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Cross-platform mobile development is how a single team ships one app to iOS and Android simultaneously — and it's become the default strategy at companies from BMW to Shopify. Here's a story that illustrates why. A few years ago, BMW had a real problem. Their My BMW app ran on two separate codebases — one for iOS, one for Android. Two teams. Two sets of bugs. Two release cycles. Every feature took twice as long. Every bug fix required two parallel solutions. So they asked a question that more and more companies are asking: what if we built it once? They chose Flutter. Today, 300+ engineers maintain a single codebase for the My BMW app. It works the same whether you're unlocking your car from an iPhone or a Galaxy S. The app shipped faster, cost less to maintain, and the teams could finally focus on building better features instead of keeping two codebases in sync. That's the core promise of cross-platform mobile development. And in 2026, it's not a gamble. I...