React Native
React's component model for mobile. Build iOS and Android apps that share code and libraries with your React web application.
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React skills, mobile results
React Native builds iOS and Android applications with the component model, language and libraries of React on the web. Components are written in TypeScript and render to native platform views, so the interface users touch is made of the platform's own controls.
The current architecture connects JavaScript and native code directly through JSI, with the Fabric renderer and the Hermes engine replacing the asynchronous bridge earlier versions relied on. Expo has matured into the default toolchain, covering builds, distribution and over-the-air updates without hand-maintained native projects.
React Native fits organisations that already run React on the web, because skills, component patterns and shared packages carry across and one team can own both surfaces. It is the wrong choice when no React investment exists and the design is fully custom on both platforms: Flutter's single rendering pipeline suits that better. An app built tightly around platform APIs is better written natively in Swift or Kotlin.
- Cross-Platform Mobile
- Shared Web/Mobile Codebases
- Consumer Apps
- Startups
Our React Native capabilities
Cross-platform mobile apps
We build iOS and Android applications from one TypeScript codebase, sharing business logic, state and API clients outright while screens adapt where platform conventions differ. Expo carries the build and release workflow on most projects, with bare React Native where native requirements demand it.
- iOS
- Android
- Expo
Code sharing strategy
In a monorepo, the mobile application and the React web application consume the same shared packages: domain types, validation, API clients and state stores. We draw the sharing line deliberately, keeping view components platform-appropriate while everything beneath them is written once and typed end to end.
- Shared types
- Monorepo
- React web
Native module integration
Where a capability does not exist in the ecosystem, we write it as a Turbo Module: Swift or Kotlin on the native side, exposed to TypeScript through JSI with bindings generated by codegen. Vendor SDKs that ship native-only are wrapped the same way and consumed like any other typed module.
- Native modules
- Turbo Modules
- JSI
Why Adaca for React Native?
React ecosystem leverage
Use existing React skills and libraries across web and mobile for team efficiency.
Native performance
Optimised rendering with the New Architecture, Fabric renderer, and Hermes engine.
Navigation expertise
Complex flows with React Navigation, deep linking, and platform-specific patterns.
Expo & bare workflows
Both Expo managed workflow and bare React Native for maximum flexibility.
Over-the-air updates
Push updates with EAS Update without app store review delays.
App store experience
Publishing and maintaining apps on both App Store and Google Play.
How We Staff It
React Native roles are usually filled by engineers who move between React web and mobile work, because the skills are the same until the native boundary. Where an app carries significant native surface, we add an engineer with Swift or Kotlin depth rather than stretching one person across web and both native platforms. Engineers work to your working day.
Common Questions
Does an existing React web team make React Native the default choice over Flutter?
Usually, yes. React Native reuses the component model, the language, the state libraries and, in a monorepo, code itself, so the team you already have becomes productive on mobile without adopting a second stack. Hiring, review practices and tooling stay unified across web and mobile.
The main exception is an interface drawn entirely from a custom design language, which the Flutter page addresses from its side. For everything else, continuity with the web team usually decides it.
Is React Native performance good enough for a consumer app?
For most consumer apps, yes. Scrolling, gestures and transitions execute as native code once rendered, and Hermes precompiles JavaScript to bytecode so startup does not pay a parsing cost. Built with the standard navigation and list libraries, an app holds platform frame rates.
The ceiling is sustained computation: real-time graphics, heavy image processing, games. Work of that kind moves into native code reached through JSI, or argues for a natively built app in Swift or Kotlin.
How does React Native fare under AI-assisted development?
On the TypeScript side, very well. The public corpus that makes coding agents strong in React carries over directly: components, hooks, state and tests follow patterns the models have seen at web scale, and the TypeScript compiler with a Jest suite verifies output quickly.
The native boundary is where that stops. Turbo Modules, build configuration and platform-specific behaviour are thinly represented in public code, so agent output there needs review from an engineer who knows the native side. The measured results of our AI-augmented delivery flow are on the Technology page.
Can the same Adaca team cover our web app and the mobile app?
Yes. One pool covers our React web and React Native work, so a single engagement can span both surfaces rather than splitting into two teams.
Shortlists usually arrive within 48 hours of a brief, engagements start at one engineer, and terms run three, six, nine or twelve months, agreed at the outset.