Cross-platform or native mobile app development? Pros, cons, and how to choose

Purrweb14 Jan, 2022Technology

John owns SafePizza, a contact-free food delivery startup. In 2020 his team launched an iOS app which gained thousands of users in the first three months of the pandemic. But many people with Android devices couldn?t use the app. SafePizza is written in Swift, and hiring another team to develop the Android version from scratch would be too expensive. This is the problem of native mobile app development. If John chose a cross-platform framework for his project, he would have covered the needs of all his customers and spent less money on development. But it doesn?t mean that going cross-platform is always better. In this article we compare native vs cross-platform mobile app development and discuss main choice criteria.