Hire React Native developers to build and scale your software.

There is no single rate for React Native developers. Cost depends on the seniority you need, the engagement model you choose (adding developers to your team, a dedicated team, or a fixed-price project), how long the engagement runs and the scope of the work. For React Native work, the biggest drivers are how far behind the current release an existing app has fallen, how many libraries depend on custom or unmaintained native code, and whether the app must share components and logic with a React web product. Share your requirements and we will come back with a quote for your situation.

You tell us the technology, seniority, role and team structure you need. We recommend React Native developer profiles that match those requirements, and you review the profiles and speak with the engineers yourself before anyone joins your team. When you interview, the areas worth testing are how Fabric, TurboModules and JSI differ from the legacy bridge; writing or adapting a native module in Swift or Kotlin; expo config plugins, development builds and EAS workflows; diagnosing re-renders and list performance; planning a multi-version React Native upgrade; and end-to-end testing with Detox or Maestro.

It depends on which engineers with the right skills are available when you get in touch, so we do not publish a fixed start date. Availability is part of the conversation when we recommend profiles, and the start date is agreed with you before the engagement begins.

Because you interview the engineers before anyone joins, fit is tested before work starts. If concerns come up once the engagement is running, raise them with us directly. How changes to the team are handled is set out in the terms you agree with us at the start.

A freelancer suits small, well-defined tasks you can manage yourself. A dedicated developer joins your team under your direction. A dedicated team adds several roles around your product, and a project-based team delivers a defined outcome end to end.

The New Architecture replaces the old asynchronous bridge with JSI, letting JavaScript call native code directly. Fabric is the new rendering system and TurboModules load native modules lazily. It is now the default, so older apps and libraries that depend on the legacy bridge need checking and updating before an upgrade can go ahead.

Expo is now the recommended starting point for most apps. Development builds and config plugins allow custom native code, and EAS handles builds, submissions and over-the-air updates. A fully bare project still makes sense when an app has heavy existing native code or build tooling that Expo's prebuild process would fight against.

Business logic, API clients, validation, state stores and TypeScript types usually share cleanly through a monorepo package. UI shares less, because React Native uses View and Text rather than DOM elements. React Native Web or Expo Router can bridge that gap, but many teams share logic and keep screens platform-specific.

Each release can change native project files, Gradle and Xcode settings, and third-party libraries that lag behind. Skipping several versions compounds this. Upgrading one version at a time with the Upgrade Helper diff, auditing unmaintained libraries first, and letting Expo manage native files where possible keeps upgrades routine rather than risky.

JavaScript and asset changes can be delivered over the air with EAS Update, which is useful for fixes and small improvements. Any change to native code, permissions or dependencies with native parts still needs a new store build. Store rules also expect over-the-air updates not to change the app's core purpose.

Most problems come from unnecessary re-renders, long lists rendered with ScrollView instead of FlashList or FlatList, and animations running on the JavaScript thread. Reanimated moves animations to the UI thread, Hermes improves startup, and React DevTools with the Hermes profiler shows where render time actually goes.

React Navigation is the long-standing choice, with native stack navigators that use platform transitions. Expo Router builds on it with file-based routes, which simplifies deep linking and feels familiar to Next.js developers. We choose based on whether the project already uses Expo and how much routing it shares with web.