React Native: 5.43% of apps (4.18% of installs)
Flutter: 4.22% of apps (1.39% of installs)
It's clear from the ratio of apps to installs that React Native is used by apps that are on average 3x more popular, but that isn't really a sign that the framework is less viable, just that more of the most popular apps are were written using something else - and I'd speculate that in many cases those apps predated Flutter.
I actually find it more interesting that the number of apps written with Flutter compared to React Native is fairly similar. To me, that suggests that Flutter is gaining ground rapidly, because that very much wasn't the case when I first starting using Flutter on my hobby project a few years back.
In any case, your 25% target seems unrealistic for any framework [1]. Unless your takeaway is also that React Native is not a viable target until it too hits 25%.
[1] I'm discounting Kotlin from these stats as it's not a framework [2], and similarly I don't understand why they counted the Android components as a framework.
[2] Actually, I'm surprised Kotlin is this way down in the charts... If native code is now more popular than Kotlin, that could cause compatibility issues now some phone manufacturers are starting to experiment with RISC-V instead of Arm.
guideamigo|2 years ago
ralferoo|2 years ago
React Native: 5.43% of apps (4.18% of installs) Flutter: 4.22% of apps (1.39% of installs)
It's clear from the ratio of apps to installs that React Native is used by apps that are on average 3x more popular, but that isn't really a sign that the framework is less viable, just that more of the most popular apps are were written using something else - and I'd speculate that in many cases those apps predated Flutter.
I actually find it more interesting that the number of apps written with Flutter compared to React Native is fairly similar. To me, that suggests that Flutter is gaining ground rapidly, because that very much wasn't the case when I first starting using Flutter on my hobby project a few years back.
In any case, your 25% target seems unrealistic for any framework [1]. Unless your takeaway is also that React Native is not a viable target until it too hits 25%.
[1] I'm discounting Kotlin from these stats as it's not a framework [2], and similarly I don't understand why they counted the Android components as a framework.
[2] Actually, I'm surprised Kotlin is this way down in the charts... If native code is now more popular than Kotlin, that could cause compatibility issues now some phone manufacturers are starting to experiment with RISC-V instead of Arm.