React Native vs Flutter 

I used React Native and Flutter in the last year. with React Native i spent 50% of the time resolving a lot of issues with the build, run hot reload etc. making my work very hard. Flutter is a life saver. No issue (few issues) with build or run or live reload, dart is very easy to learn, Android studio's works perfect. Write your own package or native code is easy, fast and works!!! Now i can work better and without stress

very honest review. i am developing app with flutter. Guys trust me if native performs 100% then flutter performs 95% and react native 75%. flutter is awrsome

I'd rather flutter instead of anything, flutter is amazing!

I have used all 4 to build apps, and I personally prefer Flutter. The closer you get to native the better, and dart is really easy to learn and use. It still has a way to go to before it's as fleshed out as some of the other options (looking at you maps), but otherwise I have been able to create some really complex apps with it. Also if you are coming from RN background, then you will be happy to know that you can use Redux with it. I will however say that RN is a better choice if you will be using "standard" widgets instead of custom designed ones when time is of importance. Since RN adaptively displays the widgets for each platform. Speeding up your development time and making your app appear native for both iOS and Android users respectively, without any extra effort from your end.

I am in LOVE with flutter

I am now more confused. In a good way.

I am a RN dev. After watching this video, i wanna try out flutter.

I started to use Flutter and Dart and I love it. I come from Adobe Flex and AIR and it is the closest thing I could get and I think with no doubt that Flutter is the future because Dart is the closest to perfection language. The problem with Ionic is the slow learning curve for beginners

Cool. I didn't know Flutter compiles to machine code. That's pretty valuable.

Interestingly Flutter still doesn't play (embed) RU-vid video natively (other videos are supported) and there is no inline webview support for a workaround. We cannot embed a native UI plugin into Flutter app. You can only communicate via channel messages with native API e.g. Read sensor values etc. The RU-vid and map support Flutter jira issues are open since 2015. Also Polymer has been heavily promoted by Google for 2 years in Google I/O but hasn't gained traction because Google expected all major browsers to support their proposed web component spec e.g. HTML import and that didn't happen. Polymer 3.0 has now changed the code to use standard ES6 APIs e.g. lit-html with string literal template. Flutter has better prospects than Polymer because the tech is self contained i.e. not dependent on device support and Flutter is also the official UI for Google Fuchsia OS that may replace Android. On the flip side, the widgets are rendered by the Flutter rendering engine and don't use native iOS widgets. If Apple releases new iOS components, then devs have to wait for Flutter to make them available. Flutter may face competition from PWA because PWA is fast gaining traction from all major browsers and so is web assembly. If wasm provides access to native mobile hardware and WebGL, then the web app would feel like a "native" app.

personally I'm using angular / ionic v4 (beta) since here in swiss it's so popular and I find awesome to build PWA and cross platform apps with these technologies. I'd like also have a better approach to Native since im pretty new to this. thanks great video

Great video, exactly what I was trying to find out. I got laid off a few months ago due to major cuts. I didn't see where the market was going nor could I implement these technologies where I worked so now I'm having a hard time finding a job due to my lack of React knowledge and mastery of Javascript. Now I'm debating on going Native coding or learning Flutter and hope that by the time I master it, the market will have switched to it giving me an advantage. Obviously React won't go away anytime soon but I'm just trying to figure out what to learn and where to focus my attention. Thanks.

These are the kind of videos why I love this channel. So resourceful.

I am an android developer and use java to develop app.I was planning to learn react native bcz i know JavaScript but now, i think flutter is the way to go bcz Google developed flutter and they give great support for their products

Fantastic video on looking at what is the state of the art. It sounds like Ionic is one of the smarter options now that it has recently become framework agnostic (as opposed to being tied to Angular)

Frameworks that use JavaScript will obviously be easy to jump into for JavaScript developers, but it's also fair to say that Dart is a very quick learn for anyone who is used to pretty much any major language besides JavaScript. If you know Java, Kotlin, Swift, C#, Python, C++ etc., then learning Dart will essentially be a matter of asking, "Okay, what's the syntax for this concept I already understand?" And typically the syntax is something we've already used anyway. It would take a non-JS developer longer to get going with JavaScript than Dart because JavaScript has some core functionality that's different from most other OOP languages. When Google built Dart, they did so with the intention of solving the biggest gotchas in JS development. Compared to JavaScript, with Dart, "this" behaves like you expect. Inheritance behaves like you expect - no prototype chains, etc. Variable scoping behaves like you expect. There is no confusion over "null" vs. "undefined" (there is just null) or strict equality. The only concept I think people familiar with other modern languages will have to read a little about might be how Dart deals with libraries, since it's slightly different than packages or namespaces in other languages. But it's easy once you've seen it.

