React Native or Flutter — What Should I Pick To Build My Mobile App?

Adhithi Ravichandran

6 min readJun 20, 2019

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Building cross-platform mobile apps is trending these days, with the advent of frameworks that can build native apps without using swift for iOS or Java for Android.

React Native and Flutter are the two most popular cross-platform mobile development frameworks that are being used to build thousands of mobile apps today. If you have to pick React…

Adhithi Ravichandran

Written by Adhithi Ravichandran

Software Consultant, Author, Speaker, React Native|React|GraphQL|Cypress Dev & Indian Classical Musician

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