As an iOS developer, do have fear about Native Development? This is my thoughts about it: This is true many companies are asking for Hybrid development. But if we go for good product based companies, their first choice is Native Development. Yes, it’s true. So now, how to enhance our skill set if we want to stay in native development. Start exploring and developing the apps for different platforms like macOS, watchOS and iPadOS. Many product based companies prefer to hire a mobile engineer over iOS engineer. Try to create good apps for these platforms and put them on GitHub profile. Also, we know that industry moving to AI faster. We should start exploring AI/ML based framework and build cool projects. IMO, we should not underestimate the power of Native Development. May be, we can see some major steps towards native development only by Apple. Thank you ☺️
ROHIT GARG
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Nitin Aggarwal Your point is quite valid that native development is not going anywhere & will always be supported by their parent company Apple or Google. However at the same time my opinion is that the majority of the new projects (both in service based & product based companies) are getting launched in cross-platform tech stacks (Flutter, RN, KMP etc) due to their seamless performance & huge cost-effectiveness. So native development is kind of used in legacy codebases only So just want to add that as a mobile software developer, we should not become stagnant & always be open to learn new framework/techs in our domain. Infact this is also true for entire IT industry that learning never stops & we have to adapt the new trending patterns.
I think now KMM is getting into the race, for shared logic + native ui. I don't know whether it's going to succeed or not.
Both native and hybrid platforms have their strengths: hybrid offers faster development and cost savings, while native ensures top performance, seamless user experience, and full access to the latest device features. For apps requiring high responsiveness and advanced capabilities, native is often the superior choice.
Sudheer Kumar
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Yes, I completely agree—native development will always have its place. As a Flutter developer, I’ve encountered numerous challenges with hybrid languages. I vividly remember integrating the Zendesk chat SDK with Flutter, only to find that Zendesk didn't offer Flutter support. I had to write native code for both iOS and Android and then bridge it to create a Flutter package. It was both a rewarding and challenging experience. 😅
I’m a native iOS developer, currently doing Hybrid projects.
Tejaskumar Patel
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I agree!
Native will survive but hybrid apps took a significant size of market which already harmed the current job market, with the growth of AI more innovation ideas and work will continue for other languages like python and java, trends are shifting toward T-shaped workers.
Mike Henrey
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Native developer wil die soon, no one care about native developer and things are even worst for experience devs with more than 7-8 yrs. They are not find jobs with high salary, companies are preferred with 2-3 yrs and AI. Cross platform is new way to survive. This is happen because Apple open source Swift.
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