When it comes to mobile app development, the choice between Flutter and React Native often hinges on performance considerations. While both frameworks have their advocates, actual benchmark results…

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When choosing between Flutter and React Native for mobile app development, performance is a crucial factor. A recent benchmarking study compared app size, memory, and CPU usage for three app types on both frameworks using current versions. Flutter generally showed smaller APK sizes and better CPU & memory usage, with smoother scrolling and fewer framedrops compared to React Native. However, React Native had a higher FPS in bulk Lottie animations but at the cost of increased CPU and memory usage. The findings suggest that while both have their strengths, Flutter slightly edges out in overall performance efficiency.

Flutter Vs React Native : Performance Benchmarks you can’t miss ! 🔥⚡️

standard flatlist in rn is not for large list and image component now a-day expo provide <a href="https://app.daily.dev/expo" data-mention-id="ObgNxEMop1zg3jphkVgaC" data-mention-username="expo">@expo</a>/image that very performance
these benchmark using weak way to make rn, for rn-dev really need know-how which lib is good like react there have too many options not like widget in flutter
please try to using flashlist from shopyfy and expo/image then benchmark again
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Gn_Gydvw--/f_auto/v1724911652/ugc/content_76d581f7-4880-4bf7-b4c8-85e932559dc8" alt="image">

Tell me one thing about react native thats better than with flutter.
For real, i’m curious.

Performant wise dart is better than js but as we talk about react-native, these are points that highlight as compare to flutter :-
<ol>
<li>Developer Experience</li>
<li>Web Developer’s don’t have to learn other language</li>
<li>Large community support and packages</li>
<li>Support natively written modules (java, swift &amp; objective-c)</li>
<li>Give Native Look (flutter don’t provide native look)</li>
<li>after rn version 0.71 RN can also provide 60 fps</li>
<li>There many companies various sizes using react-native including FB, Tesla, Ig, Airbnb, Shopify and many more</li>
</ol>
These are points that we should also consider apart from performance

I’ve used both, Flutter all the way for me, Dart is so much better than JS, I mean anything is better than JS…

I was super confused about where to start because Flutter’s community is smaller than React’s, which made me a bit worried about getting into the Flutter ecosystem. But these benchmarks are a pretty solid reason not to ignore Flutter.