Top Three Apps Developed with React Native
React Native has been around for some time now. This unique framework made it entirely possible to develop native Android and iOS applications while also starting an unexpected war between native (Swift/Kotlin) and React Native developers.
For merchants and entrepreneurs, this creates an interesting opportunity for uniting the development teams, improving their speed, and lowering the costs of development. In the very beginning, we saw that React Native was used mostly by startups to build their MVPs or simple one-screen applications. However, as the time has passed, we can now see more mature and robust applications that were developed using React Native.
Until now, React Native has got more than 1,400 contributors.
With the ever-rising fame of React Native in development circles, we can also see a number of amazing and popular apps in the app stores, all of which are built on this very technology. From startups to large enterprises, React Native is their first choice for mobile app development. Here are three of the most popular and comprehensive applications built using React Native.
Facebook & React Native
React Native started as Facebook’s pet project, developed in response to the company’s specific needs.
They wanted to bring to mobile two of the most major advantages of web development:
- quick iterations
- having one unified team develop the whole application
That is how React Native came to life and used in mobile app development for both iOS and Android apps.
Why React Native?
Originally, React Native was only developed to support iOS.
However, with its support of the Android operating system, it can now provide mobile UIs for both platforms.
Facebook used React Native to develop its Ads Manager app and create both an iOS and an Android version for the application. Both the versions were designed and created by the same team.
The Results
- Facebook saw a major performance improvement in both the speed and the UI of the applications. The ‘Events Dashboard’ startup was now two times faster.
- A majority of these advances were done at the framework level, which in turn determines how the React Native app will automatically benefit when transferring to the latest version.
Instagram & React Native
Takin cues from Facebook, Instagram took it upon itself to integrate React Native into their existing native app.
They started with the simplest view you can imagine – the Push Notification view, which was simply implemented as the WebView. The view did not need building a navigation infrastructure, as the UI was really quite simple.
The Results
- The development team at Instagram faced a few problems initially as they started, but they improved the development velocity by a lot.
- 85% to 99% of the code was now shared between Android and iOS apps, making transition extremely easy.
- This resulted in the team being able to deliver the application much faster than they would have with a native solution.
Wix & React Native
Started in the year 2006, Wix is a digital company that provides hosting and website design services all-round.
With Wix, users can design and build their sites in HTML5/CSS, as well as mobile websites, using simple drag and drop utilities.
Two of the most popular features of Wix are that developers can easily develop and make their own web applications that they can market to other users without knowing any coding to create a website.
Why React Native?
There are a number of amazing navigation options available in React Native applications like:
- react-native-router-flux
- react-navigation
- Airbnb-native-navigation
The company chose not to settle for any of these as they needed extremely configurable navigation and screen options along with a codebase that could be properly maintained and updated.
This is why they developed their own customized wix-react-native-navigation.
The Results
While native app development is usually considered inefficient, has lower productivity, and takes a longer time to deploy, React Native provided Wix the speed and agility of web app development in the hybrid space, making dynamic results possible.
