In the next few years, the number of active smartphone users in our world is expected to transcend 10 billion. With so many smartphone users out there, the likelihood of clients visiting your website from their mobile device is higher than from a desktop. So your company will concentrate on creating customer-friendly mobile applications alongside a website. Cross-Platform Mobile Development Frameworks and Native Mobile Development Frameworks are the two specialized mobile development frameworks, similar to the web frameworks for web apps and website creation. React Native React Native is a mobile framework, based on JavaScript and ReactJS. Facebook originally designed it to build mobile apps. React Native Development helps developers of mobile apps create UIs without following the conventional approach where developers create UIs with JavaScript and native Web APIs. It uses actual iOS or Android components when it comes to creating user interfaces with the React Native. To create the UI it uses JSX (JavaScript-XML), which is similar to XML. Advantages of React Native The React Native works on a virtual DOM (Object Model Document). A virtual DOM is a standard JavaScript object that can be controlled and modified continuously, without using traditional DOM APIs. React Native prevents constant updating of DOM, which offers better performance compared to other libraries and frameworks for your mobile app. Reacting Native is easy to learn. Getting started with it is pretty simple for developers who have had previous JavaScript experience. The development of mobile apps with this framework is very fast. In addition to its cross-platform capability, it comes with a “Hot Reloading feature” that helps you see the changes you make to your code in real-time The React Native uses built-in components that can be used without the need to build them from scratch for development. Disadvantages of React Native Apps developed with React Native won’t be able to offer the output of native apps like that especially with applications that require advanced features. Since React Native uses JavaScript as its core language, memory management issues can arise with the apps built with it. Flutter Flutter is an open-source, Google-developed mobile device SDK. With Flutter, when compared with other cross-platform frameworks, it is simple for developers to create immersive and beautiful UI for both Android and iOS. Apps built on Flutter can fully compile native code that gives it an impeccable native feel. The Flutter Advantages Debugging apps that are designed using Flutter is much simpler because of the real-time ability to see improvements you’ve made to your smartphone or emulator application. Flutter is fairly easier to learn than most other languages because it runs on Dart, a programming language that is simple and fast object-oriented. The Flutter Drawbacks Flutter is a brand new language as it should be learned from scratch by developers. Whereas, it isn’t going to be a problem for experienced developers as pick-up is fairly easy. Developing apps that require many device-specific functions, such as high-end games with Flutter, will be difficult. Xamarin Xamarin is an open-source mobile device platform operated by Microsoft’s tech giant. Apps for Android and iOS can be developed using C # with Xamarin. This framework provides its users with the best native interface and also has the support of a broad developer community. In opposition to the hybrid apps that use cloud technology, Xamarin compiles the code to native code for individual platforms. Xamarin Pros It delivers highly immersive and rich UI to its users because it uses native UI elements. You can easily build standardized UI across multiple platforms, using Xamarin. Forms. Xamarin Architecture is capable of providing decent performance as compared to other frameworks such as Ionic, PhoneGap, Corona SDK, etc. Xamarin Cons When compared with other similar structures, the Xamarin IDE can be very costly. Often developers will face problems when integrating third-party libraries with this system. Typically, Xamarin apps have a very large size as compared to relate apps produced using other frameworks. Ionic Ionic is an open-source, cross-platform mobile application framework based on both Apache Cordova and Angular. In this framework’s latest update, developers are given the option to pick any UI framework, such as React, Angular, or Vue.js. Ionic Pros This framework is very easy to use as it uses regular web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Angular. Through using this platform, developers can save a lot of time, as it comes with highly comprehensive documentation. Ionic comes with plugins and components which look similar to the native elements. Ionic Cons Ionic is down when it comes to designing applications that require heavy graphics. Compared to other native apps the output of ionic apps is not that great.