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Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

82 points by Elect2 8y ago

I know some apps that are partly using RN or Flutter. But I'm interested to know what app can be made fully by RN or Flutter.

m_ke 8y ago
Our app (Bitesnap) is made with RN. Another popular one is Gyroscope. - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitesnap-photo-food-journal/id1108291490?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitesnap-photo-food-journal/... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.bite.biteapp&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.bite.biteap... - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gyroscope-health/id1104085053?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gyroscope-health/id110408505... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyroscope.gyroscope&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyroscope....
- andrewingram 8y ago
  Gyroscope is one of those apps that's extremely aesthetically pleasing, but I'm always reluctant to use as an example of React Native. Mainly because none of the interactions feel "right". It's always reminded me of those highly polished Flash websites that look amazing, but something always seems off when you use them. From the screenshots Bitesnap looks nice, but I can't seem to download it in the UK.
  - flanbiscuit 8y ago
    curious what you mean by not feeling right or seeming off? Those are very vague reasons. I'm not a user of this app, nor a developer.
    - andrewingram 8y ago
      To be honest, it's a vague feeling. Similar to the uncanny valley of special effects in movies. There's a lot of UI elements that have the appearance of (heavily-stylised) native ones, but not the behaviour. You can't swipe back on screen transitions, tapping the selected tab icon doesn't scroll the screen to top, everything feels almost imperceptibly sluggish. Lots of little things like these.
aplummer 8y ago
I would like to know about Xamarin too if anyone has them. Particularly looking for high fidelity creative / UX
- opayen 8y ago
  Microsoft News is built with Xamarin (source: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384 https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384) - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.amp.apps.bingnews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.... - iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?m...
- thijser 8y ago
  Not exclusive use, but here are some apps that contain the Xamarin code: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/xamarin/xamarin https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/xamarin/xam...
indy 8y ago
Hamilton was built with flutter. https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-months-with-flutter-reaches-1m-installs-f37f81856be4 https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-...
benjaminasmith 8y ago
Not exactly "popular" (only 10k downloads), but my Pathfinder spell tracking app is built 100% Flutter: https://www.spelltrackerapp.com/ https://www.spelltrackerapp.com/
dangelov 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but it's super interesting to see Flutter (which seems to be by Google), use Visual Studio Code (by Microsoft) and an iPhone X simulator (by Apple) as their main demo. I guess it gets the point across.
- slow_donkey 8y ago
  I'm actually really happy they've invested in a vscode plugin. The Android story of being forced to use Android Studio was not fun, even considering how good Intellij is
  - bybjorn 8y ago
    Have you tried IntelliJ IDEA? It’s great for Flutter development.
marcocot 8y ago
Maybe not "popular" but this is made entirely in RN: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uefa.euro2016 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uefa.euro2... https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/uefa-european-qualifiers/id1061115611?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/uefa-european-qualifiers/id1...
jqbx_jason 8y ago
Same preface (not exactly popular...yet) but the JQBX mobile apps: https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm are built with RN. The only "native" parts are a bridge for playing audio but I'm not sure if that's what you meant by "fully" RN or not.
mikece 8y ago
Is there a larger question about how many cross-platform, non-hybrid applications are out there and which is the best stack for doing likewise? The field includes: Flutter, NativeScript, React Native, Ruby Motion, Xamarin, KikApp (PHP), PyMob and Kivy (python), RubyMotion (Ruby)... and of course C++.
- joshstrange 8y ago
  Also Cordova/Ionic
  - mikece 8y ago
    That would be hybrid but I gather from the question that there's a goal to avoid that stack.
chirag04 8y ago
May not be as popular anymore but Lrn app was built with RN and was featured by Apple on the home page in 110+ countries. Still has a sticky spot in the education category in 10 countries and has about half a million users. Not maintained anymore tho. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lrn-learn-to-code-in-html/id1019622677?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lrn-learn-to-code-in-html/id... Another app that comes to my mind is from vouge. It was also featured by Apple on the home page.
dw2 8y ago
Again, not exactly popular (as of yet), but our app 'Workshop' is an example of a heavily video based RN app: - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workshop-go-learn/id1236125772 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workshop-go-learn/id12361257... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.workshop.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.workshop.ap...
