React Native Development
React Native Development Agency
We've been shipping production React Native apps since 2018. One codebase, iOS and Android, built by a UK team that sticks around to maintain what it launches.
Get a project quote →Why we build with React Native
One team, one codebase, two platforms: that was always the pitch, and what's changed is that the framework has grown up. The New Architecture got rid of the bridge everyone used to complain about, Expo made builds and over-the-air updates painless, and the library ecosystem now covers most of what a business app needs without anyone writing native code.
The bigger win shows up in year two, when every fix and every new feature lands on both platforms at once, from one team, tested once.
When it's the wrong tool
React Native isn't the answer for graphics-heavy games, for apps built around a bleeding-edge platform API, or for products whose whole value is some deeply custom native interaction. If that's your project, you'll hear it on the first call.
For everything else, from accounts and content through to payments, notifications, maps and offline data, it's the right call, and we can point you at shipped apps to back that up.
Native modules where you need them
Cross-platform doesn't have to mean lowest common denominator. When something needs the platform directly, we write the native module in Swift or Kotlin and expose it to the shared codebase. Background location, Bluetooth hardware, biometric auth, a vendor SDK nobody's bridged yet.
The app feels native to whoever's using it, and your team still only maintains one codebase.
Taking on someone else's app
A lot of our work starts with an inherited codebase. It might be four major versions behind, or the original developer may have left, or it built fine last year and won't build at all now. We audit it and tell you whether to upgrade or start again, and why.
Version upgrades, dependency conflicts, New Architecture migration and store compliance fixes are all routine work for us.
How a project runs
Audit or scope
New build, we scope it. Existing app, we audit it and tell you what we found.
Foundations
TypeScript, navigation, state, CI/CD and release pipelines, before any feature work.
Sprints
Two-week cycles, each ending with a build you can install and use.
Release & maintain
Store submission, over-the-air updates, monitoring, version upgrades.
The technology we build on
Core
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- React Navigation
Native modules
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Vendor SDK bridging
- New Architecture / Fabric
Delivery
- EAS Build
- Over-the-air updates
- Automated store submission
- Crash & performance monitoring
Frequently asked questions
Is React Native still a good choice in 2026?
Yes, more than when we started with it in 2018. The New Architecture removed the old bridge bottleneck, Expo made builds and over-the-air updates straightforward, and the ecosystem covers nearly everything a business app needs. It's still the default for cross-platform work.
Will a React Native app feel slower than a native one?
In a normal business app, users can't tell the difference. If one particular screen does need native performance, we write that bit as a native module and leave the rest shared, so you only pay the native cost where it buys you something.
Can you take over an app another agency built?
Often, yes. We start with an audit covering code quality, framework and dependency versions, store compliance and security. Then you get a straight recommendation to upgrade the existing codebase or start again, along with the reasoning behind it rather than just the verdict.
Do you work with Expo or bare React Native?
Both, though Expo is our default. The build, update and submission tooling saves real time, and development builds mean native modules are no longer a reason to eject. If a project genuinely needs a bare workflow, we'll run that instead.
Can you add a web version from the same codebase?
Sometimes. React Native for Web can share a fair amount of logic. More often we'd suggest a purpose-built web front end sharing the same API and business rules, because it gives a better result at both ends.
Need React Native developers?
New build or an app you've inherited, tell us where you are and we'll come back with an assessment and a plan.
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