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For the app folks here: is it still worth shipping mobile apps with Expo (React Native)? I feel like running separate Swift and Kotlin codebases is the way to go nowadays

Rolf Smit @Rolf-Smit6d1/2

Mobile developer since 2010 here. React Native is among the purists out of fashion, but I mostly see web developers still use it. Also yes, there is some movement back into maintaining two separate native code bases (I know of one big company that dropped cross platform recently). However Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose are for certain the two top picks for cross platform right now.

07:16 · Oct 23, 2026commit 2418532

Rolf Smit @Rolf-Smit6d2/20393b6c

Something to add: Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose is basically the same thing as writing a native Android app. Same layout, same language, same libraries, true native rendering. In fact, you're basically building a native Android app and getting the iOS app for free. In my…