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Top 8 cost deciding factors of React Native App development

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:05:57 +0000

React Native was developed during the hackathon project of Facebook by their team of developers. Later it turned out to be one of the most popular and trending frameworks for mobile app development these days. It is considered as the most powerful framework based on JavaScript used for cross-platform app development.

Easy-to-use UI, speed and efficiency are some of the top reasons what has made it one of the top mobile app development frameworks to choose from. This technology adopts some of the modern and traditional methods for the development of a hybrid mobile app.

It was not so long ago when if one thought about app creation on both Android and iOS then one would need to think of two entirely different native apps or create a hybrid app using an HTML5-based framework. The downsides were that they came with severe cost and usability issues.

Mobile apps, by the year 2023, are predicted to generate more than 935 billion U.S. dollars in revenue via in-app advertising and paid downloads (source). That’s quite encouraging and there is no wonder why there’s a gold rush to mobile application development using the globally-recognized app framework — React Native.

Some of the world-famous apps have opted for this framework- Skype, UberEATS, Instagram, Tesla, Airbnb, Tencent QQ, Walmart, SoundCloud Pulse, Baidu Mobile, etc. are some of the apps that are built on React Native framework.

The React Native app development frameworks enable developers to speed up the process by giving them a skeleton framework to work on.

Most of the businesses get started with React Native due to its flexibility and cross-platform mobile app development feature. By using this open-source framework, you can have effective mobile apps build for both Android and iOS platforms.

How Much Does React Native App Cost: The Contributing Elements

React Native framework is one of the most cost-effective frameworks present in the market. If you are on a tight budget and want to have an app, then React Native is the best option.

React Native development cost varies depending upon the complexity of the apps and the requirement. The developer experience also plays an essential role in this decision.

Some of the factors that one should consider while opting for a React Native app development are:

App complexity
User authorization
Add-ons
App design
Developer Experience
Location of dev agency
App distributions
App maintenance and support

1. App Complexity

What you expect from your React Native app project will decide the deliverables, project phases and the amount of time needed to complete it. Generally, mobile app development can take about a week to six month time for completion. A simple app will come at a lower budget and will get completed within a shorter timeline. While the complex one with many features and updates will take a long time to complete and will come at a higher budget. Every app present in the stores can be divided into three segments — Low Complexity, Medium Complexity, and High Complexity Apps. The segmentation depends on six factors:

Deployment Architecture Model — When it comes to Backend development, there are two options — Custom or BaaS. In the Custom option, clients get their own architecture while in case of BaaS, they work around a readymade backend architecture.
Admin Panel Development — It is the part which help entrepreneurs manage the app — keep track of app activity, view statistics, and update content without involving developers. The more feature-rich the admin panel, the more an app rises in the complexity chart.
Third-Party Integration — In order to be truly user friendly, your app needs to interact with other app’s functionality to ease processes like login and payment. These integrations are slightly more complex in case of React Native as compared to Native development process.
In-App Purchase — Although a good percent of apps active in the industry today have the in-app purchase functionality in one form or another, its inclusion is not easy. So the more in-app purchase options you give, the more complex your app would become.
Use of Device’s In-Built Features — The modern day range of smartphones and tablets come packed with a number of features such as Bluetooth, GPS, Nearby, Barometers, etc. which can be linked with an application to better its performance.
Integration with the Enterprise/Legacy System — Do you need an app that is standalone (means it works independently without any integration to your system) or the one that you want to integrate with any of your enterprise systems? A stand-alone app will cost a bit lesser than the integrated app because the integrations are costly. The extensions, third-party APIs, host system app modifications, etc. are involved when you consider integration with the enterprise system. These applications type by default fall under medium to high complexity scale.

2. User Authorization

If you are designing an app that doesn’t require any kind of logins or authorization, then the cost of an app will be relatively less. But the apps which require these functionalities will cost a little more as it requires the process of role-based checks that are usually set by developers. The efforts are needed from both enterprise system development team and app development team to ensure that the apps are developed and deployed perfectly.

3. Add-ons

If you are planning to build a customer-centric app, then you may wish to integrate your app with social media channels and also extend some add-ons for it. These custom add-ons are an essential facet in the pricing and cost — the in-app purchases are an extra add-on. The apps can be as vast as possible and as small as a single-page app.

4. App Design

Mobile app design encompasses both the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). An effective mobile app enables a targeted group of users to carry out a specific set of related tasks. What will keep your users engaged in your application? An app that has smooth transitions to move from one screen to another, efficient user flow and well-timed animation will help for starters. The designing of screens and user experience could be easily associated with costs.

5. Developer Experience

Developers with varied experience years are present in the market. This is a very important factor, if you want an experienced developer to work on your project, then you have to invest a good amount of money. If you are okay with a medium or less experienced developer working on your app, then the pricing will be less. The experience is going to be a major price altering factor here. Also, if you are faced with making a choice-based decision between freelancers vs. development companies — a general thumb-rule would be to consider choosing a freelancer if you have a simple project in hand with a flexible completion deadline and less budget. However, if your project is complex and you have a specific time frame, then you should consider a React Native development company.

6. Location of dev agency

In the context of mobile app development cost, location plays a significant role. When it comes to hiring React Native app developers, you may find that Eastern countries charge lesser than agencies in USA or Australia. So you may prefer outsourcing your project to reduce costs.

7. Distributions of App

There are so many distribution channels where you can deploy your app. These stores have a fixed set of pricing. The commercial stores like App Store or Google Play store will charge around $100 for developer license costs. Apps will also require permission from the host to make sure that the standards and security policies are met.

8. App Maintenance

It is unquestionable that the expenses do not end at app launch. You will have to regularly update it to keep up with users’ expectations, which cascades to user retention and engagement levels. And hence one has to consider this factor while estimating the cost. It is better to hire a company on retainer basis for some months so that everything falls in place. After that, you can just hire them to push out the updates from time to time. This will cost a lot less. When we talk about app maintenance, we mainly talk about three individual processes –

App updates
Design changes
App bug fixes

The app maintenance cost estimate is usually calculated yearly as 20% of the complete app development project.

App Templates: a middle ground cost-saving solution

A collective experience of several app development agencies says that the majority of the app development is a repeat process. This is especially relevant in today’s age where startups are often found building an ‘Uber for something’, or an ‘Instagram of something’. Even the apps which are not exactly clones are actually using similar components in them. This inevitably calls for modularization of the app development process. App templates are ready-made source-code (sometimes also called app starters), which gives a head start in app development. To know more about app templates check out this article: Future of App development — Why you should build your apps from templates.

