Native Vs. Xamarin: Which One is Best? What Are Their Benefits?

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No doubt 2020 is fastly approaching and all set to create a vibration in the field of mobile application development with eye-opening techniques. If your business is still limited with the Android or iOS mobile app, then its time to jump into the battle of choosing the perfect cross-platform mobile application development services that not only put your business at the right curve of the market but also add core value to your business.

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Before getting started with the battle of choosing the best cross-app development platform, one question that is continually hitting the mind is why companies are highly curious to pick the cross-app development platform for their next build in 2020?

Over the past few decades, the concept of cross-platform mobile app development has taken off in a big way. The biggest reason is, developers have to write the code once and employ it across all platforms including Android, iOS or Windows.

Apart, the prime reason behind choosing the cross-app development platform is that these codes can be reused and help you develop apps at the lowest price. Further, it ensures easier implementation and allows you to market it quickly.

These are the reasons; businesses choose cross-platform solutions for their next built...

Now the question is, which platform you should choose to develop a cross-platform mobile application?

To settle this debate, we have compared popular frameworks and examine the advantages and drawbacks of each approach. The prime goal of narrowing down all this detailed comparison is to help you choose what fits your project best in 2020...

Let's get started with the comparison: React Native or Xamarin- Which one you should choose?

React Native Vs. Xamarin: Understanding The Basics

When it comes to comparing the essential app development environment of these platforms, you need to know that React Native is the baby of Facebook. In contrast, Xamarin is developed and launched by Microsoft.

They both are open-source tools and a great mobile app development frameworks but to build reach native app; your Android app developer should have good knowledge of coding an app in JavaScript and React. On the other hand, to create a Xamarin App, your developer should have experience in coding in C#.

The perfect example of React Native apps is Airbnb, Myntra, Instagram, etc., whereas Olo, Storyo, FreshDirect are the few application builds with Xamarin.

Performance of Native Vs Xamarin Apps

As Xamarin is the baby of Microsoft, so it allows you to develop high-performance apps whereas React Native provides near-native app performance.

Unlike other web technologies, React Native provides you with all the tools that enable you to build super-fast apps. On the other side, Xamarin uses-platform-specific hardware acceleration to provide high app speed.

While the official site of Native claims that it provides high standard performance, but that can be achieved only with the languages such as Java, Objective-C and Swift. As Native framework allow you to use Native codes in your app, so you can develop some part of your app using Native code and remaining codes are developed using React Native. And the perfect example of this type of build is Facebook.

App Development Environment

Xamarin framework offers a complete package of the toolset for Android Application Development, whereas Native gives you all the flexibility to develop an app that perfectly fits your needs.

While developing an app with react native, you can leverage the great number of good IDEs and text editors available on the internet to access for free including Atom, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, Deco IDE and more. However, while using Xamarin for iPhone App Development, you have only option to work in Visual Studio. Though there are other environments as well, working with them is quite tricky.

Mobile App Development Speed

The hot reloading feature of React Native platform empowers the app developers to easily see the changes they made in the code without following any time-consuming process of code compilation. For iOS App Development, developers can formulate the application code into different independent blocks. Ultimately this enhances the flexibility of app development and makes it easier for the developer to upgrade the build with the time.

On the other hand, the Xamarin platform helps developers with all the development tools in Visual studio, that speed up the development process. Developers don't need to code the controls from scratch, though it helps you save a great time on building your next app.

Entry To Mobile Market

There is no use if developing an app if it has no market share.

If you are developing your next app with React Native uses JavaScript, then keep in mind, that it is currently used by 69.8% of developers, as per the latest report of stack Overflow Survey. Xamarin is also used by many great companies and startups such as Slack, BOSCH, Cognizant, and so on and have a significant market share.

Ending Note

If you are eyeing up for the winner of developing a cross-platform application, then understand that no platform is a perfect fit for all. Taking everything into consideration, including the comparison of Xamarin and Native approaches, it is not easy to come at the end conclusion point as both of them has two different sides.

On the one hand, we have a highly developed, universal and useful platform to satisfy the needs of mobile app developers; on the other hand, we have several reasons to choose Xamarin to manage the core processing of the Mobile app development in a quick time frame.

If you are clueless about which one to choose between Xamarin and React Native, I strongly recommend you to consider your app development needs and accordingly to evaluate the benefits and downsides of each platform to make a right decision.