Question 1

When is React Native the wrong choice?

Accepted Answer

Three cases. First, the product relies on heavy graphics, custom animations and pixel-perfect UI: Flutter, with its own rendering engine, wins there. Second, resource-heavy scenarios (AR, video processing, 3D): part of the app will have to be native, and sometimes it's more honest to go straight to Swift/Kotlin. Third, if you have no React web app and no JS team, React Native's main economic argument doesn't apply, and the choice comes down to your team's preference. We'll walk you through the trade-offs point by point, including the honest limits of both frameworks.

Question 2

How much does a React Native app cost?

Accepted Answer

It's a ladder, not a single price: a clickable prototype is free and takes 5 days, before any contract. A React Native MVP core published in both stores starts at $9,900 and takes 6–8 weeks. A full app with payments, push notifications and offline mode runs $35–90K over 3–5 months. If you already have a React web app, 50–70% of the logic is reused, which takes 20–30% off the numbers above. You get an exact estimate 3–5 days after discovery, fixed in the contract.

Question 3

What happens to our app if React Native stops being supported?

Accepted Answer

React Native is open source under the MIT license and powers mobile products at Meta, Microsoft (Office, Teams) and Shopify: the stack has too large a corporate base to disappear without warning. But you're covered without any forecasts: the code, repository and store accounts are yours from the first stage, and the business logic and types live separately from the UI. Whatever happens, you rewrite the presentation layer, not the whole product.

Question 4

We don't have our own team. Who will run the app after launch?

Accepted Answer

Three options, and we'll tell you honestly which one fits. One: we run it, with support from $2,900/month and the SLA and development hours written into the contract. Two: you hire a React developer, who joins the project without retraining; it's the widest hiring market in mobile development. Three: we hand it over to another vendor with documentation, an architecture diagram and onboarding, which is part of the project and costs nothing extra.

Question 5

Is React Native really slower than native apps?

Accepted Answer

With the new architecture (Fabric + TurboModules + Hermes), the performance gap is under 5%. Shopify, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Bloomberg and parts of Instagram run React Native in production for tens of millions of users. For 95% of business tasks, performance is identical to native. For resource-heavy scenarios (3D, AR), we plug in native modules.

Question 6

Can we reuse code from our React web app?

Accepted Answer

Yes, that's the key advantage. Business logic, API clients, state management, validation, utilities and TypeScript types are all reused. In a monorepo (Nx/Turborepo), shared code makes up 50–70%. UI components are written separately, but with the same props.

Question 7

What are OTA updates and why do you need them?

Accepted Answer

OTA (over-the-air) means updating the JavaScript code without a new store release. You fix a bug and users get the fix in 5 minutes, not 3 days. It works through Expo Updates (EAS Update); for bare projects there's a community version of CodePush. The limitation: only the JS layer changes, and native code still goes through the store. For most updates that's enough.

React Native App Development

Situations where we help

You have a React team but no mobile developers

Web and mobile mean double the work on every feature

The bug got fixed on iOS and forgotten on Android

An urgent fix waits 3 days for store review

Let's estimate the budget for your task

Features and benefits

Fabric + TurboModules: native speed

50–70% of the code shared with your React web app

OTA via EAS Update: fixes in minutes

Expo: push, updates and builds out of the box

1M+ npm packages for any task

Jest and Detox: unit and E2E tests on devices

How we work

Discovery and a free prototype: 5 days

React Native development: 4–6 weeks

Integrations and optimization: 2–3 weeks

QA and store release: 1–2 weeks

Support and OTA updates: ongoing

What it costs

React Native: a mobile app built with your JS stack

Real results

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