Enappd delivers high-quality app templates, themes, and add-ons. It helps startups to make a jump start and take their business to the next level. To know more about the development process and stringent quality measures taken at Enappd, check out this link here: Enappd Store: biggest inventory of best quality iOS/Android App Templates.

Conclusion

These days most of the companies are moving forward with their projects by choosing React Native framework for the swift development of their apps. If you have a low budget and want to develop your app quickly then React Native would be the best choice. React Native app development has a definite edge in terms of the development of your app in a low budget. In this article, we get to know eight factors which decide the final price of React Native app development cost. Armed with this info one can make an informed monetary decision in all aspects of app development.

Next Steps

Now that you have learned various aspects of pricing a React Native app, you can also try the following:

React Native life cycle hooks
How To integrate in React Native — Image picker| Integrate Firebase
Create Awesome Apps in React Native using Full App
Firebase Push notifications in React Native Apps
10 Awesome React Native UI Component Libraries You Should Know

You can consider making your next app in React Native by making use of the following templates:

React Native Full App

React Native Grocery Shopping Starter — Enappd

Spotify style app / Music streaming app starter (React Native) — Enappd

React Native Taxi / Cab Booking app Template

React Native Ecommerce App Template

Enappd Store: biggest inventory of best quality iOS/Android App Templates

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:30:05 +0000

Enappd delivers high-quality app templates, themes, and add-ons for you to jump-start your startup, or take your business to the next level with an awesome app while saving thousands of dollars and weeks of time. Our mission is to enable everyone to be able to create beautiful apps. If you are a developer, you don’t need to waste time on UI. Just pick your app starter from Enappd and jump-start your development.

A collective experience of several app development agencies says that the majority of the app development is a repeat process. This is especially relevant in today’s age where startups are often found building an ‘Uber for something’, or an ‘Instagram of something’. Even the apps which are not exactly clones are actually using similar components in them. With the growing rise in app-based startups, it is imperative for developers to use a modular way of app development which costs least time and money. That is where app templates/starters come in.

An app template is simply the UI of the app made in a particular language. This can be Android, iOS or hybrid technology. A starter, on the other hand, includes features more than UI, e.g. A Taxi booking app which allows you to create a booking and accept booking on the Driver side, is not just a template, it is a starter.

Following are the major advantages of using an app template from Enappd Store:

Cheaper — You save thousands of dollars spent in UI development. This is a crucial phase where a majority of startups end up spending most of their time and money. Designing a feature from scratch is not worth if you can just pick the feature off the shelf in a fraction of the price
Faster — You save weeks (if not months) of time which you would otherwise spend on designing and developing your app’s UI. Faster time to market is often the deal maker for an app startup.
Keep your team smaller — If you are an early-stage startup, and the co-founders are not developers, it is not wise to hire separate developers for UI designing, and then UI development on different devices. Using a hybrid app (same technology for both iOS and Android) halves your problem, but you would still love to have an off-the-shelf template. This way you can jump to feature integration directly and keep your team smaller
Standard and Bug-free — One of the biggest advantages of using Enappd’s app template is the standard feature and code structure. It is often found that the founding team develops the app with whatever they know. This results in a badly written (although working) code. Instead, you can purchase an off-the-shelf code written with proper standards, and mostly bug-free. You cut costs, save time and get better quality code.
Standard features — Other than great code standards, you get standard features already working and device tested in Enappd templates. For example, tinder card format has been a popular layout for the past many years. Creating the layout on your own from scratch is not worth if you can just pick it up from an app template, such as Ionic 4 Full App.

Imagine you are set out to build an ‘Uber for something’, and you get the full app UI off the shelf. You can then plug in your logic, your product, and your back-end into the app and get it ready for the app store. This way you save a ton on your development cost.

At Enappd we build app templates using ❤, also there is a lot more to find out about Enappd. So, let’s dive right in:

Process

The process followed at Enappd is SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). It consists of the following activities:

Planning: The most important parts of software development, requirement gathering or requirement analysis is usually done by the most skilled and experienced software engineers in the organization. After the requirements are gathered as per the market research, a scope document is created in which the scope of the project is determined and documented.
Implementation: The software engineers start writing the code according to the requirements documented.
Testing: This is the process of finding defects or bugs in the created Template.
Documentation: Extensive setup and usage documentation for major starters is provided along with the product.
Deployment: The app template is made available on Enappd store after it gets approved in review for release by another senior developer from a different team.

Platforms

Currently, the templates/starters at Enappd are available in three technologies i.e Ionic, React Native and Flutter framework. All three technologies allow you to build mobile apps for both iOS and Android. All three are great frameworks because they allow developers to quickly prototype and publish apps on multiple platforms with single source code. The first great thing is — you can publish apps without the need to learn Swift, Objective-C, Java or Kotlin! Instead, you’ll use JavaScript (for React Native, and Ionic) and Dart (for Flutter). Hence you’re able to create native apps for both platforms with one language instead of two — this obviously reduces the learning effort you have to take to build your mobile app by a lot!

All these frameworks are best at their own. While choosing a framework for your cross-platform app development, you need to analyze many factors like budget, time, application size, platforms, and so on.

Hybrid apps have been the sensation in recent years and for a good reason. With their ease of development, powerful performance and versatile usage possibility, Hybrid apps beat Native apps at many frontiers.

Automated Testing

Since we are dealing with app starter that uses lots of ever-changing technologies like ionic, react native, etc. and their dependencies, it becomes imperative for us to ensure that the starters remain bug-free for a long time. Changing dependencies have always caused issues to developers, and it is almost impossible to keep track of every changing dependencies, even with npm or yarn. To make sure we keep the starters bug free, we have implemented an Automated Test Routine using Jenkins Server and Continuous Integration (CI) methodology. In simple words, our server will test the products Every Day, yes, every day. And it will report to us and all website users in real-time if the starter is passing the test. Amazing, right? Following image displays the process in a nut-shell

We have implemented this to assure our users that our products are built with the highest quality standards, and changing technology effects are being tested regularly.

How can I believe it is a valid test ?
We display a build passing image in the PRODUCT STATUS widget, right next to product description. It looks something like this

This is the same notation every major code repository on Github uses to show their build status. E.g. REACT NATIVE uses the same process to display the status of their Github repository.

Automated build testing ensures:

The code clears all linting criteria
The starter code is bug-free
The starter code is able to create a Store Deployable Android APK
Users and Enappd developers get real-time information of the product status so that a bug-free product can be maintained

MNOP tested

iOS 6, X tested

However, all our products are also tested for Android M, N, O, P version as well as iOS 6, 10.