RubenSandwich 8y ago
Dawn Chorus an app I worked on, which was featured on the iOS app store[1], was written completely in React Native. Here are the App Store links: iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dawn-chorus/id1146931666?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dawn-chorus/id1146931666?mt=... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dawnchorus&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dawnchorus... We even open sourced it: https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus I believe it is an example of a high fidelity and quality React Native app on two platforms. [1] https://rubennic.com/static/img/Dawn-Chorus.png https://rubennic.com/static/img/Dawn-Chorus.png
- metachris 8y ago
  Looks like a beautiful app. Installed and tested... snooze is not working. See the reviews // just tested it myself on Android -- snoozing once will just disable the alarm when it should ring the next time.
  - RubenSandwich 8y ago
    Unfortunately I'm not longer on the team that created the app. But feel free to create an issuie: https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus.
thijser 8y ago
Our site (AppBrain) indexes which Android app contain which libraries. This doesn't indicate exclusive use of a framework of course, but the trend is very clear that React Native is much more popular than Flutter. React Native has a number of 1 billion+ downloaded apps, whereas the biggest Flutter app is 1 million+. https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/react_native/react-native https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/react_nativ... vs https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/flutter/flutter https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/flutter/flu...
- thosakwe 8y ago
  Well, I mean, considering the fact that React Native came out long before Flutter was released, it would be very surprising if Flutter superseded the amount of downloads already.
afsina 8y ago
Although production quality, Flutter is not even 1.0.0 so don't expect a lot of public applications yet.
- Gys 8y ago
  RN is at 0.55-RC according to https://facebook.github.io/react-native/versions https://facebook.github.io/react-native/versions For open source frameworks the versions do not seem to be much indication for their maturity.
  - oorza 8y ago
    (six months into a react-native project) RN isn't production-ready/stable yet either. They're about to do a major overhaul of the internals because of fundamental flaws that have been surfaced by the community. While it's possible to use RN in production, "stable" is a laugh... there are monthly releases and almost all of them have some kind of breaking changes, so pacing RN releases is a huge fucking hassle. For example, in the release that comes out this month (currently in RC), they changed the Native Module API so if you have any native code that exposes a JS API (and who doesn't?) you have to refactor a bunch of code. And because it's JS, the only way you get compiler errors is if you're using Flow.
    - askthrowaway 8y ago
      Also the bug introduced in 0.55.3 where deleting from TextInput a few times make it very slow.. To fix it I have to upgrade to higher version which drops support for iOS 8 !!
      - je42 8y ago
        they broke fetch's cookiesupport in one release...
- gman83 8y ago
  There are some: https://flutter.io/showcase/ https://flutter.io/showcase/ But yeah, I know a lot of developers who have started playing with Flutter in the last couple of months, so there should be a lot more later this year/next year.
siralonso 8y ago
Our last app (Chorus, a podcast player mashed up with a social network, http://chorus.am http://chorus.am) was built entirely in react-native - with the exception of the streaming implementation. In my mind, it's a great example of the optionality that RN gives you: easy cross-platform UI dev with an escape hatch to write native code when you need to.
- globuous 8y ago
  It's a shame expo.io doesn't provide background audio [0], they've been saying for years that "it's be supported soon" but it still isn't... That being said, expo.io is absolutely amazing if you need to use native features through RN without touching O-C/Swift [0] https://docs.expo.io/versions/v28.0.0/sdk/audio https://docs.expo.io/versions/v28.0.0/sdk/audio
chadwilken 8y ago
Our app, CompanyCam, is entirely React Native. We did write some bridges for our camera, but you can still lay it out in React Native so its mainly React Native.
mattdennewitz 8y ago
until recently, airbnb made a substantial effort to integrate react native. project immaturity and a need for faster version releases necessitated maintaining an internal fork. they've since begun to move back to platform-native languages. https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...
- devmunchies 8y ago
  It’s like twitter moving off rails back in the day. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad choice for smaller projects where dev speed is more important than scallability.
adamqureshi 8y ago
I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)
- _bxg1 8y ago
  Well the obvious advantage of using React Native is portability to Android. The less-obvious advantage is partial portability to the web (would still take additional dev work, but some code could be shared) and the ability to hire JavaScript developers instead of Swift developers, of which there are lots more. But if it's definitely an iOS exclusive and you don't plan on scaling your dev team up massively in the future, then there's no reason not to just use Swift.
