Should I continue learning Flutter or start with KMM?
Article Summary
Flutter or KMM? If you're building cross-platform mobile apps in 2024, this question is keeping a lot of engineering leaders up at night.
This article breaks down the practical differences between Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) to help teams make an informed decision. It covers architecture, developer experience, performance, and ecosystem maturity from a real-world engineering perspective.
Key Takeaways
- Flutter offers complete UI sharing; KMM shares business logic only
- KMM integrates seamlessly with existing native codebases and tooling
- Flutter has larger community and more third-party packages available
- KMM provides better performance for complex native integrations
- Flutter's learning curve is steeper for native mobile developers
Critical Insight
Choose Flutter for greenfield projects with design-heavy UIs, or KMM when you need native performance and have existing native code to preserve.
