to choose Android or iOS. Do you think Flutter’s shortcomings will be corrected in the future?

Great info, Mitch

@:18:28 is this flutter APK a debug or relase one? because the debug will be extremely large, as you described... the release one will be optimized

Thanks Buddy, I am native Android developer and i was really considering learning flutter, but I wasn't so sure about it after some research, but after watching this video, things are way clear for me now. I would stick with native for now and probably learn something else, maybe swift...

but every open source project depends upon community right??? Python would be a good example.

This was very helpful, thank you

Good explanations, specially the last one. I work with both android and iOS native. I guest I will stick to it. Thanks

Thank you ❤️ you did all for us... Love you ❤️

'ore no hontou no papa', just trying to make out the last few chars on the tee-shirt. Great review, thank you.

Thanks Mitch! great video What did you think about flitter webview?

Awesome insights here 👏🏽

Thank you for your explanation, you helped me a lot!

I don't agree completely on some points: 1.you can combine native code into flutter apps, 2. You have flutter monitoring tools to check memory. What I agree is that flutter depends on community for plugins. I would recommend native Android only if you need better milliseconds performance and if you have money.

Excellent deep dive and really helpful!

As per my knowledge it's 4mb to 5mb larger than the native apps for the dart lib included. You are comparing debug apk so that it's increases. Except this all the things you said is correct..

Great informational video 👍🏻. I think in the future the flutter developers might colaborate with the plug-in developers & ship the flutter sdk with plug-ins. I am not 100% sure but there are chances.

thanks, for this video but there is something you didn't mention, what is most requested in freelance native or flutter?