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Comment by TheSheriff on "What's the easiest platform to develop a mobile app?" | Hashnode

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TheSheriff

Co-Founder, Founder, Entrepreneur & Problem Solver

Oct 18, 2017

Be careful. Easiest =/= Best for your use case.

Whilst React Native and similar would be easier they are limited in the native functionality they can achieve. Go through your requirements and determine which method is the best fit, not just the easiest, please.

Adam Wilson

Audio app developer

Oct 23, 2017

This is not true. React Native can be as native as you need it to be. You just need to find the right libraries to use, and if necessary write native modules yourself. This of course requires some familiarity with the native platform (i.e. Android and Java in this case).

The upshot of doing it this way, is that porting it to iOS you would have 80% or more of the work already done :)

TheSheriff

Co-Founder, Founder, Entrepreneur & Problem Solver

Oct 23, 2017

Fair, do you have any citations? Also, the rest of my answer is still relevant.

Adam Wilson

Audio app developer

Oct 24, 2017

You can take a look at the React Native docs... I've personally used it to build a couple of apps now, and I actually would not agree its the easier method. At least in one case (where part of the app is in C++) I think it would have taken me less time to use Swift and make it iOS only, but a lot more time to code up both native iOS and Android versions separately.