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> - Go true native, not hybrid

What about for games? Unity is extremely tempting, especially when the alternative is to write the game twice in two different languages...

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I don't think there's native for games. You're going to use a game engine and almost none of the OS UX conventions, so go with Unity. I don't think there are any developers that don't.

I'd say Unity is native. Arguably so are JavaScript runtimes like react-native or nativescript. She's probably just referring to the poor experience of hybrid web apps.

I'd honestly just lean in on PWAs if you're a content/SEO focussed business.

Exactly, Unity and Unreal makes a native and highly optimized graphics engine for every platform they support. The content you create lives on top of a native app.

Games are the exception to this rule. Apple and Google have no problem featuring games built in Unity as long as they are performant and polished.

Isn't this true for all apps? If an app is performant and polished, while also following UI/UX guidelines, it has just as good of a chance to be featured if is React vs Native? Is there anything that goes against this? Or is the idea its much harder to follow UI/UX guides while using a hybrid system?

I suspect that the reviewers see LOTS of low-quality apps written on portable frameworks every day. These are accessible and cheap options for doing quick development, and unfortunately that means that lots of junk gets churned out on them, and some of it even looks pretty decent since there are so many free UI frameworks. There are some platforms that are almost as easy and cheap to use as wordpress.

A company that does a respectable job of developing a nice-looking and performant native-application is going to stand very far apart from this crowd. The same company may have done just as well in terms of performance and UI conformity with React Native but will they stand out as well to tired and jaded reviewers? I think that is what the OP is getting at. No one can predict who will be featured, but true native is probably one thing that helps.

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