Engineering7 min read
Choosing between native and cross-platform
The decision is less about performance than most arguments assume, and more about where your team's attention will go.
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The framing is usually performance. In practice, cross-platform tooling is fast enough for the large majority of applications, and the real question is different: which platform conventions matter enough to get exactly right?
Where cross-platform pays
- Content and workflow apps where screens are mostly lists and forms
- Teams with one codebase's worth of maintenance capacity
- Products where feature parity across platforms is a requirement
Where native still wins
- Deep OS integration — widgets, background work, hardware access
- Interfaces that must feel indistinguishable from the system
- Sustained high-frame-rate graphics work