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by NateLawson 3899 days ago
There are many non-native apps in the top 100. Cordova is popular for business apps (Amazon and Walgreens both use it, for example). Unity (C#) is extremely popular for games because they built an awesome dev environment and it compiles to native, thanks to Mono's translation layer.

I agree that React Native is great, and you will be seeing a lot more apps using it, especially as their Android version comes out.
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dionidium 3898 days ago
I work on an SDK that's used by a lot of companies you've heard of. My experience is that a significant minority of them are using Xamarin/Cordova/Appcelerator and that we're asked if we support them more often now than we were a year ago. (Anecdotal, obviously.)
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eljimmy 3898 days ago
Do you have some examples? Not doubting you, I'd genuinely like to take a look at them.
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NateLawson 3898 days ago
Sure, just look at our public view of the data. It's limited to the top 500 free apps in the US. Choose category "cross-platform" and then compare iOS vs. Android. List of apps and the SDKs in each is at the bottom.

https://sourcedna.com/stats

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