  - adamqureshi 8y ago
    Thank you! Yeah for version 1 its iOS, most of my customers are on iphone. the other thing i need feedback on is, do i charge charge $1 to download the app or not? i do plan to charge to list your item for sale. Last i heard apple takes 22%? no way im gonna run ads on it.
    - _bxg1 8y ago
      Unfortunately I have no qualifications to give an opinion on that question
- slow_donkey 8y ago
  There's an article from Instagram/Airbnb about RN and how some screens weren't suitable because they were too heavy like the activity feed. As an aside, I haven't seen performance be a big factor in consumer apps. If you think of many popular products, they were kinda terrible in the beginning.
- hjnilsson 8y ago
nprz 8y ago
Our app, Sift Connect, was built entirely with React Native. I started the project with no android or iOS experience. We have a collective ~1000 daily active users and a 70 NP score. iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sift-connect/id1213640928?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sift-connect/id1213640928?mt... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justsift.connect https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justsift.c...
applecrazy 8y ago
A while ago I saw on HN a postmortem on Airbnb’s use of RN for their mobile app[1]. It was an interesting read and went into quite a bit of detail. [1]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...
onewland 8y ago
Don't know how you define popular but I'm pretty sure Eaze (weed delivery service) is all React Native.
anothergoogler 8y ago
ITT: People promoting their unpopular React Native apps.
rawrmaan 8y ago
My game Falcross is written entirely in RN, and I believe it is the biggest production game on either store that's full RN: [App Store]: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/falcross-logic-puzzles/id500195713?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/falcross-logic-puzzles/id500... [Google Play]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawrmaan.falcross&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawrmaan.f...
seangransee 8y ago
Sushi Count, the market leading app for counting sushi, was built with React Native. http://www.sushicount.com/ http://www.sushicount.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-count/id655076814?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-count/id655076814?ls=1... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seangransee.sushicount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seangranse...
Reedx 8y ago
For those that have used both Flutter and RN (or NativeScript), which did you end up preferring? What would you use for your next project?
kkkk460 8y ago
E-commerce Flutter App : https://github.com/Praneet460/E-commerse_App/tree/master/flutter_e_commerce_app https://github.com/Praneet460/E-commerse_App/tree/master/flu... Avenger Gallery Flutter App: https://github.com/Praneet460/Avengers-Gallery https://github.com/Praneet460/Avengers-Gallery Chat App using flutter: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Codelabs/tree/master/friendlychat https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Codelabs/tree/master/f... Flutter 3D Animation: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Animation/tree/master/three_dimension_preview https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Animation/tree/master/...
findmory 8y ago
Go90 the free streaming video app from Verizon (that is being sunsetted on 31 July) is built in RN
noso 8y ago
RecBox.io was built with React Native IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recbox-io/id1378437194?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recbox-io/id1378437194?ls=1&... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox
ponyous 8y ago
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-generator-by-zombodroid/id645831841?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-generator-by-zombodroid... The app on play store has 10m+ installs, I had to clone it to iOS and since I'm a web dev I used React Native. Haven't seen stats for sometime but I assume it has 100k+ MAU at this point. Another one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-window-social-experience-design-stories-collections/id1047667565?mt=8&app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-window-social-experience-... This is the first app I built (with a team). Development started with React Native version 0.7. And I think it's a good example of possible user interactions. Example app features: - Gyro to "navigate" around images (looks neat and it's smooth, not sure you can do much better with native) - Blur & parallax scrolling (On old phones (iPhone 5 and less) performance could become a little janky) - Lists with 1000s of items (just want to say performance is good if you handle it properly) ^ Note: you need to register to see anything in this one React Native has come a long way, but most of the stuff was already possible two years ago. Personally I never found myself in a situation where something wouldn't be possible. If it was impossible in RN then we simply made a bridge to Obj-C and boom, double the ecosystem of available libraries.
ved_a 8y ago
Myntra (India's largest fashion ecommerce portal) has both the Android and iOS apps built with RN

