Is AI making React Native obsolete?
summary
Builds a SwiftUI app, implements a React Native port, then uses Claude agents to convert SwiftUI to Kotlin and measures 3× tokens, 8× prompts and nearly double the time to reach a finalized app; Kotlin output repeatedly needs extra polishing and never matches UI/Material quality. Tracks session tokens, prompt counts, time to functional parity, iteration count and duplicated code. RevenueCat dataset (115,000 apps) shows React Native apps have higher monetization — 55% higher revenue per install — suggesting RN still wins on coordination and shipped features.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:40Customer case study
- 3:02AI's impact on framework choice
- 5:48Experiment results and insights
- 10:20Why React Native still wins
- 13:47Key reasons to choose React Native
- 15:11Conclusion and summary
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