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in 2023 it is a one liner to add native modules, very easy to link via normal cocoapods or gradle, then almost zero configuration.

Flutter is a joke because it reimplements literally what apple intended to perfect - rendering pipeline, a lot of things impossible to make good without using native api.

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When it works it's that simple. When it doesn't - perhaps because of some incompatibility between the native model and a recent Expo update, it's hours of debugging through the different layers to figure out what's going on. That's my experience starting a React Native project in 2023.

Flutter has issues with not using native UI, but I've found the package system with native modules to be way simpler and less issues. Unfortunately you're still stuck with Coacoapods though.

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