React Native allows teams to build genuinely native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and React — sharing business logic, state management, navigation, and most UI components across both platforms while retaining the ability to access native APIs and platform-specific UI patterns when needed. For product teams already working in React, React Native significantly reduces the total engineering investment in mobile development. When you hire a React Native developer, architecture experience is what separates apps that feel native from ones that merely run on mobile.
When you hire React Native developers from Devvista, you get engineers who understand the architecture of a React Native application properly — the bridge (or the new architecture), native modules, performance profiling, gesture handling, and the release management process that gets apps through store review and into users' hands. They build React Native apps that feel like native apps because they treat platform conventions with the same care as a native developer would.
Hire a React Native developer who builds apps users mistake for native. Contact Devvista today.
What Our React Native Developers Build
Consumer iOS and Android Applications
We build consumer-facing React Native apps with polished animations using Reanimated 3, proper gesture handling with Gesture Handler, and platform-appropriate navigation with React Navigation. Our developers know where to add platform-specific code for the UI details that users notice on each platform.
Enterprise Mobile Applications
For internal enterprise apps — field service, approvals, inventory, employee tools — React Native delivers the productivity of a shared codebase with the native performance that enterprise users expect. We integrate with MDM systems, enterprise identity providers, and internal APIs.
React Native with Expo
Expo simplifies the development and build pipeline significantly for many React Native projects. We build Expo-managed and bare workflow applications, set up EAS Build and EAS Submit for CI/CD, and manage the upgrade process as Expo SDK versions advance.
Bare React Native with Custom Native Modules
When Expo's managed workflow is too limiting — custom native SDK integrations, hardware access, or third-party SDKs without React Native support — we work with bare React Native and write the native module bridges in Swift and Kotlin.
Performance Optimization for React Native
React Native applications with poor performance are almost always suffering from preventable problems — JavaScript thread blocking, unnecessary re-renders, unoptimized images, or navigation patterns that are not using native drivers. We audit and optimize React Native applications to reach smooth 60fps interactions.
React Native Skills We Cover
Our React Native developers work with React Native 0.72+ and the new architecture (Fabric renderer, Turbo Modules, JSI), Expo SDK, React Navigation, Reanimated 3, Gesture Handler, Zustand and Redux Toolkit for state management, React Query for server state, MMKV for local storage, and CodePush for OTA updates. They configure Fastlane and EAS Build for CI/CD pipelines and manage App Store and Google Play release processes.
Our Hiring Process
Requirements Call
We understand your platforms, feature complexity, and existing React/JS expertise in your team.
Matching
We identify React Native developers whose experience fits your application type.
Interview
Your process. We coordinate.
Onboarding
Handled. Contributing in week one.
Support
You lead. We manage.
Why Choose Devvista?
React Native developer quality ranges widely. The framework's flexibility means poor architectural decisions are easy to make and expensive to undo. Our assessment tests React Native-specific knowledge — bridge architecture, performance profiling, native module writing, and the Reanimated patterns that separate smooth apps from janky ones.
Engagement Models
Full-time dedicated, part-time, or project-based. Mobile projects often start project-based and continue as retainers for updates and new features.