11 Stories of How React Native Apps Have Changed the World

React Native mobile development isn’t only a modern trend but a game-changing way to deliver great apps. It’s been around not so many years but apps built with React Native are already getting a lot of attention. Why? Let’s find out!

👍 What’s Behind the React Native Hype?

Now it’s obvious that React Native isn’t just a short-time fad. Not sure that the guys from Facebook who introduced this framework in 2015 expected to cause a little revolution in the mobile world.

So as not to be unsubstantiated, let’s see how React Native became super-popular in less than 5 years:

Despite this framework is relatively young, it’s already been widely used in many companies. So today we want to share 11 amazing stories of how React Native Apps changed the world. Enjoy 🙂

💬 Social Media & Messaging Apps: Instagram, Facebook, Skype

Instagram 📸

Of course, many loved to take and share pics before the Instagram era, but this app has completely сhanged the way we make pictures:

• “OMG, are people really going to photograph their food?”. What once has been an occasion for a joke, now is a usual thing.
• “Selfies, really? Who will make a photo with his face all over the screen?”. And now you can hardly find a profile without one!

Overall, the guys are optimistic about the React Native future:

At Discord, it has brought us incredibly efficiency. The overall gains significantly outweigh the costs which motivates us to keep investing in the platform.

📖 New Ways to Deliver & Consume Content: Bloomberg, Shine

Bloomberg 📰

Bloomberg is a global news agency that focuses on financial topics. And by saying global I mean GLOBAL! Just imagine:

• Their website is the 526 most visited in the whole world. If we narrow down the results to the USA only, Bloomberg.com jumps to the 187th position. And by the time you read this article, it may be even higher.
• The Bloomberg News application has over 10,000,000 downloads just on Android. This figure doesn’t include iOS users. And except for this app, Bloomberg also has 4 others.

Considering those numbers, it’s even more interesting to explore why such a huge organisation in 2016 decided to choose the one-year-old React Native framework for delivering the app.

And the result definitely was worth it:

• The whole road from the start to the first public release took slightly more than a month. How many people were engaged? Just a designer and developer!
• The large part of business logic was literally lifted from their web front to the mobile application.
• Developers at Townske were experienced in creating web products. React Native turned out to be a perfect framework for those who want to make an application having a primarily web background.

💰 New Opportunities For Businesses: UberEats, Walmart, Airbnb

UberEats 🚗

It’s not a secret that some businesses not only conquer existing markets but create their own ones. UberEats wasn’t the first food delivery company but it definitely changed some of consuming habits.

In many U.S. cities, UberEats surpassed GrubHub - a food delivery leader for many years. What once was a service for special occasions (for example, if you needed to order food for a party) became a part of everyday life.

Also, 74% of engineers would consider the framework for their new projects while 63% would have chosen it again.

You can dive into the company's reflection on their React Native experience in this series of posts on Medium.

📱 From Buying Art to Tracking Mood: Artsy, SoundCloud, Gyroscope

In this paragraph, we want to share different apps built with React Native and show that this framework is convenient for any industry and field.

Artsy 👩‍🎨

Artsy is an online platform for discovering, collecting and selling art. It opened in 2012 and just one year after Forbes said that “Artsy Is Succeeding In Putting The Art World Online”.

Since 2013, the online art sales grew up by 280%. Look:

However, the idea had caught them, and a new React Native application for iPhone was developed. Later they also delivered an Android version.

The Gyroscope application now has an average rating of 4.5 on the App Store and has been placed in the Editor’s Choice list on Google Play.

The startup & developers’ community also appreciated the result:

👨‍💻 “Nice! I started using Gyroscope a few weeks back and think it is a fantastic app. Never realised it was written in React Native, and this has prompted me to look closer at this framework for our own development work.”

🤩 “Your UIs look excellent.”

👍 “Just wanted to say - absolutely beautiful app.”

After that, we may be sure in React Native’s future 🙂

💡 Takeaways

As you could see, mobile developers are quite optimistic about React Native future:

• If you’re a developer, you may turn your eyes on this framework and give it a try. Who knows, maybe you’ll like it so much that it will become your favourite development approach.
• If you need an app for your business or startup, think of trying React Native as well. It may help you to finish the development faster, cheaper and with fewer people.

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