React Native development for field and customer apps.
Reach crews and customers on iOS and Android from one codebase that shares its model and logic with the web application, with offline queues, photos, signatures, and native code only where a device feature needs it.
- InterfaceReact · Next.js
- MobileReact Native
- ServicesNode.js · TypeScript
- DataPostgreSQL · Python pipelines
- AIOpenAI · Anthropic · chosen per task
- CloudAWS · Azure · Google Cloud
What we build with it
Where React Native fits.
Field and crew apps
Jobs, check-in, forms, photos, and signatures, working without a signal.
Customer apps
Booking, status, approvals, and documents, connected to your systems of record.
Mobile clients for existing products
A phone app on an API you already have.
Apps that share a backend with the web
One set of records and one permission model across the office and the field.
Use cases
Applications we build with React Native.
Inspection and audit apps
Guided checklists with required fields, photos, and readings that inspectors complete on site, producing a report the office can review and send.
Delivery and proof of delivery
Driver apps with stop lists, barcode scanning, photos, and signatures that confirm each delivery and post it back to the office.
Sales and ordering apps
Apps for sales representatives to browse catalogs, check stock, and place orders at a customer site, even where the signal is weak.
Staff scheduling and time apps
Schedules, shift swaps, time entry, and company notices in one app for staff who work away from a desk.
Asset and equipment tracking
Scanning of equipment, tools, and inventory by barcode or QR code, with location, condition, and history recorded against each item.
Member and loyalty apps
Apps where members book services, view their history, receive offers, and manage their details, connected to the systems behind the business.
We choose it when
- The app needs both iOS and Android without two teams.
- The daily loop is forms, photos, offline capture, and notifications: the common business app.
- The web application is React, so the model and much of the logic can be shared.
We reach for something else when
- Occasional, mostly-reading use with a signal: a phone-friendly web application is enough.
- Heavy device work, such as sensors, background tracking, or intensive graphics: native code, at least for that part.
- A vendor already offers a field app that fits your workflow: use it.
How we use it
We use TypeScript across the app and the backend, add native modules where a device feature needs them, build an offline queue with conflict rules where needed, test the logic, run the app on the phones your people carry, and release through the stores with crash and usage monitoring.
What it means for you
- Much of the model and logic is shared with the web application, so a fix lands once.
- One codebase for both platforms keeps the maintenance team small.
- Store submission, monitoring, and a release runbook are handed over.
Engineering practice
How we build with React Native.
Testing on real devices
Every release is run on the phone models and operating system versions your people carry, in addition to automated tests on shared logic.
Offline sync testing
Offline capture is tested by cutting the connection mid-task, editing the same record on two devices, and confirming the agreed conflict rules hold.
Secure storage on the device
Tokens and sensitive fields are kept in the platform’s secure storage, and sessions can be ended remotely when a phone is lost.
Crash and error monitoring
Crash reporting and error tracking run in every release, so problems on a specific device or version are visible to the team as they occur.
Staged store releases
Releases go to internal testers first, then roll out in stages through the App Store and Google Play, with over-the-air updates for small fixes where allowed.
Questions
Questions about React Native.
What business and technology leaders ask us about it.
Is it as good as native?
For business apps, yes: forms, photos, signatures, offline queues, and notifications are well served. For heavy device work we add native modules or recommend native for that part.
Does it work offline?
When the app needs it. Changes queue on the phone and sync when the signal returns, with conflicts resolved by rules we agree on with you.
Can it use our existing API?
Yes. If there is no API, the first release includes one on the same backend as the web application.
Who publishes and maintains it?
We take it through store review to release. After that your team or ours maintains it, with the release runbook and monitoring handed over.
Is React Native a good choice for enterprise apps?
For most business apps, yes. React Native is used in production by large companies, works with device management and single sign-on, and shares its model with a React web application, which lets one team maintain both. For apps dominated by heavy device work, native code for that part is the better choice.
How do you keep the app current with iOS and Android updates?
Apple and Google update their operating systems and store rules regularly. React Native and its libraries are upgraded on a planned schedule, tested on current devices, and released through staged rollouts, so the app keeps meeting store requirements and runs well on new phones as they arrive.
What affects the cost of a React Native app?
Offline requirements, the number of device features such as scanning, camera, or location, the systems the app must connect to, and the number of roles and screens. Reusing the backend and logic of an existing web application lowers the effort. The assessment names these factors before an estimate is given.
Scope a mobile app.
Tell us about the application and the systems around it.We’ll come back with what we would build first, and which tools we would use.