Support

At Enappd we care for our users and so we have put Live Chat support on our site. It helps people to clear even tiny size doubts before putting their money on making the purchase. I am sure people who have interacted with us on Live Chat would agree that what bliss in life this facility is, they get to solve their queries and lots of heavy geeky doubts over here. We either troubleshoot their issues right away or we direct them to in-detailed articles of Enappd and other super awesome tutorials. And it's obvious now, that we provide mail support as well. You can reach out to us on the medium of your preference. Be assured of prompt response, i.e. no forever long waiting times.

Videos

Screenshot of videos on our Ionic 4 Full App Starter

Videos explaining the flow in a very quick fashion can be found on the product page of most major templates/starters. Thviis video helps you to see the product right in the action in a very quick way. You can also share this video easily with someone and get a quick review before making the purchase. Also, in some products, you get Mac/Windows installation videos too.

Tech Specs

Tech Specs on Ionic 4 Netflix App Template on Enappd

The tech specs in which the particular app template/starter functions in a flawless manner is listed on all products page. Refer to it for a hassle-free speedy execution.

Free Upgrades

Regular updates are made to the app templates/starters as soon as the new version of the tech is released. This update is provided free of cost, a new zip file is uploaded in the user’s Enappd account. Also users are informed about the updated zip file in their account through mail. If some drastic or big changes are made in the tech then it is not possible to make it work just by making some minor changes, it requires app to built from scratch again and user might have to purchase a new product in that case.

Documentation

It is one of the most important part, proper step by step instructions are quintessential, it saves time and stop unnecessary waste of energy in figuring out things i.e. it prevents reinventing the wheel from the scratch.

Demo

You can download demo APK from the product page and run the app in your own mobile phone before making the purchase. For React Native templates/starters you also get the option to scan the QR code from the Expo app and it just runs right there. It is as smooth as it can get. You can interact with the app and visit all the pages and see for yourself the craftsmanship that has been put into the product.

Blog

In-detailed articles on all the latest techs, their various types of integration, form the very basic to very advanced. In advanced articles, you will find reference of articles explaining simple basic steps, all those steps where you can get stuck are covered in our exhaustive list of articles. All the articles are updated regularly with the new emerging technologies to make them stay meaningful and helpful with changing times.

Freebies

Enappd provides free starters for beginners and experts to jump-start their development. Play around with them, make your own changes and see how they fare out. These all are high-quality starter app templates and you can integrate them in your own Ionic 4 Apps to enhance their functionality in no time. You will find blog links along with many of them which offer pro-level understanding.

Conclusion

Whether you are a freelancer or an app development agency, these starters are going to save you thousands of dollars in each project. There is no denying that the app development world is changing, and we as a company is evolving as well. Enappd is soon launching a marketplace, keeping the developers in mind. At marketplace you will be able to upload your templates and start earning right from your first step. Enappd’s mission is to bring together the developer community on a single platform where they can achieve higher goals by working coherently towards a unified vision.

Ionic vs React Native: Which one is better?

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:10:55 +0000

While looking to develop mobile apps with other than the native toolsets, I found myself evaluating Ionic and React Native as two of the most common alternatives. Both have a large community of passionate developers, are used heavily in large enterprises, and can lay claim to many popular consumer apps.

In this post, I will try to compare — Ionic and React Native framework. Both technologies allow you to build mobile apps for iOS as well as Android. After extensive research, I would say these two are great frameworks because they allow developers to quickly prototype and publish apps on multiple platforms with single source code.

The reason why I am writing this is that it is often asked — “What platform should I select for my enterprise app development?”. Though it is for most of the time very specific, we can still layout (or at least try!) some general guidelines to better decide.

The first great thing is — you can publish apps without the need to learn Swift, Objective-C, Java or Kotlin! Instead, you’ll use JavaScript for React Native and Ionic. Hence you’re able to create native apps for both platforms with one language instead of two — this obviously reduced a lot of learning effort for me to build my mobile apps.

Great! So how do these technologies differ, which one is the best choice for your next mobile project? Let’s take a look…

What is Ionic 4?

Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013. Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass. Apps can be built with these Web technologies and then distributed through native app stores to be installed on devices by leveraging Cordova.

So, in other words — If you create Native apps in Android, you code in Java. If you create Native apps in iOS, you code in Obj-C or Swift. Both of these are powerful but complex languages. With Cordova (and Ionic) you can write a single piece of code for your app that can run on both iOS and Android (and windows!), that too with the simplicity of HTML, CSS, and JS.

What Is React Native?

React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing real, natively rendering mobile applications for iOS and Android. It’s based on React, Facebook’s JavaScript library for building user interfaces, but instead of targeting the browser, it targets mobile platforms. In other words: web developers can now write mobile applications that look and feel truly “native,” all from the comfort of a JavaScript library that we already know and love. Plus, because most of the code you write can be shared between platforms, React Native makes it easy to simultaneously develop for both Android and iOS.

Similar to React for the Web, React Native applications are written using a mixture of JavaScript and XML markup, known as JSX. Then, under the hood, the React Native “bridge” invokes the native rendering APIs in Objective-C (for iOS) or Java (for Android). Thus, your application will render using real mobile UI components, not webviews, and will look and feel like any other mobile application. React Native also exposes JavaScript interfaces for platform APIs, so your React Native apps can access platform features like the phone camera, or the user’s location.

React Native currently supports both iOS and Android and has the potential to expand to future platforms as well. In this blog, we’ll cover both iOS and Android. The vast majority of the code we write is cross-platform. And yes: you can really use React Native to build production-ready mobile applications! Some example: Facebook, Palantir, and TaskRabbit are already using it in production for user-facing applications.

Hybrid Mobile Apps vs. Native Apps: A Popular Debate

Before we start, here’s something important you should consider. Ionic is a framework for hybrid mobile app development and React Native is a cross-platform framework to build native apps.

Native apps are built in a specific language for a specific platform. For example, when you write code in Objective C for the iOS platform or use Java for Android, then the application is called as a native app. The main advantage of native app development is superior performance. Contradictory to this, hybrid applications are web applications that use web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to develop an application. To provide native experience and access to native features of Android, iOS, or any other platform, it uses PhoneGap/Cordova platforms.