Finally Once in for all. love you max.

I've been using Cordova / PhoneGap for three years or so, give or take a bit. It has been my experience that if you do a lot of internet-access, the performance-penalty for a "wrapped" app pretty much disappears. The internet-access itself becomes the bottleneck -- no matter how fast your network connection is, it's *always* going to be *far* slower than your CPU, so having a native UI vs. a wrapped UI is pointless. You'll never get to take advantage of the native app's capabilities because it's always being slowed down by your internet access. For things like games, however, where you absolutely *need* to have the fastest screen refresh you can possibly get, nothing beats a native app. And one note regarding Progressive Web Apps -- you forgot to mention the *cost* involved with putting your apps on an App Store. For Apple, anyway, you have to pay an annual fee to be a "developer" and get your apps on the App Store. If you create Progressive Web Apps, not only is your app more easily found via a standard Google search, but you save money by not having to buy a developer license from Apple. (So far, becoming a Google Developer and putting apps on the Google Play Store is free, but they could easily start charging a fee for it in the future.) This video was an excellent comparison of the available technologies. It has cemented my decision to stay with Cordova / PhoneGap for now... I'll revisit Flutter in the future, however, if I decide I need a faster UI for my apps.

Great comparison as always! I hope based on the 'power' of Ionic, there is a course in the future when capacitor and web-components are officially supported.. sticking to Angular makes me go away from Ionic but I still like its convenience (maybe not their performance)

Max, I don't know how you keep cranking out so much excellent learning material. It's like you come from a world with 30 hour days, 8 day weeks, and you don't need sleep. Your RU-vid channel and Udemy courses have literally changed my life for the better. Thank you!

Extremely well done and informative video

I like the way Flutter lets me visualise the widgets. I get confused with React n Co like Vue with their constant import this n that.

looking at this as may 2020, very good explication

Quite an informative video! If you ever find the time make a course or tutorial about Ionic 4 with vue or vue nativescript ( or both! :D ), it would be great!! Definitely would look into them.

If you use React Native and your developer experience feels great (compared to flutter), then it means either you are a stellar developer that doesn't need that much debugging assistance, or you haven't tried flutter.

Nobody seems to know that Embarcadero Delphi and C++ Builder both permit multi-platform apps (Android, IOS, Windows, Linux) to be developed based on their FireMonkey framework. This outfit is a successor to Borland, and has been developing Delphi for 40+ years. It is a mature and stable product and permits rapid application development and deployment. Unfortunately, the product is expensive (although they have a community edition) and difficult to learn for beginners (if they don't discover the Embarcadero Bootcamps), it often being hard to follow their documentation (or to know which of it is current - they never throw anything away, it seems). Still it might be worthwhile considering.

React Navite apps launch a local web server that plays the javascript code. Access to api is using a service. Native Script uses a Java Virtual machine that also plays the compiled code for android or ios, the access to api is made directly by the virtual machine. Flutter runs an internal engine that executes c/c++ libraries directly to ARM. Access to api is directly done by the engine. So what we need to answer is which is faster? A web server (react), a java virtual machine (native script), or a c/c++ engine (flutter)....?

Flutter has iOS widgets called Cupertino widgets. It's not explicitly Material. Plus you can build all custom widgets according to your super custom design.

Amazing video. For the first time I listened on regular speed (not fast) and played it twice. Great information to digest here.

One of the Best Material I came across that can help you distinguish the true lines in technologies before you actually jump-dive into the learning one. If you're just smart enough to understand why Ionic is better, You are a Sales Inclined Entrepreneur Like me. Good Job with the video. I Actually purchased your Ionic course on Udemy. It's worth it.

You Forgot Xamarin.Forms , that for me is one of the best options. for the community, tooling, IDE and performance.

