Hire React Native developers
React Native shares most of a codebase across iOS and Android, which is a genuine saving. What it does not share is everything that touches the platform — and knowing where that line falls is the difference between a saving and a slow rewrite.
Where cross-platform stops paying
Screens, navigation and business logic share well. Anything touching hardware or platform services — background processing, push notification behaviour, deep camera or Bluetooth work, platform-specific permissions — needs native code on both sides, written twice, in two languages.
The failure mode is a project that assumed one codebase, then discovered a third of it has to be native anyway. That is a scoping question, and it is answerable at the start rather than discovered in month four.
There is a third option, and sometimes it wins
Where an application is mostly a web product already, wrapping it — with Capacitor or similar — delivers store presence and device APIs without a second codebase at all. It gives up native feel in exchange for one thing to maintain, which is the right trade more often than the cross-platform debate usually admits.
RealVision has been through all three: native iOS and Android to begin with, React Native as the surface area grew, and now a Capacitor wrapper around the web application. That progression was driven by what the product needed at each stage rather than by a framework preference — and it is why we treat this as a decision to revisit rather than settle once.
Whichever route you take, app review, signing and staged rollout are engineering work with their own timelines, and they do not compress.
Products needing iOS and Android where most functionality is shared
Teams with React experience who want to reuse it on mobile
Companies funding one mobile team rather than two
Apps whose value is in heavy device or hardware integration — go native, and we will say so
A single-platform product where cross-platform buys nothing but indirection
3 projects built with it
Drawn from the technology each project actually used, so this list cannot include work that did not.
Financial Media and Investment Education
RealVision
A cross-platform financial streaming service delivering expert analysis across web, mobile, iPad and TV.
- 40%
- Increase in user engagement through dynamic tools and content
- 200,000+
- Engaged members globally
- 4.5
- Average user satisfaction rating
Food Delivery
TocoPick
A full food delivery platform — customer app, rider app and vendor dashboard — built in house.
EdTech — 3D & VR Simulations
Impactall
The backend, admin dashboard and initial web and mobile app behind Impactall's Be Curious learning platform.
We do not publish rates, because scope decides them
A figure quoted before scope is understood is not a commitment either side can rely on. These are the things that actually move it.
Native surface
How much has to be written twice in platform code. The main cost driver.
Device support
Older devices and OS versions widen testing considerably.
Store requirements
Review, signing and release cycles are real timeline items.
Offline behaviour
Working offline and reconciling later is significantly more work than it appears.
NDA first, contract on frozen scope
We sign a mutual NDA before the first detailed conversation, not after — you should be able to describe what you are building without qualifying it.
The contract follows requirement freeze rather than preceding it. Once scope is agreed and written down, it is what the agreement is drawn against, which is what makes a fixed commitment meaningful in the first place.
What buyers usually ask
Something not covered here?
Ask directly — we would rather answer a specific question than publish a general one.
Contact us01
React Native or native?
Native when the product's value is in device integration or platform-specific behaviour. React Native when most of it is screens and logic. We will give you the honest answer for your case, including when it costs us the larger project.02
Can you add React Native to an existing native app?
Yes, incrementally. Whether it is worthwhile depends on how much of the remaining roadmap is shared.03
Do you handle store submission?
Yes, including signing, review and staged rollout.04
What about performance?
Fine for the large majority of products. Where a specific screen needs native performance, that screen goes native rather than the whole app.05
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit.
Services
Tell us what you're building
Describe the app and what it has to do on the device. We will tell you honestly whether cross-platform is the right call.
- NDA before we talk
- Reply within one business day
- No obligation