Cross-Platform vs. Native Mobile Development: Empirical Study
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
This paper empirically compares five implementations of the same plant-management app (native iOS and Android, Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Multiplatform, yielding eight runtime variants) using 2,000 repeated runs per variant. Guided by ISO/IEC 25010, it measures client-operation timing, rendering wrappers, source footprint, and dependencies.
Why it ranked
No. 33 of 62 with a score of 0.60. The panel rated it highest on technical depth (0.85) and new information (0.84), lowest on significance (0.48).
Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.60total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.48
- Reader interest0.63
- Audience breadth0.59
- Practical relevance0.66
- Substantiated0.81
- Technical depth0.85
- New information0.84
- Counts against: Promotional0.04
- Counts against: Overclaim0.14
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.54 | 0.30 | 0.62 | 0.48 | 0.32 | +0.24 | +0.116 |
| Reader interest | 0.52 | 0.50 | 0.86 | 0.63 | 0.36 | +0.26 | +0.163 |
| Audience breadth | 0.58 | 0.50 | 0.70 | 0.59 | 0.20 | +0.13 | +0.077 |
| Practical relevance | 0.70 | 0.55 | 0.72 | 0.66 | 0.17 | +0.22 | +0.145 |
| Substantiated | 0.95 | 0.70 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.25 | +0.05 | +0.041 |
| Technical depth | 0.96 | 0.70 | 0.88 | 0.85 | 0.27 | +0.05 | +0.042 |
| New information | 0.95 | 0.60 | 0.97 | 0.84 | 0.37 | +0.05 | +0.042 |
| Promotional | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.04 | −0.19 | −0.007 |
| Overclaim | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.12 | −0.11 | −0.015 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.604 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.604 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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