Should You Learn Native or Cross-Platform Mobile Development?

Cross-platform vs Native mobile development. This is a hot debate amongst the mobile development community. In this video, I go over the practical reasons for why you might want to consider learning one over the other.

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Intro: (0:00)
1. Native vs. Cross-platform as a career choice: (0:57)
2. Native vs. Cross-platform as a freelancer: (4:15)
3. Native vs. Cross-platform as a business choice: (7:37)

[akashp]

My man Kenny!. Seeing you after a long time... Good to have you back. I'm a mobile developer now in RN. Last time we met, i was in web dev

[d.e]

Thank you dude for the informative content as always. I am looking forward to choose the path of a programmer (im having a passion for informatics and mathematics too) and right now I'm in the phase in which I am discovering and documenting about all kind of stuff related to this career and not only (I like seeing different perspectives over the various subjects) as a hobby and this is one of my favourite channels about it.

[talhayousaf]

I'm React Native developer having 1.5 years of experience and recently I'm working on a project which end up a very tricky with the RN because of the performance issues especially on android while working on debug apk (Runs much better on release one). I did all the possibility optimizations as I could but still it lacks performance. After going hard through this I realise that Its very important to have atleast one Native platform experience and how much important the native development is when performance it comes to performance.

[nirbhaysingh]

Hi Kenny thank you so much for clearing out my doubts, love your videos man been here since the start❤.

[nanassportsvibe]

Thank you for always talking about mobile app. There’s not a lot of info on it out there. Most of them are in Hindi which makes it hard. But I do have a request. Can you please make videos on roadmaps or things one need to learn to become a good and better android native and IOS native developer? Thank you 🙏🏾.

[alejandro.p]

I personally think Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile looks very promising. It may be the future of enterprise level applications.

[JediMasterT]

Hello sir, full time full stack dev, I've dabbled in android dev for schooling purposes only but I feel like I could build a decent CRUD app fairly easily, thank you for the no BS input for solving my cross platform vs native debate in my head lol. I appreciate your time.

[erfanmohajersoltani]

It's a long time I've got a value of your videos <3

[KIKII.K]

as always, very good info and video quality! thanks Kenny <3

[alejorag]

So weird that you mentioned that idea about a bluetooth device that tracks vitals as an example for when to use native instead of cross platform since the first project I was involved in as a Swift developer (coming from a Flutter/Node background) was basically just that, except that the device only focused on Pulmonary Functions, lol. Great video as always btw, just wanted to share that random story.

[efpzzsw]

Thankyou sm for this video Kenny.
Love

[ilyaslamrani]

Awesome content and interesting discussion.

[djent]

I hope anyone can answer my question: I wanna start building a platform like a marketplace where third parties can supply and other third parties can demand. I wanna build a website and an app. I am really in the starting fase so the project is at an real infant state. But i wanna know what are the best or the most relevant i can use to do something like this? Thanks in advance!

[MrUploader]

I would say native is the way to go since most software companies do native apps. Multiple platform development may be the future but they are still relatively new tools. It's good to know but start with the basics.

[tamodsar]

what an amazing video, never done mobile development, main job is a quant dev, looking to work on my side project idea

[seetsamolapo]

Hey Kenny what books would you recommend for native android development? And is Java still a viable language if one does not wish to use Kotlin?

[okorojigodswill]

Hello Kenny, please what cross platform do you think is better to learn, between Flutter and React.. greeting from Nigeria

[xbdjkym]

Hello im studying programming in java is there a way to create cross-platform java applications ? IF yes is there a way to create them for windows + linux + mac + ios + android ?

[RuiAlmeida]

hey, i been learning how to code from 0.

i am learning html, css and going to javascript soon, but what i really want is mobile dev.

what do u think is the best way to learn cross-platform mobile dev?

i was thinking going from javascript to react then react native, do u think that a good path to follow? And do you recommend any courses that are free online to do that?

I been doing free code camp for the html, css and js and react (soon), but i don't think they have react native for mobile dev

[danielfullerton]

i am building an app project using react native, and i recently started outsourcing with upwork, worked with a couple of freelance developers, right now i have a developer that i work with consistently