Parameters

To decide which one is better for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development, I chose to define some parameters, on the basis of which I will try to make a clear comparison. And, those are:

Language Stack
Do not repeat yourself(DRY)
Rich pre-styled Component Library
Performance
User Interface
Ecosystem / Third-Party Libraries
Market and Community
Accessing Native Device Features
Supported Platforms
Popular Apps
Pricing
Maintainability

1. The Language Stack

With this metric, I want to explore which framework utilizes which programming languages and offer what benefits:

React Native: It utilizes JavaScript which is at present one of the most popular, dynamic and high-level programming language. It combines the advantages of JavaScript and React.JS and is backed by Facebook.

The solid side of React Native that makes it best among the other three frameworks in terms of PL is that it allows writing a few components in Swift, Objective-C or Java when developers require them. Utilizing native modules and libraries in React Native applications, you can manage computationally heavy operations like video handling or image editing.

Ionic framework: It uses HTML5, CSS, and JS to develop and run applications, and requires Cordova wrapper to access native platform controllers. Utilizing IONIC, you can also use TypeScript that improves the quality of the code.

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the advantages offered by their programming languages:

React Native (React)
Ionic Framework (Angular)

2. Do not repeat yourself (DRY)

With this metric, I want to explore how much of the code we write can be re-used for both platforms.

Ionic: Awesome re-usability! The “wrapped web app” concept ensures that you can easily re-use your code — you’re just building a wrapped web app in the end. The great component library of adaptive components (i.e. automatically styled for the platform the app runs on) also helps.

React Native: Also compiles to native defaults but only provides a basic set of components to start with. You have to style most of them on your own, hence more work is required to achieve appropriate styles on both platforms. Generally, code can be re-used though (since you still only use one language and libraries like Redux need no adjustment).

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the Code Reusability

Ionic Framework
React Native

3. Rich pre-styled Component Library

How easy is it to build beautiful UIs? Do you have to create and style a lot of components (UI elements) on your own or do you have a rich suite of pre-built ones? Are the components adapting to the underlying platform automatically? That’s what this metric is about.

Ionic: Ionic in its core is a big set of pre-built (and pre-styled) components. The compiler/ toolchain which yields a native app is also part of the Ionic package (handled via its CLI) but it utilizes other packages like Cordova or Capacitor. The components provided by Ionic automatically adapt to the platform the app runs on and therefore, Ionic makes the creation of beautiful, native-looking apps a breeze!

React Native: A decent set of built-in components is provided but a lot of them need to be styled by you. And they’re non-adaptive, instead — just as with Flutter — you get alternatives for both operating systems. That requires adjustments in your code, where you have to choose, use and style widgets conditionally.

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the pre-styled Component Library

Ionic Framework
React Native

4. Performance

This metric is the most important one and speaks for itself — how do the apps made in different frameworks perform from a run-time performance perspective?

React Native: The performance it provides is very similar to native applications as it renders code elements specifically to the native APIs. React additionally allow developers to use native modules written in native languages to write code for complicated operations. However, they can’t be reused across two platforms; their main purpose is to provide higher performance.

Ionic: In terms of performance, Ionic loses the game. Its performance isn’t as similar to React Native or flutter offers since it utilizes web technologies to render an application. This approach significantly decreases the speed. Also, it doesn’t utilize native components and tries to create a native look and feel by using web technologies.

The upside of Ionic is its quick testing process that runs instantly in a browser that streamlines the development process.

Ionic offers a poorer performance among these 3 as it’s a wrapped web app in the end. But this is often misunderstood! “Worse” sounds extremely bad but “worse” doesn’t actually mean “horrible” or even “bad”. Instead, you got worse performance than with the other approaches. In fact, on the devices we got these days, your app will probably run more than smooth! If you only (imaginary!) got 100fps instead of 105fps — would you notice a difference? You wouldn’t, so keep Ionic in your mind for your next app!

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the performance they offer:

React Native
Ionic

5. User Interface

Users judge apps within the first few seconds of usage and that’s why GUI of an app must be engaging while being easy — let’s see what these frameworks offer:

React Native: React Native modules associated with native UI controllers, which gives amazing user experience that is very close to native apps. It additionally utilizes the ReactJS library with extensive UI elements and streamlines the UI development.

Ionic: Ionic UI doesn’t utilize native elements at all and renders everything in HTML and CSS. Then it applies Cordova to give native mobile experience. Angular components that accompany the framework also enable Ionic apps look like the native ones.

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the UI they offer:

React Native
Ionic

6. Ecosystem / Third-Party Libraries

What does the ecosystem look like? Is it easy to find help (on Stackoverflow etc) and are there enough third-party libraries available to add that one feature your app needs?

Ionic: Ionic uses JavaScript for its logic — and whilst you can use it with any (or no) JavaScript framework, it provides especially great support for Angular. Therefore, you benefit from these ecosystems. And the JavaScript, as well as the Angular ecosystem, is huge! Thousands of threads on Stackoverflow and packages on npm help you solve your problems.

React Native: It uses JavaScript and React, hence you got those ecosystems available. Additionally, React Native on its own has quite a vibrant ecosystem and community, hence you find many threads on Stackoverflow and a lot of third-party packages that add missing functionalities. A downside is that you often need to rely on the ecosystem (like plugins, starters etc.) since only core features are included in React Native itself. React Native’s ecosystem in not as strong as others, and often keeps changing or the third-party plugins can’t keep pace with changing React Native

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the Ecosystem / Third-Party Libraries

Ionic
React Native

7. Market and Community

Having a dynamic ecosystem is something worth being thankful for — but it matters how popular is an option? Let’s see:

React Native: React Native is the king when it comes to market and community recognition. The network of its developers is quickly growing and as of now has many experienced React Native Engineers. This makes it easy to kick start a React project. It utilizes an amazingly popular library (React) and the most essential web development language (JavaScript) and provides real native applications. These qualities make it a strong platform and are the reasons behind its fame.

Ionic: It is the second most popular framework after React. It empowers developers to build native mobile apps in the fastest possible way. Ionic has a huge community support, as well as a great marketplace where you can find a lot of starters and templates to jump start any app from Uber to Spotify.

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on their industry recognition and reliability:

React Native
Ionic

8. Accessing Native Device Features

Your mobile apps most likely need access to some native device feature like the camera or GPS. How easy is it to get that access? And how easy is it for relatively new features (e.g. AR APIs provided by Android/ iOS)?

Ionic: Ionic uses Cordova or its own solution, Capacitor, to give you access to native device features. It provides a very decent set of packages to access common native device functionalities like the camera. You can also write your own wrappers around native functionalities and then include them in your code of course. Also, Ionic/Cordova and/or Angular plugins are very stable, and update readily with platform updates.

