How do Cross-Platform Apps- React Native benefit your business?

The revolutionary trend change is transforming the mobile app industry at a rapid rate. The main trigger factor for it is the increasing number of smartphones launched and also an increasing number of users using these. As the number of smartphones and smartphone usage are rising, the demand for innovative and high advanced apps is also increasing. In order to survive in such a competition, the latest apps should be capable of being compatible on various platforms, in other words, they need to be cross-platform. Different devices are having devices platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows, cross-platform is the one which can perform best on any of the platforms, that’s what makes it more demanding.

For writing cross-platform apps, Facebook has introduced React Native, which is a JavaScript Framework. At present, React Native is running both on iOS and Android which are most commonly used OS, but efforts are being put on expanding it. There are so many apps built using this very popular reactive native, some of them are Bloomberg, Gyroscope, Facebook Ads Manager, Airbnb, Myntra, UberEats. Some of the attractive features of the reactive native are as follows:

• Redux

This is one of the most important benefits of reactive native, which helps the developer to give a global state for the app. It makes sense for using redux that offers fetching and management easy. This global state which is defined by redux works in the same way in both iOS and Android, helping in saving a lot of effort and time.

• Native

Native apps are the one which has the languages that support platforms. For instance, the native iOS apps required Objective –C language, whereas native android requires Jave language. The best feature of this reacts native is that its components are independent, unlike the other approaches. The mobile UI’s developed by reactive native supports both iOS and Android.

• Components

Components are nothing but they are the one which makes the complex UI into smaller parts. The related elements can be wrapped into a single component. And these components can be used in the app at any place by just importing or exporting them. This makes it possible that the code can be reused many times, whenever it is required.

• Web developers using reactive native

React native offers ease for the web developers in offering an easy transition from web to a mobile app. This is because the react native is based on JavaScript framework with the help of which mobile app can be built easily. So, React Native Web Developers has got an advantage.

• Live to reload

While developing a mobile app, it would be annoying to re-deploy or re-build for just previewing the one-line UI change. This problem can be solved by using react native which offers live reloading and hot reloading. Live reloading will help in refreshing the entire app when any changes are made, and hot reloading helps in refreshing the file that the recently changed. This helps in saving a lot of time.

-Time Factor

React native makes it possible that codes can be shared between iOS and Android. This feature helps the developers to develop the app for both the platforms simultaneously. This has resulted in saving time by about 30%.

• Feel and look

As the developers can use react native to both the operating systems, the look and feel of the app is one and the same in both the OS.

• Challenges

Owing to the various benefits mentioned above, React native is one of the powerful frameworks. Cross-platform mobile application development is happening at a faster rate. Since it is newly released technology, still it may take time for working on it. For normal apps, developed using reactive native, it is time and cost effective, but it may not be the same situation with respect to complex applications. Being still in the budding phase, time may solve the existing challenges of react native.

Bottom-line:

No doubt, the reactive native is the future of cross platforms. The growth and popularity of the react native are occurring at a faster rate. In the near future, lot many advancements in the framework can be seen for sure.