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iOS system design

Native vs cross-platform

You're the CTO of a startup building new iOS and Android apps. Lay out your criteria for choosing between native, Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Multiplatform, and tell me your decision.

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The criteria are product nature (platform API, performance, and UI density needs), team skills and the hiring market, time to launch versus long-term maintenance cost, and ecosystem risk. The central fork is whether you share the UI too (Flutter/RN) or only the logic (KMP).

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