React Native: Being the most popular solution, you find a rich set of third-party packages as well as some built-in APIs for accessing native platform functionalities. Relying on third-party packages (which you mostly have to do) of course has the disadvantage that the core maintainers of that package might quit, hence the support is not on the same level as it is with Ionic or NativeScript.

Here is how you can rank these frameworks based on the Accessing Native Device Features :

React Native
Ionic

9. Supported Platforms

React Native: Android 4.1+ , iOS 8+

Ionic: Android 4.4+ , iOS 8+ , Windows 10

10. Popular Apps

React Native: Facebook, Instagram, UberEats, Airbnb (they later removed RN from usage. Read More here — Why Airbnb left React Native)

Ionic: JustWatch, Pacifica, Nationwide and many more.

11. Pricing

React Native: Completely open-source frameworks. Engineers can utilize this system and their libraries for free.

Ionic: It is a free open source framework for developing cross-platform mobile applications. But, the organization offers its Pro Development Environment which is paid. The company guarantees that Ionic Pro accelerates the development process.

12. Maintainability

With React native any 3rd party library that you might use could get outdated or become incompatible with your updated codebase. Hence, maintainability remains a big issue.

As opposed to React native, you would only require maintaining one single app in Ionic(you had to maintain iOS and Android builds in React native).

However, the biggest challenge with the maintainability of Ionic apps is that the framework itself is undergoing continuous changes with frequent release cycles on Ionic and Cordova.

Conclusion

If it requires you to deliver high performing apps which are closed in giving the native performance of users, then React Native will be the best option for you. On the other hand, if your project requirement allows you to deliver a decent performing app which looks like native to users then you can always go with the Ionic framework. It all depends on the project requirement. In case of any further questions, feel free to comment or get in touch.

Next Steps

Now that you have learned the major differences between Ionic framework and React Native for mobile app development, you can consider going through some of the topics below:

How To in React Native — Image picker| Integrate Firebase | Push notifications | Geolocation | Life cycle hooks
How To in Ionic — Image picker| Integrate Firebase | Push notifications | Geolocation | Video Player| RTL
Create Awesome Apps in React Native using Full App
Create Awesome Apps in IONIC 4 using Full App

If you need a base to start your next Ionic 4 app, you can make your next awesome app using Ionic 4 Full App

If you need a base to start your next React Native app, you can make your next awesome app using React Native Full App

Ionic 4 Netflix Clone Video Streaming App Template: Features Overview

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:06:18 +0000

The days of having to tune in live or buy expensive discs in order to watch your favorite shows and movies are gone. Now, you can simply boot up one of the best streaming services, and watch your favorite movies and shows on-demand. One of the most popular service overall is Netflix, offering an excellent selection of TV shows, movies and original programming.

TeeVee — An Ionic 4 Video streaming App Template is a mobile app theme/template with Netflix style UI. With this template kit, you can build a complete working video-streaming and downloading application to provide the streaming services to people at an extremely convenient way. With this template, you can create video streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, Hotstar, etc.

This template is the front-end part, which means the screens and user interfaces (screens) are ready. You can easily change the screens, styles, and logics to suit your requirements. To make it a live app like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, Hotstar, etc. you just need to add a back-end to the app, and load your data in the back-end.

Netflix….and Chill!

You can use the screens coded in this app, navigation between the screens and specific functions applied to buttons, etc. This saves your 100% cost and time in front-end UI development. You can simply add a back-end/server to this app template, and replace the demo data with data coming from your server. This way, you only spend time and money on back-end development and a bit on front-end data integration.

This template is made in Ionic 4 language. With Ionic 4, you can

Create iOS and an Android app (and a Progressive Web App as well) with a single source code
Cut your project cost and time in half (or further if you are making a PWA)
Ensure exact same UI in iOS and Android, while following the standard UI norms
Saves you from doing separate updates for each app (iOS and Android) in future, hence saves time

Features of this template

Screens

Login
This page can be accessed from the Signup page as the app loads. By clicking on the sign-in button at the top right of the header, after the required entries in the input field, it redirects you to the home page.The login page can be used to perform login action with username/email and password. Currently, the login is only for demo purposes.The login page also contains “Need Help” and “Signup” page navigations.

Signup — Load
This page can be accessed as the app loads. By clicking on the “Join Free For A Month” button it redirects you to the Plan page. The signup page can be used to register a user with a username/email and password. Currently, the signup is only for demo purposes. The signup page also contains “Login page “ page and “Help” page navigations.

Signup — Choose a Plan
This page can be accessed from the signup loading page by clicking on the Join Free For a Month button at the bottom of the page. This page navigates to the Plan List page.

Signup — Plan List
This page can be accessed from the choose a plan page by clicking on the set the plan button at the bottom of the page.
This page navigates to the Create an account page.

Signup — Create an account
This page can be accessed from the select a plan List page by clicking on the set the plan button at the top of the page and after selection by clicking on the continue button at the bottom of the page.
This page navigates to the Payment setup page.

Signup — Payment setup page
This page can be accessed from the create an account page by clicking on the continue button at the bottom of the page. This page contains the payment methods for the subscription of the application.
This page navigates to the Home page.

Home

This page can be accessed from the Payment setup page by clicking on the Start Membership button at the bottom of the page, or if you login to the app directly from Login screen. This page contains the previews, Top Picks, and many other categories in the vertical direction. This layout is similar to Netflix’s latest layout. Each category contains multiple types or categories in the horizontal direction and is scrollable. This page navigates to the Previews, Full video, Movie details, TV Shows, Movies and My List pages. Home page contains the nested segments and tabs in the page.

Home — Previews
This page can be accessed from the Home page by clicking on each of the preview cards image arranged in the horizontal line as scrollable content on the home page. This page contains videos previews in a story format, very similar to Netflix, Whatsapp and Instagram stories.
This page navigates to the movie information page.

Home — Categories
This is the first tab of the app. This page can be accessed after a successful login or sign up. this page contains multiple categories of video streaming arranged in horizontal rows. Each row contains scrollable items in the horizontal rows.
By clicking on any item of any particular category navigates you to the detailed information of the movie page.

Home — Categories — Movie information
This page can be accessed from the first tab of the application by clicking on any item of any particular categories.
This page contains the complete information of the movies or shows streaming on TEEVEE.
This page contains segments including
1. EPISODES
2. TRAILER
3. MORE LIKE THIS

Home — Categories — Movie information — EPISODE
This page contains all the episode of the particular season of the series or TV shows. This page also has a share icon which can be used to share the page content among the network of yours.

