SwiftUI: I'm not sure Apple wants to help on cross-platform development. The mobile support is good and can very often outperform ReactNative, but web support is improving but it's still not perfect, as SEO and small JS bundles matter for the web. Its tradeoffs are different compared React-Native, but both platforms looks good, and should be chosen according to the usecase and context. It is also a serious cross-platform solution, with Microsoft building React-Native-MacOs and React-Native-Windows, and Web support already used on highly critical products such as Twitter (see React-Native-Web and my blog post about Atomic CSS-in-JS).įlutter is also a strong platform. The React-Native re-architecture (Fabric/JSI/Turbomodules) should be available in the upcoming year, and help remove many of the performance issues we could encounter so far. I almost see it as a dependency injection framework to inject platform-specific primitives where default React-Native abstractions are not a good fit. It has many escape hatches which makes it not so risky to adopt. React-Native is a strong platform for cross-platform development.

I'm totally biased toward ReactNative, as I'm running it on my Gatsby static blog, and will give a talk about cross-platform at ReactNative Europe at the end of the week :)

It looks like, if sharing UI code is not needed, Kotlin is able to share everything else, and would be a good cross-platform choice.

Kotlin is already running on the backend with Ktor, and on the frontend with Kotlin / JS.Īn open-sourced demo app ( PeopleInSpace) supports all these platforms: For example, Reaktive is a Kotlin multiplatform module of Reactive Extensions (Observables). It's a whole ecosystem that is likely to be built on KMP, with the publication of cross-platform modules. The Kotlin code becomes available for consuming in SwiftUI/Objective-C based iOS applications. It is currently possible to share code such as: Kotlin Multiplatform allows you to share logic written in Kotlin between Android and iOS, and to access native APIs for each platform.Īt the moment, it is not possible to share UI code, and we don't really know if this is an actual goal of this project.īut why not a cross-platform UI solution based on Jetpack Compose ( alpha released last week), the Kotlin declarative UI framework built by Google? After ReactNative and Flutter, a new cross-platform solution is emerging: Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) has just been released in alpha.

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