Coming from an iOS background of over 7 years, I tried ReactNative with a Fortune 500 company.. I hated it! Its Javascript 🤮 where anything goes... Left the Job! Got on another project with Flutter... I'm so much loving it! it feels like home cos of Dart, which is Object Oriented and very easy for Native Developers to pick up. My opinion is, if you are coming from a Native land, Choose Flutter... If you are coming from Web, choose Flutter too.. why? because with Flutter your code is compiled which makes it fast.. ReactNative uses a Bridge, or should I say a "Broken Bridge"... Also with Flutter, you get LOTS of widgets out of the box!. My biggest disappointment with ReactNative was the amount of dependence on third-party libraries to do BASIC stuff like.. you guessed it - Navigation! OMG. What was Facebook thinking when they released it? Also, try updating a ReactNative project to the a new version of ReactNative library... Better not do that on a Friday evening 🚨 Panic Mode 🚨. Flutter will replace ReactNative soon 😛

I was waiting this comoarisson for a long time, thanks man.

What happens if you include xamarin, in the above video, where does it fall in the graphs?

I came looking for a simple React Native vs Flutter video and found something a lot better. Thanks

Do you know TotalCross? You can use Java to write and the app is compiled in C. It's also use Material Design specs. Can you do a comparion including this one in the future?

Awesome comparison . Flutter looks interesting to me . I was concerned regarding push on material design . IOS users might want consistent look and feel rather than Material design. I like React approach on letting each OS handle its style .

Пробовала и то, и то. И несмотря на то, что я пришла в мобайл из веб-разработки и реакт мне как родной - как оказалось, флаттер многократно проще, удобней, быстрее. Я все равно люблю реакт, у него есть свои плюсы, огромное число готовых библиотек и ответов на самые заковыристые вопросы, у него потрясающие возможности, но если мне нужно написать что-то простое и быстро, то я выберу флаттер.

Great comparison, Max! Thank you for this video and for your amazing React material. I have both React and React Native courses on Udemy. Thank you so much for your help to improve my skills!!

The cool pronunciation like music to my ears ) I can face one so seldom. In addition, all stuff is correct and I totally agree with it.

In short, Which one of them should I learn?

Wondelful summary of where are mobile technologies today! Thank you.

Can you express your opinion in regards to Vue Native? Is it something as powerful as React Native?

flutter + firestore = streamable database.snapshots with offline persistence out of the box with a few lines of code, mind blowing. I'm amazed. One code for iOS and Android

You are doing very good job Max thank you for your support

React native will be easy to learn for those who know ReactJS. In the same way Is Flutter related to Angular?

We want to build a Native Mobile App [0:40] Available Options [1:29] A Closer Look [4:25] Comparison 1 [10:39] Comparison 2 [15:59] Comparison 3 [23:19] Progressive Web Apps? [28:06] PWAs vs Hybrid App vs "Real Native" Apps [30:13]

man for me this is the perfect time to post this video thanks a lot you are doing a good job Respect !

The most useful overview I have seen

Max if you provide an honest comment : how big is the learning curve to undersrand dart and flutter languages?

Thank you again! I have a question. What kind of tech stacks do you enjoy the most for your project? I found out you made academind with nuxt.js so obviously you don't hate vue.js right?

If you want to program directly in c++ to make native apps? what should I use? Flutter uses dart then compiles in c++, so if I want to compile directly in c++? thanks

Great video! What about Nativescript Angular? Written in TypeScript, they work closely with the Angular team

Sir, what is xamarin app And it is different from other mobile apps like:- react native, futtur, nativescripe and etc.. Please tell about in this topic. Please

Make an updated video please 🥺

i used all of these frameworks to find which is better for me. Flutter is incredible, because the clients always wants weird things and with flutter a can please them easly :)

Huh, so Ionic is the same idea as Electron. I searched your channel and I can't find anything on Electron. I'd love to hear your opinion about it.

Why do you think Google opted for Dart as opposed to Golang for Flutter? Golang seems to be growing in popularity year by year and is a pretty cool language to write and work with. So why not capitalise on that ? Great video comparison btw, thank you Max.

App Store: "Zero new apps per user..." What do you mean? I periodically download and use new apps, some stay on my device, others get deleted (usually cause they are annoyingly ad-supported or crash) I understand there are tons of apps on the store but Search and Categories often throws up a variety worth checking out and sometimes I do.

I'm glad to see Flutter grew so much since this video

RN using JS have tons of lib in the web for improve our development. And about Flutter?

Thank you for the video, I was looking for this

A professional video, comprehensive and fair.

Awesome comparison. Thanks!

as react-native developer I'm Not Believe needs condition for android and ios its almost same in case you want different UI from android and ios

@Academind aren't you the same guy who has video courses on Udemy about Flutter?

I think Flutter is so heavy pushed by Google because of Fuchsia project. You can write apps for it with Flutter even nowadays. Because Google wants to change from Android to Fuchsia in next five years, it's reasonable step to prepare some accessible and powerful toolkit which will grow and mature to that point in time.

