I'll give another vote for Expo, just a happy user here. I wrote and released an iOS and Android app a few years ago and used Expo for ease of cross platform a

I'll give another vote for Expo, just a happy user here. I wrote and released an iOS and Android app a few years ago and used Expo for ease of cross platform and the hosted build system. I don't use all the fancy OTA updates and what not, but I can definitely recommend Expo as both a beginner to RN and beginner to iOS+Android app dev.