React Native · Expo
React Native app development, both stores.
One codebase, two platforms, no uncanny valley. Native modules where it counts, shared product surface everywhere else.
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01Scope
What React Native development covers.
A cross-platform build that does not feel like one.
- Expo and TypeScript foundation
- Typed end to end, EAS build and submit pipelines, and over-the-air updates for everything that does not need a review.
- Native modules where required
- Swift and Kotlin bridges for camera, Bluetooth, background work and SDKs that have no usable JavaScript surface.
- Platform-correct interface
- Navigation, gestures and typography that follow each platform rather than splitting the difference and satisfying neither.
02Trade-offs
Where React Native pays, and where it costs.
We reach for it deliberately, not reflexively.
- Pays: two platforms, one budget
- Content, commerce, booking, dashboards and internal tools — most of the screen is lists, forms and navigation.
- Costs: heavy device integration
- Continuous sensors, complex animation, widgets, watch apps and on-device ML end up native anyway. Budget for it or go native from the start.
03FAQ
React Native development: common questions.
React Native or native Swift and Kotlin?
React Native when the interface is not the differentiator and you need both stores on one budget. Native when the product lives on gestures, animation, background work or on-device intelligence. We put the reasoning in the written scope so the decision is auditable later.
Do you use Expo?
Yes, by default. Expo's managed workflow with EAS covers builds, submissions and over-the-air updates. We eject to bare workflow only when a required native dependency forces it.
Can you take over an existing React Native app?
Yes. Version upgrades, New Architecture migration, dependency untangling and performance work are common starting points.
04Related
Related capabilities.
Most engagements touch more than one of these.
Android app development
Modern Android with Jetpack Compose, Material 3 and an architecture that survives its second year and its fourth OS version.
iOS app development
Swift and SwiftUI, current-generation Apple frameworks, and a release you own end to end. No wrappers, no WebView shortcuts.
MVP development
One platform, one sharp idea, in front of real users. Scoped hard, built properly, and instrumented well enough to learn something.
Tell us what you're building.
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