82 points by Elect2 8y ago

I know some apps that are partly using RN or Flutter. But I'm interested to know what app can be made fully by RN or Flutter.

m_ke 8y ago

Our app (Bitesnap) is made with RN. Another popular one is Gyroscope. - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitesnap-photo-food-journal/id1108291490?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitesnap-photo-food-journal/... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.bite.biteapp&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.bite.biteap... - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gyroscope-health/id1104085053?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gyroscope-health/id110408505... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyroscope.gyroscope&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyroscope....

andrewingram 8y ago
Gyroscope is one of those apps that's extremely aesthetically pleasing, but I'm always reluctant to use as an example of React Native. Mainly because none of the interactions feel "right". It's always reminded me of those highly polished Flash websites that look amazing, but something always seems off when you use them. From the screenshots Bitesnap looks nice, but I can't seem to download it in the UK.
- flanbiscuit 8y ago
  curious what you mean by not feeling right or seeming off? Those are very vague reasons. I'm not a user of this app, nor a developer.
  - andrewingram 8y ago
    To be honest, it's a vague feeling. Similar to the uncanny valley of special effects in movies. There's a lot of UI elements that have the appearance of (heavily-stylised) native ones, but not the behaviour. You can't swipe back on screen transitions, tapping the selected tab icon doesn't scroll the screen to top, everything feels almost imperceptibly sluggish. Lots of little things like these.

aplummer 8y ago

I would like to know about Xamarin too if anyone has them. Particularly looking for high fidelity creative / UX

opayen 8y ago
Microsoft News is built with Xamarin (source: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384 https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384) - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.amp.apps.bingnews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.... - iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?m...
thijser 8y ago
Not exclusive use, but here are some apps that contain the Xamarin code: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/xamarin/xamarin https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/xamarin/xam...

indy 8y ago

Hamilton was built with flutter. https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-months-with-flutter-reaches-1m-installs-f37f81856be4 https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-...

benjaminasmith 8y ago

Not exactly "popular" (only 10k downloads), but my Pathfinder spell tracking app is built 100% Flutter: https://www.spelltrackerapp.com/ https://www.spelltrackerapp.com/

dangelov 8y ago

Slightly off-topic, but it's super interesting to see Flutter (which seems to be by Google), use Visual Studio Code (by Microsoft) and an iPhone X simulator (by Apple) as their main demo. I guess it gets the point across.

slow_donkey 8y ago
I'm actually really happy they've invested in a vscode plugin. The Android story of being forced to use Android Studio was not fun, even considering how good Intellij is
- bybjorn 8y ago
  Have you tried IntelliJ IDEA? It’s great for Flutter development.

marcocot 8y ago

Maybe not "popular" but this is made entirely in RN: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uefa.euro2016 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uefa.euro2... https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/uefa-european-qualifiers/id1061115611?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/uefa-european-qualifiers/id1...

jqbx_jason 8y ago

Same preface (not exactly popular...yet) but the JQBX mobile apps: https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm are built with RN. The only "native" parts are a bridge for playing audio but I'm not sure if that's what you meant by "fully" RN or not.

mikece 8y ago

Is there a larger question about how many cross-platform, non-hybrid applications are out there and which is the best stack for doing likewise? The field includes: Flutter, NativeScript, React Native, Ruby Motion, Xamarin, KikApp (PHP), PyMob and Kivy (python), RubyMotion (Ruby)... and of course C++.

joshstrange 8y ago
Also Cordova/Ionic
- mikece 8y ago
  That would be hybrid but I gather from the question that there's a goal to avoid that stack.

chirag04 8y ago

May not be as popular anymore but Lrn app was built with RN and was featured by Apple on the home page in 110+ countries. Still has a sticky spot in the education category in 10 countries and has about half a million users. Not maintained anymore tho. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lrn-learn-to-code-in-html/id1019622677?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lrn-learn-to-code-in-html/id... Another app that comes to my mind is from vouge. It was also featured by Apple on the home page.

dw2 8y ago

Again, not exactly popular (as of yet), but our app 'Workshop' is an example of a heavily video based RN app: - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workshop-go-learn/id1236125772 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workshop-go-learn/id12361257... - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.workshop.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ws.workshop.ap...