Home — Categories — Movie information — TRAILERS
This page contains all the upcoming movies or TV Shows trailers of the particular season of the series or TV shows. By clicking on any of the trailers, this will navigate to the video player.

Home — Categories — Movie information — More Like This
This page contains the recommended video or episodes related to your search or preferences in the application. By clicking on any recommended card, it will navigate to the movie information page.

Search — Popular Searches
This is the second tab of the application. This page contains random searches in the application. By clicking on the image of a particular item it navigates to that search item details and by clicking on the play icon of the particular image of the item it navigates to the video player.

Search — Custom Search
This page can be accessed from the second tab of the application by writing more than three words in the search box. By clicking on any item of the page will navigate to the movie or show information page.
Here this is only UI demonstration but you can integrate back-end and make it dynamic.

Coming Soon
This is the third tab of the application. This tab contains all the upcoming movie trailers and short videos. By clicking on any of the movies it plays the video.

Downloads
This is the fourth tab of the application. This tab contains the list of downloaded videos, movies or TV Shows in the application. If you don’t have any video downloaded then this will contain a button to navigate you to the downloadable contains.
This page contains a smart downloadable toggle to enable and disable smart download service.

Downloads — Smart Downloads
This page can be accessed from the downloads tab by clicking on the “Smart Download ON” button in the header of the page.
This page contains detailed information about the smart download.

More
This is the fifth and last tab of the application. This tab contains all the functions of the app including: —

Manage Profiles
Refer a Friend
Notifications
My List
App Settings
Help
Sign Out

More — Manage Profiles
This is the fifth tab and the first content of this application. This page contains the currently available users for the application. Here a user can edit the user details by clicking on any of the user profile delete the user from the application.

More — Manage Profiles — Edit profile
This page can be accessed from the applications fifth tab by clicking on the manage profile and inside manage profile click on any user to edit details. Here a user can edit his/her own or other users detail in the application can save that.

More — Notifications
This can be accessed from the more page by clicking on the notifications.
This page contains the notifications of upcoming movies or episodes or Tv Series. This page contains the notification as list items in the vertical direction of the page. By clicking on any item in the navigations it will redirect you to the notified item details. To enable and disable mobile notifications, you will first need a Push notifications system in your back-end. If you are using Firebase — implementing, enabling and disabling push notification is very easy compared to a custom back-end. Read more about Firebase- Ionic push notification here. You will first need a Push notifications system in your back-end. If you are using Firebase — implementing, enabling and disabling push notification is very easy compared to a custom back-end. Read more about Firebase- Ionic push notification here.

More — My List
This page can be accessed from the more page in the application by clicking on the “My List”. This page contains the selected or shortlisted movies, shows, series or any item within the application shortlisted by the user.
By clicking on the list item it will navigate to the item details page.

More — App Settings
This page can be accessed by clicking on the settings on the more page. In any app, settings page plays an important role in setting user’s preferences and requirement, here user can set the preferences for Push Notification, Email Notifications, download quality, device, storage, account, data usage and many more. This page allows you to toggle some preferences and navigates to other pages to select choices. This page allows the user to select Cellular Data Usage, Allows Notifications Toggle, and download video quality. We can select and set any setting from the list of settings arranged in the vertical direction. This is the only UI for the demo purpose.

More — Help
This page can be accessed from the more page by clicking on the “Help”. This page contains all the help regarding the application account cancellation, payment method update, connection issues, etc.

Social Sharing
Providing Social Sharing features is where you can share using your app. This template does have a Social Sharing plugin functionality but only for demo purpose. You can enter your own share URLs, text, images etc to share whatever you want.

Video Player
This feature allows us to watch the video in ionic 4 apps very easily. It gives us the facility to play/pause, seek, show/hide controllers and many more. In our app, we have implemented video rotate functionality — if you want to watch the video in landscape mode, you would only need to click on the rotate icon in the video screen.

Payments
You can implement the payments by using any one or multiple of the following for TeeVee subscription.

Ionic PayPal
Ionic Stripe
Ionic in-app purchase
Ionic Apple Pay and Android Pay
Ionic Razorpay
PhonePe
GooglePay
AmazonPay

Conclusions

In this article, we got to know in quick fashion about all the screens and features of “Ionic 4 Netflix style video streaming app template -TeeVee” from Enappd. Speedier internet connections and an abundance of video streaming devices have accelerated the decline of traditional cable. More and more viewers are cutting the cord entirely in favor of dedicated streaming alternatives. This starter can be a very useful and time-saving starting point for freelancers and so provide great value at a fraction of the price if one goes for the custom development from scratch.

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Ionic 4 Car Pooling App Starter — Features Overview

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:07:15 +0000

Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Growing population lead to more vehicles on the road thus increasing traffic congestion and pollution.

Carpool is carpooling or ride-sharing app template built in Ionic 4. With this template, you can create apps like BlaBla Car, UberPool, Ola Share, etc. With this starter kit, you can build a full working cab booking and sharing application to provide services to the people at an extremely convenient way, You only have to integrate a back-end server to make it fully functional.

How can I use this template

This template is a ready-made front-end template for a carpooling and ride-sharing App. You can use the screens coded in this app, navigation between the screens and specific functions applied to buttons, etc. This saves your 100% cost and time in front-end UI development. You can simply add a back-end/server to this app template, and replace the demo data with data coming from your server. This way, you only spend time and money on back-end development. You can easily change the screens, styles, and logics to suit your requirements. To make it a live app like BlaBla Car, UberPool, ToGo, Uber Eats, and Ola Share, etc. you just need to add a back-end to the app, and load your data in the back-end.

This template is made in IONIC 4 language. With IONIC 4, you can

Create iOS and an Android app with a single source code
Cut your project cost and time in half
Ensure exact same UI in iOS and Android, while following the standard UI norms
Saves separate updates for each app in future

Features of this template

Screens

Landing
You will get this screen as the app loads successfully after the splash screen timeout. Here you are provided with two options on this screen one is log in and another one is signup. If a user already exists then he/she may opt for login or if he/she has no account on this application then the user will have to create an account by clicking on the signup button.
This page navigates you to the login page and signup page. Here this page only UI for demo purpose but you can make it a fully working application by integrating backend to it with the help of a good backend developer.

Login
This page can be accessed from the Landing page as the app loads. By clicking on the login button after the required entries in the input field it redirects you to the home page. The login page can be used to perform login action with username/email and password. Currently, the login is only for demo purposes. The login page also contains “Forgot Password” and “Signup” page navigations.

