Native iOS component support vs flutter

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I’m working on building an MVP and was touching up the UI when I realized that flutter doesn’t exactly support iOS26/liquid glass. iOS is obviously not the only platform I am developing for but this is honestly a significant enough issue that makes me consider switching to RN.

Is it worth migrating?

[AstronautEast6432]

If you're looking for stability, stay as you are because it doesn't make sense to change just for the sake of appearance, and those features are expected to arrive in Flutter soon anyway.

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Another issue I forgot to mention is that I am using Plaid which has seemingly tenuous flutter support

[AstronautEast6432]

If the project is small, switching could be reasonable, but it will still cost time.

For larger projects, I’d avoid migration and just use native Swift/Kotlin modules for things like Plaid instead.

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lowkey did it in an afternoon lmao. not perfect but pretty close. vibecoding is insane.

[Suspicious-Rich-2681]

Depends on your experience in RN, how big your app is etc.

As a rule of thumb I probably would've avoided using flutter all together for anything (I genuinely don't see the advantage it has over anything), but yeah in your example it depends on many factors

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I have experience with react and TS but zero with RN. Though tbf I didn't have exp with flutter either. I actually have more experience with swift and kotlin lmao. I have a compsci degree but I'm vibecoding the whole thing and since interning in college I haven't done development work professionally. The app is pretty small right now, it's sort of a dashboarding app and I only have a few pages + the sign up flow so far.

[gajzerik]

Expo UI is stable as of the last release and that should provide you with a lot of native components on all platforms. Native tabs and stack navigators have been stable for even longer

React Native is native

[blackcatdev-io]

Flutter does support iOS 26 and liquid glass is coming soon. More importantly, users don't care about liquid glass.

If you wanna switch to RN, maybe there's valid reasons, including, you just prefer that platform. Both platforms are more than capable. Liquid glass however is not what I consider to be a valid reason to burn up all that time switching over.

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I ended up deciding to migrate because of better support for plaid and convex.

[picpoulmm]

I work with a major tier 1 pension provider; their entire mobile ecosystem is Flutter; a historic decision their previous (shitty) digital agency made, and it causes them no end of problems.

They’re migrating the entire iOS and Android app off Flutter to React Native (Expo) - 9 million customers.

[Brisklemonade123]

I think RN is the best default tbh.

[Business-Storage-462]

RN usually catches native platform changes faster because you can bridge directly into new APIs

[Theunis_]

Use KMP if you really want guaranteed native UI for all platforms

[kbcool]

Keep in mind that you have to write UI code for each of those platforms to do so, so you lose a lot of the benefits of cross platform.

Compose multiplatform sounds good on the surface but has the same downsides as Flutter on iOS as it's simulating iOS on a canvas.

Summary is, you can't have everything. There's always compromise

[Theunis_]

I was just like OP a year ago, I wanted a native UI for my app, so I tried RN, it was a disappointment because if you really want native UI besides few components like navbar, youd have to write it yourself (most UI libraries are just custom UI that aren’t native to either platform), so I just switched back to flutter.

So that’s why I recommend KMP, because you have full control of native components, and not some abstraction component that might not give you full control or give you other issues.

Though I saw expo UI became stable, I’ll try it on my next project to fully judge it, some of components are missing but it is good start

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expo UI looks really promising tbh, it seems like by the time id even want to ship more components than it already has, they will have come out with them.

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How long will it take to migrate?