One codebase, two stores, and a genuinely native feel.

A real native app. React Native renders actual platform UI components — a UIView on iOS, a View on Android — driven by JavaScript. That is a fundamentally different thing from a hybrid wrapper, which loads a web page inside an embedded browser. The distinction is visible: scrolling momentum, keyboard behaviour, navigation gestures, and text selection all come from the operating system rather than being imitated in CSS. Your app is compiled into a standard binary and submitted to the stores like any other native app.

Expo, unless there is a specific reason not to. Modern Expo is no longer the restricted sandbox it was years ago — it supports custom native code through development builds, so choosing it no longer means giving up native modules. What you get in return is managed builds, over-the-air updates, and a dramatically simpler upgrade path, which is where bare React Native projects usually decay. The cases that still argue for bare are an unusual native dependency that resists integration, or an existing native app that React Native is being added into. We tell you which case yours is before starting, not after.

Partly, and it is worth being precise about which parts. Business logic, validation rules, API clients, and TypeScript types share cleanly and are where most of the benefit is. UI components largely do not — React Native uses its own primitives rather than HTML elements, so a web component does not simply run on mobile. Teams that try to share the UI layer usually end up with something that feels wrong on all three platforms. We share the logic, keep the interfaces native to each platform, and you get consistency where it matters without the compromise where it does not.

We write the native module. React Native is designed to be extended — a bridge into Swift or Kotlin is a normal part of the framework rather than an escape hatch, and most requirements that sound exotic already have a maintained community package. Bluetooth peripherals, health data, custom camera pipelines, and background location are all routinely done this way. If something genuinely cannot be built well in React Native, we say so during scoping and recommend the alternative, which is a better outcome than discovering it halfway through a build.

For anything in the JavaScript layer, yes. Over-the-air updates let a fix reach users directly, usually within minutes, which covers the large majority of bugs — logic errors, layout problems, copy changes, API adjustments. Changes to native code, permissions, or app metadata still require a store release, and store policy requires that over-the-air updates do not substantially change what the app does. Set up correctly, this is the single biggest operational advantage React Native has over fully native development.