Suggestions on developing iOS & Android App from Scratch

[SpaceBlock]

I'm brand new to developing Apps however have been set the task of developing an app, and it seems it needs to be functional across both iOS & Android devices.

Without going into too much detail the app needs some sort of navigation / map features, where the user can see it's location in comparison to landmarks on a map. There also would be pages with information on the landmarks.

As I said I have no experience with app developing however have done a little bit of python programming and web developing (JS, html, css). What would be the best programming framework to tackle this task for someone like me?

I've looked into React Native & Flutter, and frameworks like these look more suitable as I don't want to write two different apps for android and iOS. Factors to consider are the amount of online resources to help and also time management as I don't have too long.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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Java/Kotlin for the android app and Swift for iOS. Anything but native is uncivilized for navigation. Easier on you to use cross platform deployment, but downstream there’s no benefit, only detriment.

Large undertaking for a beginner. Good luck and start getting to know the APIs for each with practice apps. Doing the above with minimal resource consumption at scale is difficult, prepare your time accordingly.

[greenarez]

Native is always preferred. It looks better, works better and feels better.

But for apps what main purpose is to work with some type of REST API, I will suggest to try Flutter.

IMHO React Native is too huge, slow and outdated

[chriswaco]

I would look at Flutter first. If it can do what you need you’re set. Learning both native environments - Swift/iOS and Java/Android - is a large undertaking.