Signup
This page can be accessed as the app loads. By clicking on the signup button it redirects you to the Home page. The signup page can be used to register a user with a username/email and password. Currently, the signup is only for demo purposes. The signup page also contains “Login page “ page navigations.

Forgot Password
This page can be accessed from the “Login” page. Forgot Password page can be used to send a reset password URL or OTP to the user’s email or any other way you want to use. Currently, this page is only UI. The email sent to the user can be verified from their mail and the user may be asked to provide a new password.

Home
This is the first tab of the application. This page can be accessed after a successful login by a registered user for the application. Home page contains two segments “CURRENT ” and “HISTORY” at the top of the page after the header. The current segment has options to OFFER A RIDE and FIND A RIDE options for a user. The history segment has the details of all the rides taken in the past. By clicking on any one options in the current segment, it will navigate to the Offer a ride page or Find a ride page.

History
This is the first tab’s second segment of the application. This page can be accessed by clicking on the second segment “History” in the application. This page contains all the information about previous rides.

Offer Ride — Pick-up
This page can be accessed by clicking on offer a ride button on the home page. Here you can search for a pickup location of your choice or bu clicking on use current location to access your current location with the help of Ionic geolocation plugin.
This page navigates you to your pickup location’s view on the pickup map page.

Offer Ride > Pick-up > Map
This page can be accessed by clicking on any of the locations in pickup page. This page depicts the exact pick-up location on the map. This page navigates to the drop-off page.

Offer Ride — Drop-off
This page can be accessed by clicking on the arrow forward button on the pick-up-map page. Here you can select your drop location same as the pickup location. This page navigates to drop-off map view page.

Offer Ride — Drop-off — Map
This page can be accessed by clicking on any of the locations in drop-off page. This page depicts the exact drop location on the map. This page navigates to the add stopover page.

Add Stopover
This page can be accessed by clicking on the arrow forward button on the drop-off-map page. Here you can select your stopover in-between the journey. This page navigates to map view page of your complete ride.

Add Stopover — Complete journey on the map
This page can be accessed by clicking on the confirm button on the Add Stopover page. This page shows the map view of the journey.
This page navigates to the calendar page.

Calendar page
This page can be accessed by clicking on the Good for me button on the journey map view after the stopover selection. Here we can select the date of departure for your ride.
This page navigates you to the Select Time page.

Select time page
This page can be accessed by clicking on the arrow-forward button on the select date page. Here we can select the time of departure for the ride.
This page navigates to the comfort page.

Comfort page
This page can be accessed after the pickup time selection. this page navigates you to the total no of carpool passenger’s page.

Total passengers
This page can be accessed after comfort page by clicking on any button on that page. Here you can select the total number of passengers that you can take with you for the ride.
This page navigates you to the permission page to verify either passenger booking instantly or not ?.

Permission to book by Passengers instantly
This page can be accessed after total passengers page by clicking on the arrow-forward button at the right end of the page.
This page navigates you to the recommended price per se seat page.

Recommended price per seat
This page can be accessed after the permission page.
This page navigates to the don’t agree or confirmation price page.

Price Edit
This page can be accessed after the recommended price page. This page navigates to the edit price page.

Price Amount Enter
This page can be accessed from the don’t agree page. Here you can edit the price of the journey. This page navigates you to the return trip page.

Return Trip Plan
This page can be accessed from the edit price page. This page navigates to the return journey plan Calender.

Return Trip Plan date selector
This page can be accessed from the return trip plan confirmation page. Here you can select the return date of the journey. This page navigates to the return time page.

Select return time
This page can be accessed by clicking on the arrow-forward button on the select return date page. Here we can select the return time of pick for the ride.
This page navigates to message for the passenger’s page.

Message for the passengers
This page can be accessed after the return time page. Here on this page, the user can add some messages or instructions about his/her ride. This page navigates to the ride confirmation page.

Offer Ride Confirmation
This page can be accessed after complete ride information. This page navigates to the Home page current segment.

Home Page — Current segment — offered rides
This page can be accessed after filling and selecting all the details from the “OFFER A RIDE” to “RIDE CONFIRMATION”. This page contains the navigation to journey and stops page.

Home Page — Current segment — offered rides — Journey and Stops
This page can be accessed by clicking on the card in the home page.
This page navigates to:-
1. Journey & Stops
2. Passenger contribution
3. Passenger Options
4: Delete Offered Journey

Offered Rides — Journey and Stops — Journey & stops details
This page can be accessed from the Journey & Stops. this page contains the details of the offered journey.

Offered Rides — Journey and Stops — Passenger contribution
This page can be accessed from the Journey & Stops. This page contains the details of the price offered for the journey. Here you can edit the price and save that.

Offered Rides — Journey and Stops — Passenger options
This page can be accessed from the Journey & Stops. This page contains the details of the passengers offered for the journey. Here you can edit the number of passengers and message for the passengers and save that.

Offered Rides — Journey and Stops — Delete Offered Journey
This page can be accessed from the Journey & stops page by clicking on the delete button at the bottom of the page. This page navigates to the first tab’s first segment.

Find a ride
This is the second tab of the application. This page navigates to the: —

Destination location
Pickup Location
Date and time selection

Find a ride — Pickup Location
This page can be accessed by clicking on the Pickup location in the second tab of the application. In this page, we can select the pickup location of our’s using google place prediction.
This page navigates back to find a ride page.

Find a ride — Destination Location
This page can be accessed by clicking on the Destination location in the second tab of the application. In this page, we can select the destination location of our’s with the help google place prediction.
This page navigates back to find a ride page.

Find a ride — Date and Time
These pages can be accessed by clicking on the Date and Time button on the Find a ride page to select the date and time for the ride. This page navigates back to find a ride page. In find ride page after selecting all the information this page navigates to the available rides page by clicking on the search.

Find a ride — Available rides
This page can be accessed by clicking on the search on the second tabs of the application after filling/selecting all the required details of the ride. By selecting any ride it navigates to the ride details page.
Find a ride — Available rides details
This page can be accessed by clicking on any card in the available rides page. The page contains detailed information about the available ride. This page navigates to the total riding passenger’s page.

Find a ride — Total passengers count
This page can be accessed by clicking on the “CONTINUE” at the bottom of the available ride details page.
This page navigates to the “Book” page.

Find a ride — Book ride page
This page can be accessed from the total passenger’s count by clicking on the arrow-forward button at the bottom right most of the page. This page navigates to the “Booking confirmation” page.

