React Native app development services - one codebase for iOS and Android, delivered by a team that knows where React ends and native begins.

React Native is a framework for building real iOS and Android apps from a single JavaScript and TypeScript codebase. It is not a webview wrapper: it drives the platform's own native components, so users touch real native controls with real native gestures and accessibility. It is used when you want one product, one team and one codebase shipping to both app stores, rather than funding and maintaining two separate native builds. It is our usual cross-platform choice when a team or a product already lives in React.

No, though the criticism behind the question was real. Airbnb adopted React Native, sunset it, and published a candid engineering post-mortem about bridging complex native animations and the overhead of the old asynchronous JavaScript-to-native bridge. What the 'it's dead' articles omit is that Airbnb left before React Native was re-architected. The New Architecture - the Fabric renderer, TurboModules and the JSI, with Hermes as the engine - replaced that bridge with direct JavaScript-to-native communication and is now the default. Today Shopify says on its own engineering blog that it migrated all of its apps to React Native, Microsoft maintains the Windows and macOS versions of the framework, and React and React Native are stewarded by the independent React Foundation.

Much of it, and not the part you are probably picturing. The React model is the same - components, hooks, state - so your business logic, data fetching, validation and much of your architecture carry over, and any React developer can read the codebase. What does not carry over is the interface. React Native has no DOM and no CSS: it renders native views, so screens are rebuilt against platform components and platform patterns. Treat it as sharing the brain, not the body. Anyone promising you 'write once, run everywhere' is selling you the part that does not exist.

Both are excellent, and we build both, chosen per project. React Native fits teams already in the JavaScript and React ecosystem, shares logic with your web app, and hires from a very large talent pool. Flutter is excellent for highly custom, animation-rich interfaces, because it draws every pixel with its own engine rather than driving the platform's components. Neither is universally faster or better. In discovery we recommend the one that best fits your product, your team and your budget, and we put that recommendation in writing before any build.

Yes, when it is built properly, because it renders real native views rather than a web page in a shell. The person holding the phone is touching genuine platform controls. Apps feel wrong for reasons that are engineering failures rather than framework limits: lists that mount everything instead of recycling, animations driven from JavaScript rather than the UI thread, iOS patterns pasted onto Android, and testing done only on the newest handset in the room. We build to platform patterns, keep animations and gestures off the JavaScript thread, and profile on real mid-range devices.

Apple can reject any app, and being built with React Native is not a reason it would. Apps are judged on experience and policy, not on which framework built them - React Native apps ship in both stores every day. Rejections happen for the same reasons they happen to fully native apps: broken flows, missing privacy disclosures, unclear permission use, thin functionality, or a mismatch between what the listing promises and what the app does. We build to each store's current review and testing requirements, which we confirm at kickoff, and we submit your app for you.

React Native's own documentation now recommends starting with a framework rather than assembling one yourself, and Expo is that framework. It gives you routing, native APIs, a build pipeline and over-the-air updates without writing the plumbing. It is not a cage: Expo is open source, your code stays portable, and its paid cloud services are a convenience you can use or skip. There are still projects with unusual native constraints where a framework gets in the way, and in those cases we go without one - and we tell you that before the build rather than during it.

It is the rebuild of how React Native talks to the native side, and it is now the default. The Fabric renderer handles native views, TurboModules load native code only when it is actually used, and the JSI lets JavaScript call native code directly instead of passing serialised messages across an asynchronous bridge. That old bridge is what earned React Native its early reputation for jank at the boundary, and it is being retired from the framework itself. It matters commercially because a new app should be built on it, and an older app that has not migrated will eventually be unable to upgrade.

Yes, within the rules the stores publish. JavaScript-level bug fixes and content changes can be delivered over the air, through EAS Update or a self-hosted open-source server - note that the old hosted CodePush service was retired, so anyone still describing that as the standard path is out of date. What cannot go that route is anything that changes what the app fundamentally is or adds capability the reviewer never saw. We stay inside those limits, and we do not promise to route around store review.

It can, and offline is a design decision rather than a switch. We store data locally, decide what syncs and when, and write explicit rules for what happens when the same record changes in two places. The honest conversation is about which screens genuinely need to work without a connection. Most apps need far less offline than they ask for, and the few that truly need it - field tools, logistics, anything used underground or on a plane - need it designed from the first sprint rather than bolted on before launch.

We publish the numbers. A React Native app is priced on our two mobile tiers: the Starter App from $500 for a genuinely simple, single-purpose app of a few screens with static or light content and no complex backend, and the Mobile App Build from $15,000 for a full product with a backend and APIs, real-device QA, and submission to both stores. The $500 tier is not a full app and we will not sell it as one. If your project sits between the two, we scope one fixed price in a short paid discovery, in writing, before any build.

A Starter App is typically 2 to 4 weeks and a full Mobile App Build is typically 8 to 14 weeks, and the variable is almost never the React. It is the native surface: how many permissions, hardware features, third-party SDKs and offline behaviours the app touches, plus store review, which we plan around rather than promise a date for. We scope that native surface in discovery and agree a fixed price before the build, so the schedule reflects the app you actually asked for.

Often, and sometimes we will tell you not to. Moving a native or hybrid app onto one codebase is real work, and the honest first step is an audit: what the app actually does, which native surfaces it touches, and whether the savings from one codebase outweigh a rewrite. Migrating an existing React Native app onto the New Architecture is a different job with the same first step, because the usual blocker is a native dependency that has not migrated and is holding everything else back. We audit the dependency tree before quoting either.

That is the most common way apps rot, and it is preventable. It happens when a team adopts a native library that never moves to the New Architecture, so the whole app cannot upgrade past it, and eventually cannot support the current OS. We check that every native dependency is current before we adopt it, keep the dependency list deliberately short, and treat upgrades as planned work rather than a crisis. You own the code and the store accounts, so any competent team can pick it up. Optional care plans from $100 a month cover OS-version updates and store compliance, with no lock-in.

No, and we will not imply otherwise. React Native runs an official Partners programme listed in the framework's own repository - Meta, Microsoft, Expo, Shopify, Callstack, Software Mansion and a few others - and you join it by being referred by an existing partner and committing real engineering to React Native itself. It is a stewardship group for the people who maintain the framework, not a badge an app firm buys. We are not in it, and we are not core contributors either. Expo separately keeps a directory of trusted consultants, and we are not listed there. There is no agency-level React Native certification in existence, so nobody selling you React Native holds one. The Apple Developer and Google Play accounts are paid memberships needed to publish, not credentials - we register them in your name and submit your app for you.

No. React Native renders real native iOS and Android views, and a website cannot be one. This site is a static Next.js and React build that renders to the browser's DOM, so there is no React Native in its runtime or its build. We will not pretend otherwise. Two separate things are true: the interface you are reading is a live React 19 build you can inspect on our React page, which proves we ship real React on the web and nothing more, and a React Native app is written in that same component, hook and state model, which is a property of the technology rather than a claim about us. We are a growing mobile practice, and we won't dress a website up as app proof.