The year 2020 saw an unprecedented rise in global smartphone users and mobile apps used all over the world. The world witnessed more than 218 billion mobile app downloads in 2020. Driven due to the COVID-19 induced pandemic phase, the exponential growth of mobile app downloads was experienced in several domains such as education, entertainment, health, communication, games, information, business, and more.
Google Trends advocate that “React Native app development” has been among the most popular search terms, even ahead of the term “hybrid app development.” Many industry giants have leveraged the power of React Native to take their brand ahead, including Tesla, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Skype, Vogue, Walmart, Uber, and many more.
Here are some of the pertinent reasons why React Native is the future of hybrid app development –
Cost-Efficient
The cost of developing a mobile application depends largely on the app’s operating system, design element, UI/UX, external API maintenance, and a few other factors.
Here are the key React Native features that make it cost-effective:
These features of React Native help in making the hybrid app development processes faster and cost-efficient for businesses.
Platform Agnostic
As most of the mobile applications developed on React Native are hybrid in nature, they can work on both Android and iOS with the same efficacy and can also run seamlessly on any other operating systems (OS) that support native apps. React Native’s capability to identify the OS, define the platform-specific implementations, and selecting the file automatically based on the OS, makes it one of the most viable options for hybrid app development.
Low Memory Usage
With React Native, the need to load everything on the interface of a mobile app gets eliminated as React Native app development is easily compatible with any kind of third-party plugin. As a result, the developer does not need to depend on WebView to execute functions and can easily connect with a plugin with the help of the Native module.
Faster Time-to-Market
One of the key benefits of React Native is that it makes the whole hybrid mobile app development cost-efficient and faster by as much as 30%. This is because the majority of the code can be easily shared between iOS and Android mobile app versions, which reduces the coding efforts significantly. Furthermore, the framework uses the Flexbox layout that allows the developers to work only with a single layout engine and develop iOS and Android hybrid applications with a significantly shorter time to market.
Aesthetic UI/UX Designs
User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) have become one of the most business-critical aspects for companies, and even the slightest of negligence in this area can result in huge losses. Companies need to make sure that their application’s UI/UX design is designed and implemented efficiently. As React JS is based on JavaScript, it is not as fast as Swift or Java, but still, it manages to run complex apps smoothly and efficiently due to the easy switch from Native languages to Native apps. The presence of asynchronous JavaScript connections makes mobile apps highly fluid and responsive and as a result, React Native provides a smoother and fast-loading experience as compared to traditional hybrid applications.
So, if you have plans to invest in a high-performance hybrid app, partner with a top Native app development company that has years of experience in building and deploying high-quality apps that are compatible with both Android and iOS and are robust, secure, and scalable.
