What the engineers at Facebook invented is now one of the most prolific cross-platform mobile app development solutions in the world – React Native. Almost every leading mobile application development companies in UAE now use the four year old React Native to build robust, high-performance apps. Most of these apps are now very popular and are contributing to the increasing demand for apps built using React Native.

In this article, we will explore a few of the most popular mobile apps built using the reliable open source framework. 

Instagram

The most engaged social media network after Facebook, Instagram presently has a billion monthly active users. Before Facebook acquired it, Instagram was a popular native app i.e. developers were building multiple native apps for different types of phones. But then Facebook transformed it by letting go of a few native functionality and transitioning the best features to React Native. This resulted in improved customer satisfaction and higher engagement while allowing developers to add new features frequently.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise by now that to build an app like Instagram, every experienced mobile app development company now use React Native.

Bloomberg

Built with React Native, Bloomberg is capable of providing easy-to-access, personalized content to users in a streamlined, highly engaging manner. With React Native automatically refreshing the code, new features can be released rapidly. 

Walmart

Walmart still dominates because they value customer experience like none other. Its e-Commerce app is a testament to this fact. Walmart leveraged React Native to improve the performance of its app significantly while allowing developers to release frequent changes on both iOS and Android versions of the app. 96% of the codebase was successfully shared between the two platforms thanks to Facebook’s open source framework. 

Airbnb

Airbnb took a while to realize that most of their bookings were being done through mobile devices. This led them to develop mobile apps. The company didn’t have enough resources then to invest in native apps for popular mobile platforms. So they decided to use React Native to develop a cross-platform mobile app.

This considerably reduced the time-to-market for its mobile app at a fraction of cost. The developers were able to release new versions rapidly, and mobile users were given an even more convenient and interactive way to book stays. 

UberEATS

Just like Airbnb, UberEATS only found out later that their restaurant dashboard was being accessed mostly through mobile devices. With React Native, they were able to build an app that utilizes the native functionalities of the user’s mobile platform. This improved the user experience of both restaurant owners and consumers subsequently leading to more positive reviews and downloads. 

Conclusion

If you think React Native can help you with your enterprise mobility strategy, make sure to approach a developer with ample expertise when it comes to leveraging powerful mobile technologies so they can successfully utilize the potential of the open source framework to grant you a cross-platform app that is appealing to the targeted user base and easier to update.