When we are developing something, we want it to be an ultimate product full of features capable of satisfying our customers. Mobile apps development often falls short of such as being with limited options and scope, that’s where developers want to integrate the web functionality into their mobile apps. React Native Applications a one such widely used popular way to make use of the functionality of web apps within the mobile framework.
There is the major advantage of shared code across all platforms which let app development complete in a shorter time. There are many popular
Below is a list that we have compiled of many such react native apps in the app store that make the most of its functionality and are hugely famous amongst its user base.
- Walmart
- Facebook Ads
- Bloomberg
- Soundcloud Pulse
- Delivery.com
- Wix
- Townske
- Gyroscope
The popular photo-sharing social network implemented react native functionality with the simple Push Notification view, which was quite easy due to the lack of infrastructure needs.
Also, due to this almost 90% coding was shared between iOS and Android apps making the app delivery a lot faster. True, they got a lot of hassles in the starting but once ahead of the road, it was quite smooth.
Walmart
Walmart is known for its risk-taking stance and innovative mindset, it was one of the few who introduced Node.js into their stack. A few years later, they also made use of react-native functionality within apps.
With the help of react native, not only they had to utilize fewer resources and consume even less time, they were able to improve the performance of their app on both iOS and Android platform. Both their apps on Android and iOS platform share about 96% of their coding.
Due to striving ahead of their competition, Walmart has to make use of such new technologies which allow them to improve customer experience and deliver more. A further added advantage of this is the extra smooth animations within the app.
Is Facebook written in React Native? Is Instagram React Native? The answer to both is yes, and it was only a couple years after Facebook acquired Instagram that this happened. So, you can credit Mark Zuckerberg for it.
Initially, it was developed by an engineer at Facebook to support iOS apps, but recently it has started supported Android operating system as well. Facebook made use of it to bring its web app features such as quick iterations into the mobile app and also to have a single team handle the app development completely.
The reason Facebook made React Native open-source was to further promote the idea of shared code and to enable development of support from other OS such as Windows within the developer community.
Huge usage improvements were noticed within the app after implementing react native functionality. Event dashboard startup became twice as fast and due to changes at the framework level, any updates automatically benefit from it.
Facebook Ads
Many little of you know that Facebook ad was the very first android app to be developed under react native framework. The framework was perfect for it to handle differences across the globe in various parameters involved such as time zones, ad formats, currencies etc.
They benefited largely from it, getting a clean interface with brilliant user experience and very fast transitions. For those advertisers and those who are running ads, Facebook recommends doing so via app only for these reasons.
Bloomberg
Engineers at Bloomberg developed a whole new application while making use of the innovative technology of react native. They had to go with it as they needed to smooth the transition of the entire organization within the mobile app.
The result was a smooth interactive experience with in-app with easy to access personalized content, media as well as live feeds featured upon it.
Another advantage that they got was the automated code refreshing of react native which accelerated release of new product features. As unlike other technologies, it reloads your app instantly for any small changes whatsoever instead of recompiling the whole code once upon a time.
SoundCloud Pulse
SoundCloud pulse stumbled upon a barrier of troubles when they started to develop their native apps. Efficient, able iOS developers were nowhere near enough feasible to get ahold of. And, they wanted to release both Android and iOS apps almost at the same time.
That’s when an independent Android developers team hired by them began to create React Native based prototype apps and run user tests on them. They found the experience very positive and encouraging.
They had it easy as compared to developing a typical native application and moreover didn’t required regular support and inputs from specialized mobile developers which made the whole process very easy on the budget.
Delivery.com
Delivery is essentially an e-commerce web-based site which allows you to order from nearby restaurants, grocery stores and other service providers from the comfort of your home. It has a daily traffic of about 1 million users and more than 10 thousand businesses registered upon it.
With the shift in paradigm from web users to majority preferring mobile experience, it needed an app that can provide its users with all the necessary features such as map integration, while making of use as less memory as possible and faster processing.
With the help of react native, they were able to link it with a native module, thus further being able to connect the map within it to more necessary features such as zoom, rotate, compass etc.
Wix
Wix is an online drag and drop module-based web development platform. It also provides web hosting services as well. In it, users can build their own websites as well as web applications in HTML/CSS and/or their mobile version and need not know any coding to do that all.
They have a lot of easy navigation options available including react native navigation which is most feasible due to it being highly configurable and available customization options with regularly maintained and updated codebase.
WIth React Native, they were able to overcome the inefficiency, less productivity and slower feature deployment rate of traditional native app development. You can check all the other details on their project on Github.
Townske
They are your friendly trip guide, connecting you with the locals wherever you go and providing a carefully selected and reviewed list of places to explore and experience.
They needed an app with faster loading times such as compared to the others, this wasn’t feasible with native app functionality due to heavy usage of this app. On the other hand, react native is solely UI based which resulted in a highly responsive and fluid interactive environment within the app. All this was possible mainly due to asynchronous JS interactions with the native module while using react native functionality.
Gyroscope
It’s the ultimate health productivity app. Not just your walking steps or heart rate, you can track and measure your everyday activities like sleep monitoring and time spent on computer etc.
With the help of react native functionality, it was able to integrate dozens of minimal features making all the above possible.
Wrapping it up:
Thus, as you can see, react native is becoming an increasingly popular choice with app developers and owners alike to create an android app. If you would also like to learn how to develop a mobile app using react native then read here.
Shashank Tiwari
Shashank Tiwari is a Digital Marketing Expert with experience over 6+ years. Has an extensive experience of marketing in varied industry type. A tech-savvy person who loves being engrossed with latest tech news, trends & strategies.