RubenSandwich 8y ago

Dawn Chorus an app I worked on, which was featured on the iOS app store[1], was written completely in React Native. Here are the App Store links: iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dawn-chorus/id1146931666?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dawn-chorus/id1146931666?mt=... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dawnchorus&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dawnchorus... We even open sourced it: https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus I believe it is an example of a high fidelity and quality React Native app on two platforms. [1] https://rubennic.com/static/img/Dawn-Chorus.png https://rubennic.com/static/img/Dawn-Chorus.png

metachris 8y ago
Looks like a beautiful app. Installed and tested... snooze is not working. See the reviews // just tested it myself on Android -- snoozing once will just disable the alarm when it should ring the next time.
- RubenSandwich 8y ago
  Unfortunately I'm not longer on the team that created the app. But feel free to create an issuie: https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus https://github.com/CMP-Studio/DawnChorus.

thijser 8y ago

Our site (AppBrain) indexes which Android app contain which libraries. This doesn't indicate exclusive use of a framework of course, but the trend is very clear that React Native is much more popular than Flutter. React Native has a number of 1 billion+ downloaded apps, whereas the biggest Flutter app is 1 million+. https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/react_native/react-native https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/react_nativ... vs https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/flutter/flutter https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/flutter/flu...

thosakwe 8y ago
Well, I mean, considering the fact that React Native came out long before Flutter was released, it would be very surprising if Flutter superseded the amount of downloads already.

afsina 8y ago

Although production quality, Flutter is not even 1.0.0 so don't expect a lot of public applications yet.

Gys 8y ago
RN is at 0.55-RC according to https://facebook.github.io/react-native/versions https://facebook.github.io/react-native/versions For open source frameworks the versions do not seem to be much indication for their maturity.
- oorza 8y ago
  (six months into a react-native project) RN isn't production-ready/stable yet either. They're about to do a major overhaul of the internals because of fundamental flaws that have been surfaced by the community. While it's possible to use RN in production, "stable" is a laugh... there are monthly releases and almost all of them have some kind of breaking changes, so pacing RN releases is a huge fucking hassle. For example, in the release that comes out this month (currently in RC), they changed the Native Module API so if you have any native code that exposes a JS API (and who doesn't?) you have to refactor a bunch of code. And because it's JS, the only way you get compiler errors is if you're using Flow.
  - askthrowaway 8y ago
    Also the bug introduced in 0.55.3 where deleting from TextInput a few times make it very slow.. To fix it I have to upgrade to higher version which drops support for iOS 8 !!
    - je42 8y ago
      they broke fetch's cookiesupport in one release...
gman83 8y ago
There are some: https://flutter.io/showcase/ https://flutter.io/showcase/ But yeah, I know a lot of developers who have started playing with Flutter in the last couple of months, so there should be a lot more later this year/next year.

siralonso 8y ago

Our last app (Chorus, a podcast player mashed up with a social network, http://chorus.am http://chorus.am) was built entirely in react-native - with the exception of the streaming implementation. In my mind, it's a great example of the optionality that RN gives you: easy cross-platform UI dev with an escape hatch to write native code when you need to.

globuous 8y ago
It's a shame expo.io doesn't provide background audio [0], they've been saying for years that "it's be supported soon" but it still isn't... That being said, expo.io is absolutely amazing if you need to use native features through RN without touching O-C/Swift [0] https://docs.expo.io/versions/v28.0.0/sdk/audio https://docs.expo.io/versions/v28.0.0/sdk/audio

chadwilken 8y ago

Our app, CompanyCam, is entirely React Native. We did write some bridges for our camera, but you can still lay it out in React Native so its mainly React Native.

mattdennewitz 8y ago

until recently, airbnb made a substantial effort to integrate react native. project immaturity and a need for faster version releases necessitated maintaining an internal fork. they've since begun to move back to platform-native languages. https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...

devmunchies 8y ago
It’s like twitter moving off rails back in the day. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad choice for smaller projects where dev speed is more important than scallability.

adamqureshi 8y ago

I have a tiny marketplace start up and am building an iOS app for it. I know a strong dev who can build it in SWIFT + Firebase. BUT i am thinking (seeking feedback) if there are ANY advantages to using RN? I am not even considering flutter. I just want the app not to suffer from any performance issues. I am leaning towards shipping to app store ASAP. ( maybe 2-3 months)

