Nowadays, mobile fleet management solutions are becoming increasingly popular. Taxi driving, trucking, and even service companies include smartphones/tablets in their processes because of their many benefits. Using smart devices helps optimize the route, plan the service or delivery schedule, and, thus, reduce operational costs. 

Fleet management software offers a broad range of functionalities, controlling everything from on-time maintenance to fuel consumption, but the main benefit is to control the vehicle movement. 

React Native, Flutter, Ionic and Xamarin are the most popular cross-platform frameworks today. In some cases, developing your application with one of these frameworks might be a good alternative to a native approach since you need to create only one app that will work on multiple platforms.

However, you should keep in mind that cross-platform frameworks are just the wrappers for native. Each framework provides different opportunities for an app developer, so which one is better depends on your needs.

A hybrid or native mobile development approach — which to choose? We face this question very frequently when a customer asks us to make a suggestion in app development or when we plan to develop our own product. On the one hand, hybrid mobile development helps to save time because there is only one code compiled for multiple platforms (Android, iOS, etc.). On the other hand, native applications provide a more stable implementation. Here are some “classic” pros of the two approaches.