Frameworks

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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Where it fits
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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.

Common in Mobile apps, shared web/mobile codebases
Key tools Expo, React Navigation, Hermes
Architecture New Architecture with Fabric renderer
Typical pattern Cross-platform mobile, code sharing with web
  • Cross-Platform Mobile
  • Shared Web/Mobile Codebases
  • Consumer Apps
  • Startups
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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
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Why Adaca for React Native?

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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.

How is React Native work priced?

Either as a fixed cost for an initial outcome, such as a first release or a defined migration, or as a monthly rate for the team once later phases are under way. We do not publish a figure for a build, because the scale is set by the number of features, platforms, user groups and users, and projects have run from four weeks to several months. The How We Charge page sets out both models, milestone billing and the notice period.

What does the team for React Native work look like?

Typically one full-time engineer on the build, with two part-time roles alongside: one running the project and one working with you on priorities and technical decisions. Teams are shaped around the system rather than around one technology, so React Native work draws in the neighbouring stack when it needs to. Delivery starts under Australian leadership, with the engineering in our Manila delivery centre.

How quickly can React Native work start?

Discovery establishes the scope, systems involved and delivery requirements. We agree the implementation plan and timing after that work, before implementation begins.