_bxg1 8y ago
Well the obvious advantage of using React Native is portability to Android. The less-obvious advantage is partial portability to the web (would still take additional dev work, but some code could be shared) and the ability to hire JavaScript developers instead of Swift developers, of which there are lots more. But if it's definitely an iOS exclusive and you don't plan on scaling your dev team up massively in the future, then there's no reason not to just use Swift.
- adamqureshi 8y ago
  Thank you! Yeah for version 1 its iOS, most of my customers are on iphone. the other thing i need feedback on is, do i charge charge $1 to download the app or not? i do plan to charge to list your item for sale. Last i heard apple takes 22%? no way im gonna run ads on it.
  - _bxg1 8y ago
    Unfortunately I have no qualifications to give an opinion on that question
slow_donkey 8y ago
There's an article from Instagram/Airbnb about RN and how some screens weren't suitable because they were too heavy like the activity feed. As an aside, I haven't seen performance be a big factor in consumer apps. If you think of many popular products, they were kinda terrible in the beginning.
hjnilsson 8y ago

nprz 8y ago

Our app, Sift Connect, was built entirely with React Native. I started the project with no android or iOS experience. We have a collective ~1000 daily active users and a 70 NP score. iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sift-connect/id1213640928?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sift-connect/id1213640928?mt... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justsift.connect https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.justsift.c...

applecrazy 8y ago

A while ago I saw on HN a postmortem on Airbnb’s use of RN for their mobile app[1]. It was an interesting read and went into quite a bit of detail. [1]: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...

onewland 8y ago

Don't know how you define popular but I'm pretty sure Eaze (weed delivery service) is all React Native.

anothergoogler 8y ago

ITT: People promoting their unpopular React Native apps.

rawrmaan 8y ago

My game Falcross is written entirely in RN, and I believe it is the biggest production game on either store that's full RN: [App Store]: https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/falcross-logic-puzzles/id500195713?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/falcross-logic-puzzles/id500... [Google Play]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawrmaan.falcross&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawrmaan.f...

seangransee 8y ago

Sushi Count, the market leading app for counting sushi, was built with React Native. http://www.sushicount.com/ http://www.sushicount.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-count/id655076814?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-count/id655076814?ls=1... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seangransee.sushicount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seangranse...

Reedx 8y ago

For those that have used both Flutter and RN (or NativeScript), which did you end up preferring? What would you use for your next project?

kkkk460 8y ago

E-commerce Flutter App : https://github.com/Praneet460/E-commerse_App/tree/master/flutter_e_commerce_app https://github.com/Praneet460/E-commerse_App/tree/master/flu... Avenger Gallery Flutter App: https://github.com/Praneet460/Avengers-Gallery https://github.com/Praneet460/Avengers-Gallery Chat App using flutter: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Codelabs/tree/master/friendlychat https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Codelabs/tree/master/f... Flutter 3D Animation: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Animation/tree/master/three_dimension_preview https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Animation/tree/master/...

findmory 8y ago

Go90 the free streaming video app from Verizon (that is being sunsetted on 31 July) is built in RN

noso 8y ago

RecBox.io was built with React Native IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recbox-io/id1378437194?ls=1&mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/recbox-io/id1378437194?ls=1&... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recbox

ponyous 8y ago

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-generator-by-zombodroid/id645831841?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-generator-by-zombodroid... The app on play store has 10m+ installs, I had to clone it to iOS and since I'm a web dev I used React Native. Haven't seen stats for sometime but I assume it has 100k+ MAU at this point. Another one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-window-social-experience-design-stories-collections/id1047667565?mt=8&app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-window-social-experience-... This is the first app I built (with a team). Development started with React Native version 0.7. And I think it's a good example of possible user interactions. Example app features: - Gyro to "navigate" around images (looks neat and it's smooth, not sure you can do much better with native) - Blur & parallax scrolling (On old phones (iPhone 5 and less) performance could become a little janky) - Lists with 1000s of items (just want to say performance is good if you handle it properly) ^ Note: you need to register to see anything in this one React Native has come a long way, but most of the stuff was already possible two years ago. Personally I never found myself in a situation where something wouldn't be possible. If it was impossible in RN then we simply made a bridge to Obj-C and boom, double the ecosystem of available libraries.

ved_a 8y ago

Myntra (India's largest fashion ecommerce portal) has both the Android and iOS apps built with RN