Software Catalyst
React Native App Development
Create high-performance native Android apps that are optimized for a wide range of devices, ensuring a superior user experience and broad market reach.
38%
As of 2023, React Native is used by over 38% of developers globally for cross-platform mobile app development, making it one of the most popular frameworks for building apps that work seamlessly across both iOS and Android (Statista).
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Overview
React Native is a popular framework developed by Facebook that allows developers to build mobile applications using JavaScript and React. With React Native, you can create apps that work seamlessly across both iOS and Android platforms without having to maintain separate codebases.
Businesses need React Native app development to streamline their mobile app development processes, reduce costs, and reach a larger audience on both major mobile platforms—iOS and Android. By using React Native, businesses can maintain a single codebase while delivering high-quality user experiences on multiple platforms.
- Higher development costs due to the need for separate iOS and Android teams
- Increased time-to-market because of parallel development for each platform
- Difficulty maintaining consistent user experiences across iOS and Android
- Increased maintenance costs for managing two separate codebases
- Slower iteration cycles for updates and new features
- Reduced flexibility in responding to market needs quickly
Key Benefits
Our Model
We start by understanding your business goals, target audience, and app requirements to create a strategic roadmap for your React Native app development project.
Our UX/UI design team creates intuitive, user-centric app interfaces, ensuring a seamless experience across both iOS and Android platforms.
We develop your app using React Native’s framework, ensuring optimal performance and consistency across devices.
We rigorously test your app across multiple devices, operating systems, and scenarios to ensure a smooth, bug-free experience.
We handle the app submission process for both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, ensuring compliance with platform guidelines.
After the app is launched, we provide continuous support and updates to keep your app running smoothly and evolving with market trends.
Myths
React Native apps offer near-native performance, with many high-traffic apps like Instagram and Facebook built on it (Medium).
React Native provides modules to access native device features like the camera, GPS, and push notifications (React Native Docs).
With libraries like Reanimated and Gesture Handler, React Native can handle even complex animations seamlessly (GitHub).
In most cases, the same code works for both platforms, with minor adjustments for platform-specific requirements (Stack Overflow).
Many complex apps, including Facebook and Skype, are built using React Native, showcasing its robustness and scalability (The Verge).
With proper security protocols, React Native can be used to build secure, enterprise-level apps (InfoWorld).
With a single codebase, maintenance is actually easier and more efficient compared to native apps (Forbes).
React Native apps offer comparable performance to native apps, especially for general use-cases (Google Developers).
React Native has a large and active community, providing robust libraries, plugins, and support (React Native Community).
React Native is one of the most popular frameworks today and is backed by major companies, ensuring its long-term viability (Stack Overflow).
FAQs
Android native apps are developed using Java or Kotlin.
React Native uses a single codebase for both platforms, whereas native development requires separate codebases for iOS and Android.
Yes, React Native apps can be deployed on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Since you only need to build one codebase for both platforms, development is faster, reducing the time needed to launch the app.
While React Native is highly versatile, certain platform-specific features might require custom native code for full optimization.
React Native apps offer nearly native performance and can be optimized further using native modules where needed.
Yes, React Native supports a wide range of third-party plugins for enhanced functionality.
Costs vary depending on the app’s complexity but tend to be lower than developing two separate native apps.
Developers typically use JavaScript, React, Expo, and Redux for building React Native apps.
Yes, it is possible to migrate an existing app to React Native, allowing you to benefit from a single codebase going forward.
Resources
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For financial services companies, taking action on employee experience will elevate their customer experience too, 2021
[3]Trend Micro, Attacks from All Angles: 2021 Midyear Security Roundup, September 2021