Very good video..Thanks so much! Your tutorials are great. I'd like to choose Flutter but I'm learning React JS (in your Udemy class) for my web app so I'm thinking React Native might be better choice? Can I possibly share code between React JS & React Native for my same app?

Without Xamarin it isn't that full. + we can't ignore the fact that behind flutter we have google, whose new OS Fuchsia will be using flutter as native app framework.

i really enjoy your delivery, keep it up sir.

Are notification possbile? I mean for example I have a timer and i want to run it and make the alarm ring even if i'm not in the open application. Can it work? Can I have the time shown in the notification bar while running down? thanks

Hi, I wanna aceess EOSIO blockchain through mobile app. Should I take your ionic course or flutter course? Is it possible to connect android native app written in Java to EOSIO?

Love you max, you're the best. Thanks for making such videos :) really helpful.

I'll have to check it out, but since it is backed by Google, doesn't give me much hope. Google product & code base is the equivalent of the flavor of the month. And honestly, the force towards material design is a massive pain-point. Google forcing material design on everything is not a good thing.

Great comparison. So boiling it down, Flutter isn't really embracing iOS and Android as two target platforms, but trying to unify the whole mobile world by "enforcing" Material Design on both OS's. Well played, Google. The problem is, I can build an app with React Native with single code base too, if I ignore the UI guidelines and don't have rare needs (for which Flutter probably doesn't have widgets either). I have a feeling that in the end, Flutter will become popular as a *lightweight* solution mainly for developing Android apps while RN for iOS. (RN components already seem to have better quality for iOS in general)

This video really helps a lot. Thank you!

Don't forget about Adobe AIR it works very well both on iOS and Android devices.

What you think of fusetools? They says true write once use everywhere. Compiles to native and uses JS. I just don't see a lot of talk about them so am bit shy to learn it. I'm new so not sure which is best framework to learn

I use Flutter and it has made development so fast!

Thank you very much for interesting and detailed comparison.

Hi Maximilian. I want to buy your flutter course, but I'm not sure whether it is really updated for version 1.0. Could you please confirm that ? Thanks

Thanks to you. It is simple and easy.

With flutter i can't use a lot of elements from android like broadcast receivers, services and so on..

I took native android and iOS classes. They weren’t that bad. Once you get into deep, you see they are literally same thing. Same mvc ideas. Same model. There’s bidirectional relation between android dev and ios dev. I took max’s react course and started looking at react native. I would use react native to built basic apps but not for huge apps.

Hi Max, video is awesome, i like compare languages and framworks :) What about google ads? Do all freamwoork support ads in their own code? Can we use ads as in web aplication? Best Regards.

I want to attend your course on Udemy for Flutter; but I am using PC not Mac. So do I need to use mac if I need to develop IOS apps with flutter? is it a must?

It was really helpful, thank you so much Maximilian Schwarzmüller.

So, I guess if I just want to make a small app without hardware-specific features I can just go for a progressive web app? Someone recommended React to me, but as I'd have to learn all the required JS frameworks from scratch it feels like overkill.

why isnt angular here Im trying the documentation and its about making an app

More important then performance gaps is the cpu usage for me. With other words: is my app burning down the accu.

Sir i try Flutter but Layout part very difficult according Android native have you any suitable solution create app layout in Flutter fastly.

I understand these videos are for beginners, but it's sort of misleading, when you stay stuff like Java and Swift don't have to be compiled or that React Native code gets compiled, (true to some extent, but not the way you imply) whereas in fact RN has JavaScript being loaded via JSCore and native components that are compiled, which is what I would call a "hybrid app" instead of Cordova. Flutter is a completely different story also. Not much in common with RN and NS.

My friend uses Unity. It is really cool and an app will work on iPhone as well. And finally, you phone shouldn't be connected to the Internet.

i am using flutter and have found performance to be much slower than native but development process is much faster

Can PWA's be monetised by adding ads?

Isn't saying that java isn't compiled quite inaccurate if not incorrect? It's compiled into bytecode! Which in turn is executed by the android version of the JVM. But java is compiled nevertheless.

Very clear explanation. Thanks a lot and congrats!

Max you are just awesome man! :-) thanks for sharing valuable info. How about xamarin? Isn't it better than flutter?

Thanks a lot for this excellent tutorial.

Power... 1.flutter 2.react native 3. Native script Ease of learning... 1.native script 2.react native 3.flutter Agree???....