---
title: "Flutter vs React Native: The Battle of the Cross-platform Arena"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/flutter-vs-react-native-the-battle-of-the-cross-platform-arena-ivoaeglaa
source_url: https://cult.honeypot.io/reads/flutter-vs-react-native
type: article
source: "Honeypot"
published: 2021-11-01T10:27:09.345Z
updated: 2021-11-01T10:27:09.346Z
tags: ["react", "javascript", "flutter", "react-native"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 67
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Flutter vs React Native: The Battle of the Cross-platform Arena

**[Honeypot](https://daily.dev/sources/honeypot)** · 4 min read · 67 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Flutter is a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) used to build natively compiled applications. React Native was introduced back in 2015 by facebook to develop native Android and iOS applications. Flutter ships with native components by default and compiles to X86 and ARM out of the box.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@nishantkapadiya** · 0 upvotes

> yes I learn something, which platform is better

**@stnight99** · 0 upvotes

> good article.
>
>
> Some note:
> Flutter doesn't render a native component. It's like a game engine that renders stuff that looks and feels native but not truly native

**@akashptl328** · 0 upvotes

> Flutter is the future of Mobile app.

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Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#flutter](https://daily.dev/tags/flutter), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native)

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