Discord is switching to React Native on Android Discord is switching to React Native for its Android app, which will allow the company to roll out new features across every platform simultaneously.

React Native will soon transform the entire mobile app development industry ... app needs to be developed twice or more to run on iOS, Android and other platforms. This is an obvious cost-driver ...

Facebook-owned React Native is a JavaScript framework used for building Android and iOS apps. It's used by 11% of dev Android and iPhone apps, with developers earning an average of $117,000 a year.

For example, earlier this year, Facebook built a native Ads Manager app for iOS and Android in half the time expected thanks to React. Instead of 18 months, Facebook wrote the iOS app in 5 months ...

Bloomberg found that React Native was the best tool available in the market today to create native apps simultaneously for both iOS and Android platforms. Before React Native, Bloomberg teams ...

Worse yet: "Debugging React Native for Android is currently not supported except for the simulator logs." That rules out Nuclide, though I had installed it earlier and again played around with it a ...

you have to build separate apps for both iOS and Android. There are cross platform frameworks such as React Native, however that generally results in a subpar experience on both platforms.