React Native Development

Why React Native

React Native is Meta's open-source framework for building truly native mobile applications using JavaScript and TypeScript. Unlike hybrid approaches that wrap a web view, React Native compiles to real native UI components on both iOS and Android, delivering the look, feel, and performance that users expect from a platform-native app.

The framework's greatest strength is its shared codebase model. A single team writing TypeScript can ship to both the App Store and Google Play from the same repository, often sharing 85-95% of their code between platforms. This dramatically reduces development time, eliminates the drift that plagues teams maintaining separate iOS and Android codebases, and cuts ongoing maintenance costs roughly in half.

React Native also benefits from one of the largest developer ecosystems in mobile. Backed by Meta and used in production by companies like Shopify, Discord, Bloomberg, and Microsoft, it has a mature package ecosystem, strong community support, and a steady cadence of improvements. If your team already works with React on the web, adopting React Native means leveraging existing skills, shared tooling, and familiar patterns rather than hiring an entirely new mobile team.

What We Build

We use React Native to deliver a wide range of mobile applications, each tailored to the specific demands of the product and its users. Our experience spans consumer-facing apps, internal enterprise tools, investor-ready MVPs, and complex products that need to share logic with an existing React web application.

Our React Native Expertise

We don't just use React Native. We understand it at a level that allows us to push the framework beyond its defaults and deliver apps that feel indistinguishable from fully native builds. Our team has deep experience across the entire React Native stack:

• TypeScript-first architecture — every project starts with strict TypeScript for type safety, better refactoring, and self-documenting code that scales with your team
• State management — we choose the right tool for the problem, whether that's Redux Toolkit for complex global state, Zustand for lightweight stores, or React Query for server-state synchronisation
• React Navigation — deep expertise in stack, tab, and drawer navigators with deep linking, authentication flows, and shared-element transitions
• Native modules — when the JavaScript bridge isn't enough, we write custom native modules in Swift and Kotlin to access platform-specific APIs, sensors, and hardware features
• Hermes engine — we configure and optimise for Hermes, Meta's JavaScript engine purpose-built for React Native, achieving faster startup times, lower memory usage, and smaller bundle sizes
• Reanimated & Gesture Handler — fluid, 60fps animations and gesture-driven interactions that run on the native UI thread, not the JavaScript thread, for buttery-smooth user experiences
• Testing & quality — Jest for unit tests, React Native Testing Library for component tests, Detox for end-to-end testing, and comprehensive CI pipelines that catch regressions before they ship

When React Native Makes Sense

React Native is an excellent choice for many mobile projects, but it's not the right tool for every problem. We'll always give you an honest assessment of whether it's the best fit for your specific needs, and recommend native development when the project demands it.

React Native is ideal when your team already has React or JavaScript expertise and you want to leverage those skills for mobile. It excels in apps with significant shared business logic between platforms, products where time-to-market is a competitive advantage, and companies that want a unified codebase across web and mobile. If your app is primarily data-driven with standard UI patterns — feeds, forms, dashboards, messaging, e-commerce flows — React Native will deliver native quality with substantially less engineering overhead.

Native is still preferred for apps that depend heavily on GPU-intensive rendering, real-time camera processing, advanced AR experiences, or deep integration with platform-specific frameworks like ARKit, Metal, or CameraX. High-frequency sensor processing, complex audio/video editing, and games that push the hardware to its limits are better served by Swift and Kotlin. When we encounter these requirements within a React Native project, we don't compromise — we bridge to native.

How We Bridge to Native

One of the most common concerns with cross-platform development is losing access to platform-specific capabilities. With our approach, that concern disappears. When a feature requires hardware-level access — advanced camera controls, biometric authentication, Bluetooth peripherals, on-device ML inference, or custom sensor processing — we write native modules in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android, then expose them to the React Native layer through a clean, typed bridge.

This hybrid architecture gives you the best of both worlds: the development speed and code sharing of React Native for your core application, with the full power of the native platform wherever it's needed. We've used this approach to integrate Core ML models, custom camera pipelines, NFC readers, and hardware-accelerated image processing into React Native apps without any compromise on performance or capability.

The result is an app that users can't tell apart from a fully native build, built in a fraction of the time and maintained by a single team.

Our Web + Mobile Advantage

Most React Native agencies only build mobile. We build React web applications too, and that makes a material difference to the quality and efficiency of your project. When your product spans web and mobile, we architect a shared TypeScript monorepo from the start — shared types, shared API clients, shared validation, shared business logic.

This means your mobile app and web app are always in sync. A change to your data model propagates to both platforms. A bug fix in a calculation applies everywhere. Your API contract is enforced by the same TypeScript types that power both frontends. No drift, no duplication, no "the mobile app does it differently" surprises.

For companies building a React web dashboard alongside a React Native mobile app — a pattern we see in SaaS, fintech, logistics, and healthcare — this shared-code approach can reduce total development effort by 30-40% compared to treating web and mobile as separate projects.

Enterprise-Grade Features

We build React Native apps that are ready for enterprise deployment from day one. Every project includes the infrastructure and integrations that production apps demand:

• Offline storage & sync — local SQLite or WatermelonDB databases with conflict resolution and background sync, so your app works reliably in low-connectivity environments
• Push notifications — Firebase Cloud Messaging and APNs integration with rich notifications, deep link handling, and notification channels for Android
• Deep linking & universal links — seamless transitions from emails, web, and other apps directly into the correct screen in your mobile app, with deferred deep linking for new installs
• Analytics & crash reporting — Firebase Analytics, Sentry crash reporting, and custom event tracking so you have full visibility into how users interact with your app and where issues occur
• CI/CD pipelines — automated builds, testing, and deployment using Fastlane, GitHub Actions, and App Store Connect / Google Play Console APIs, so every merge to main produces a testable build
• Security — certificate pinning, encrypted local storage, biometric authentication, and secure keychain/keystore access to meet enterprise and regulatory requirements
• Accessibility — full VoiceOver and TalkBack support, dynamic type scaling, and WCAG-compliant contrast ratios, because enterprise apps must be usable by everyone