How To Choose Between Ionic & React Native Mobile App Frameworks? “Mobile is not the future, it is the now. Meet your customers in the environment of their choice, not where it is convenient for you.” Cyndie Shaffstall, Founder, Spider Trainers The two most popular frameworks to develop mobile apps, React Native and Ionic are known for their versatility, robustness, features, and functionalities. Moreover, the fact that they are open source and available for free makes them highly cost effective as well. The blog aims at clearing the doubts about choosing the best framework between React Native and Ionic to build a cross platform (read hybrid) mobile app. However, before going into the pros and cons of choosing a particular framework, let us know about native and cross platform apps.
Native vs Hybrid or Cross Platform App Native apps are written for a particular mobile OS platform like Android or iOS in languages such as Java, Objective C, and Swift among others. Since the codes cannot be shared across platforms, the apps fail to run on platforms they are not built for in the first place. However, the apps can easily access each and every feature of the native platform. Hybrid or cross platform apps can seamlessly work across platforms and are written in