Is the “Native vs. Cross-Platform” debate finally over?

Mobile teams have lived in the same tension for years: business asks for one codebase that ships on every phone, while engineers and designers push for Swift and Kotlin so the app feels like it belongs on the device.

A new angle now coming out of the mobile dev community is that AI could remove the need to choose. Instead of a framework that sits between the platforms, we let agents write true native code in parallel.

The workflow looks like this:

1. An engineer and a PM write a detailed feature specification covering functional and non-functional requirements
2. An agent produces production-ready Swift for iOS.
3. At the same moment, another agent produces production-ready Kotlin for Android.
4. A mobile engineer reviews both outputs, tunes edge cases, and lands the code.
5. Robust E2E validation testing is conducted

The result is meant to give you:

• Zero overhead: no bridge, no shared runtime, no custom rendering thread. • Immediate access to every new platform API the day it is released. • The delivery speed we associate with cross-platform, without the long-term tax of a third-party stack.

If the generation step becomes more reliable, the cost of owning two codebases drops to roughly the cost of reviewing and testing them. That shift could make traditional multiplatform frameworks an optional preference rather than mandatory requirement.