The new age of technology is witnessing the burgeoning usage of smartphones worldwide. If we take a closer look at the data, there are over 2.87 billion smartphone users & 1.26 billion tablet users globally. One can easily foresee how bright the future of the mobile application industry is. With high potential, the industry also holds great competition. To ace in the market & be profitable, one has to be dynamic and geared with the latest technology unequivocally.
Facebook’s invention React Native, is an open-source mobile application development framework that is used for iOS, Android, and Web applications. The technology came into existence in 2013, and in just a couple of years, it was ranked the fastest-growing open-source platform with over 30,000 stars on GitHub. Also a year later, Facebook and Microsoft established a partnership, thereby adding Windows support to the React Native platform.
Multiple business giants use this modern-day technology, including Uber eats, Myntra, Airbnb, Instagram, Bloomberg, Facebook Messenger, Discord, etc. What makes this technology stand apart is the feature to share codes between two different operating systems to develop an application without compromising the performance and being cost-effective at the same time.
React native is written using Javascript, and it is known as a hybrid framework. This quality of React Native separates it from conventional apps written in Native languages such as Java or Kotin for Android apps and swift or objective – C for apps on iOS. Using a hybrid app technology allows the developer to write code once that can run on both Android and iOS devices. While most hybrid frameworks such as Ionic, Cordova, Phonegap entirely rely upon web view to achieve cross-compatible capabilities, React Native works differently. Instead of using a web view, React operates through a system that allows it to render Native components from base Javascript code.
As React Native runs on both Android and iOS, it allows both target platforms to receive an outcome from a single team of developers and codebase, which results in quicker and easier development and testing of the app.