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A developer built a functional iPhone app in just four days using Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 AI model, showcasing rapid prototyping with AI assistance and detailing the planning and technical decisions involved.
The author announces an upcoming open-source, self-hostable alternative to Expo EAS that runs on GitHub runners, offering benefits like freedom, cost savings, and customization.
Gergely Orosz questions the use of React Native for complex mobile apps, highlighting that native development offers superior control and user experience, as exemplified by Linear's native mobile app.
Shopify is switching back to native Swift and Kotlin codebases for their mobile apps, attributing the change to AI agents now being capable of handling implementation and translation work.
React Native ExecuTorch v0.10 achieves significant speedups, up to 92x for AI models like FastSAM, with TypeScript pipelines for better inspectability and cross-platform support.
Shopify is switching back to native mobile development from React Native, as AI coding models have made building for multiple platforms more cost-effective.
EAS Observe is a performance monitoring tool for Expo and React Native apps that measures startup speed and screen usability on real devices, with device context and integration with EAS Updates.
Marc demonstrates depth-aware light injection in VisionCamera using DINOv2 and Apple Vision framework, enabling real-time rendering with react-native-webgpu.
Lobe Icons is an open-source collection of AI and LLM brand logos, available as installable npm packages and CDN assets for React, React Native, Expo, and static web projects.
Gemma 4 can now run fully offline on-device using React Native, with local hardware acceleration via Vulkan on Android and MLX on Apple Silicon, enabling vision and tool-use capabilities like reading a flyer and scheduling events entirely on-device.
An indie developer shares hard-earned lessons from over a year of experience, recommending building a WebPWA (React tech stack) first during the MVP stage to quickly validate requirements, then using React Native/Expo for the mobile app once users are acquired.
The react-native-executorch library now integrates Google's Gemma 4 model, enabling fully offline, GPU-accelerated inference in React Native apps using Vulkan on Android and MLX on Apple Silicon.
An open-source plugin introduces an audit-first workflow for AI coding agents converting web apps to native mobile apps, using a structured Markdown plan and approval gates to avoid premature coding.
ReactVision Studio enables building AR/VR apps in React Native and deploying directly to devices.
A blog post discusses how the lock-in effect of programming languages is diminishing due to the rise of coding agents, exemplified by a company rewriting native iPhone and Android apps to React Native.