The great debate: Should your first mobile app be built natively (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android) or using a cross-platform framework like React Native or Flutter?
The Cold Hard Truth
Unless you are building a heavily graphic-intensive game, a video rendering pipeline, or an app that requires low-level hardware access, go cross-platform for your V1.
Why React Native Wins for MVPs
- Half the Codebase: You write the logic once and deploy to both the App Store and Google Play simultaneously.
- Faster Iteration: Hot-reloading allows developers to see changes instantly, cutting QA and iteration cycles by weeks.
- Easier Hiring: It is significantly easier (and often cheaper) to find skilled web developers who can adapt to React Native than it is to hire top-tier iOS and Android engineers simultaneously.
At Aideckk, we leverage React Native to get our founders to market faster, ensuring they can test their core mechanics without burning hundreds of thousands of dollars on duplicate native code.