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I thought the section on the importance of native devs and how they're staffing mobile was really …

I thought the section on the importance of native devs and how they're staffing mobile was really interesting: "Native devs are crucial Mobile engineers who specialize in iOS and Android are essential to building great mobile apps. There is no replacing experience and taste that comes from having built many mobile products and deeply understanding conventions and usability. Being able to drop down to the platform layer, write bindings, master build & release, distribution, etc requires native expertise. They also play a vital role in optimizing app performance across the myriad of device models, ensuring a consistent user experience for all users. Additionally, native expertise is essential for managing React Native version updates, as well as adopting new features, APIs, and tooling changes that accompany new iOS and Android releases. You can't build a good product without these experts. We invested in training our native mobile developers in React Native through a self-serve course that covered everything they needed to know to ship production-ready code. …

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Probably the first "we adopted x" blog post that I can find relatable and spot-on. I think it's one of the big misconceptions that React Native is _the_ path to get your web devs or even existing code onto mobiles. That's how you get the criticism that RN builds bad, mouldy apps. Between our clients that have had this issue with quality and shops in the same space as us that haven't (one who boasts a review on one of their apps being "an example on how to build a proper fully native app"), having a good portion of native devs on the team is a big differentiator. Unfortunately this means a RN Team isn't as cheap as some hope.

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As someone who works with React Native this is definitely true. Imagine a venn diagram: Full Navive: 2 very big bubbles React Native: 2 small bubbles and one big bubble It doesn't happen very often but it can be quite annoying to implement features that need native controls on both platforms. In my case I only know native android (no ios) so when implementing native things I need to bring in an ios native dev and agree on the communication API and any platform-specific edge case before implementing stuff. It is a lot easier when I can do it all by myself and it is even harder for team members who have no native experience at all.

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