Find a ride — Booking confirmation
These pages can be accessed from the “Book ride” page. This page processes the progress for booking confirmation.
This page navigates to the ride booked confirmation page.

Find a ride — Ride Booked
This is the last page of the find a ride flow. This page navigates back to the find ride page after successful ride booking.

Inbox
This is the fourth tab of this application. This page contains the nesting of tabs and segments. This page has two segments at the top of the page below the header as “MESSAGES” and “NOTIFICATION”.This is the first segment of the inbox tabs.
This page navigates to the Chat page.

Inbox — Messages-Chat
This page can be accessed by clicking on any chat contact in the “MESSAGES” segment. Messages page contains the chat application for direct interaction to the carpool customer service. Here chat is only UI and for demo purpose.

Inbox — Notification
This is the second segment of the inbox tabs. This page contains the notification as list items in the vertical direction of the page. To enable and disable mobile notifications, you will first need a Push notifications system in your back-end. If you are using Firebase — implementing, enabling and disabling push notification is very easy compared to a custom back-end. Read more about Firebase- Ionic push notification here.

You will first need a Push notifications system in your back-end. If you are using Firebase — implementing, enabling and disabling push notification is very easy compared to a custom back-end. Read more about Firebase- Ionic push notification here.

Profile
This is the fifth tab and the first segment of this application. This page contains the nesting of tabs and segments. This page has two segments at the top of the page below the header as “DETAILS” and “ACCOUNTS”. This is the first segment of the profile tabs. This segment has a list of actions in vertical direction. All the action executes as…

Mini Biography
Add my preferences
Verify my id
Verify mobile number
verify email
Add a car

Profile — Mini Biography
This page can be accessed from the “Profile” page. The options available can be chosen to edit user name, email address, update password, address, contact, Gender, DOB, Bio, and etc as per your requirement and update all those. Back button takes you back to the “Profile” page.

Profile — Add my preferences
This page can be accessed from the “Profile” page by clicking on the “Add my preferences”. Here you can edit your preferences and update that. The save preferences button will update your data in the database and navigate back to the profile tab. Here this is only UI for demo purpose.

Profile — Verify my ID
This page can be accessed from the “Profile” page by clicking on the Verify my id”. This page will navigate to update document details.

Profile — Update Document
This page can be accessed from the “Verify my id” page by clicking on the “Driving License”. This page will navigate to the camera. Here this is only UI and for demo purpose. You can make it in a fully functioning app by integrating back-end with the help of a back-end developer.

Profile — Verify mobile number
This page can be accessed from the “Profile” page first segment. Verify mobile numbers page can be used to authenticate a user to check a user is registered or not. After entering the registered mobile number it navigates the user to the OTP verification page which a user receives after entering his/her mobile number.

Profile — OTP Verification
This page can be accessed after entering the phone number in with phone number page. In this page, received OTP on user’s mobile gets verified for letting the user to access the home page. On clicking “CONTINUE” it navigates back to the apps profile tab.
This page here is only the UI but you can make it a fully working app by integrating a suitable backend by a developer.

Profile — Verify email
This page can be accessed by clicking on the verify email in the profile page.
Here you can control the emails you want to get either all of them, just the important stuff or the bare minimum. Here you have the options to enable and disable email notifications.

Profile — Add a car
This page can be accessed by clicking on the Add a car in the profile page.
This page navigates to the add new vehicle page.

Profile — Add a car — Add new vehicle
This page can be accessed by clicking on the Add button at the very bottom in the Add a car page of the profile page. Here the items are listed in a list view in the vertical direction. Each item contains a dropdown menu to select the matching item from them.
By clicking on the “COMPLETE” button it will navigate back to the add car page.

Features

Geolocation
This can be accessed by clicking on the pickup page or drop-off page on the find ride page. This allows the app to get your current location by clicking on the current location button.

Google Map
Google map shows us the current location of the app by clicking on the current location or by filling the input field in the pickup or drop location. This shows us the exact point of our location on the map.

Google Place Prediction
As mentioned earlier in the geolocation, by filling the input text in the set pickup page or drop-off page, this will show you some predicted locations according to your filled entries in the text input field. By selecting any predicted location it will store that location and show that on Find a ride pages’ pickup and destination location individually.

Payments
You can have a payment page like above for the payments of the rides with the help of some developer. You can implement the payments by using any one or multiple of the following for your rides…

Conclusion

In this article, we get to know in quick fashion about all the screens and features of Ionic 4 Carpooling App Starter from Enappd. Carpooling is one of the most booming and trending app based business opportunities. Keeping in mind the positive environmental benefits of this model, more people are getting inclined towards carpooling services, it is also pocket-friendly at the same time. This starter can be a very useful and time saving starting point for freelancers and so provide great value at a fraction of the price if one goes for the custom development from the scratch.

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10 Awesome React Native UI Component Libraries You Should Know

Sanchit Gupta — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:51:12 +0000

With the increase in the demand for mobile applications, a large number of enterprises are shifting their focus towards mobile app development. Introduction of new technologies, platforms, and frameworks is allowing mobile app developers to create revolutionary mobile apps. Cross-Platform App Development has gained a lot of popularity in recent times as it enables developers to develop apps for multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Windows with a single code base.

React Native is one of the most famous Cross-Platform for mobile app development introduced by Facebook and it has one of the largest active developers community. With the growing popularity of React and the rise of native mobile app development (and PWA), it’s not surprising that React-Native is getting more adoption in the community every day.

Much like React itself, React Native encourages you to build your UI using isolated components. Component libraries and UI toolkits help you save time and build your applications faster, using a pre-made set of components.

REACT FEATURES

Components − It’ll assist you to maintain your code while working on large-scale projects. React is all about components.
Unidirectional data flow and Flux − React implements unidirectional data flow using Flux which is an application architecture that helps to keep your data unidirectional.

Here is a list of useful (maintained) React-native UI libraries to get you started. The list does not rank any framework and is listed in a random fashion. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions!

Tip: Use Enappd to get your hands on ready to use elegant App Templates build by expert UI/UX developers. Enappd has build world’s largest inventory of app templates, just name your need and chances are that you will be able to find a template built for it. Demo apk of all the app templates is available to download for free, check it out.

1. React Native Elements

At over 17k stars react-native-elements is a highly customizable cross-platform UI toolkit built entirely in Javascript. The library’s authors state that “The idea with React Native Elements is more about component structure than actual design, meaning less boilerplate in setting up certain elements but full control over their design”, which should make it appealing for both new developers and seasoned veterans. Here’s an example Expo app that shows all the components in action. Feel free to jump in.