[agnivade]

Thanks. That cleared up a lot of doubts for me. I was in 2 minds, trying to start app development with native android or react-native.

I guess reading this thread makes me choose native android.

[vbezhenar]

IMO if you can afford to spend double time rewriting your app for another platform, just use native and don't think twice. But if you are constrained, react native might be a good choice among current cross-platform solutions.

[smrtinsert]

There is enough to learn in native mobile before jumping into a wrapper for it. You read the RN docs and you'll see you still need to know the underlying tech pretty well.