Published on: April 2026
EVALUATING CROSS-PLATFORM VS NATIVE MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: A PRACTICAL CASE STUDY
Dhruv Nileshkumar Panchal
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The way mobile application development is growing fast has brought about many different ways to develop mobile applications. These ways are mainly divided into two groups: -platform and native frameworks. When it comes to choosing the framework it is a very important decision that affects how well the mobile application works, how long it takes to develop what the users think of it and how well it can be scaled up. This paper is going to compare -platform frameworks, specifically React Native and Flutter, with developing mobile applications in the native way using Android with Java or Kotlin and iOS with Swift.
We are going to make some mobile applications using frameworks. The goal is to see which framework is the best. We will make the application with each framework so it is a fair test.We want to know things, like how it takes for the application to load, how well it works and how much memory it uses. We also want to know how hard it is to make the application and how big it's
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Panchal, D. N. (2026). Evaluating Cross-Platform Vs Native Mobile Application Development: A Practical Case Study. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.456
Panchal, Dhruv. "Evaluating Cross-Platform Vs Native Mobile Application Development: A Practical Case Study." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.456.
Panchal, Dhruv. "Evaluating Cross-Platform Vs Native Mobile Application Development: A Practical Case Study." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.456.
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