Yes, but only the minimal to provide that specific native functionality, instead of a full blown native app. Unless you're doing something uncommon, there's mo

Yes, but only the minimal to provide that specific native functionality, instead of a full blown native app. Unless you're doing something uncommon, there's most likely a 3rd party lib for that functionality. But yes, if you want to use a native platform feature that the standard lib doesn't expose of course you need native code either by you or someone else, that's the flexibility of React Native.