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Jed Ashford • Edited

As a life long Android developer, I've fallen in love with react native. Keep in mind that there are tooling issues, but it's not like you won't have those with xcode or Android studio with a single platform install. Yes, I run into more problems with react native than I would with just an Android project alone, BUT I have far less problems than maintaining tools and knowledge for Android, iOS, Apple TV, and Android TV.

Over the air updates make it a must in place of native development. We release multiple times a day, running hundreds of combinations of tests. Creating good mobile products is impossible without the speed and release process we have with react native.

I'm a strong believer that it's the future, but yes, some painful tools and integrations. You cannot use RN without knowledge of both iOS and Android native development at the moment unless you jump over to full expo.

The problem with flutter right now is it's lack of Apple TV support, and dart.

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Erick Navarro

Can you send over the air updates without expo? In a react-native init project?

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Jed Ashford

Yup. Microsoft's code push is what the community uses for over the air updates. Very simple to integrate and use.

Thanks for the write up. Your spot on with many points.

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Erick Navarro

Love it, thanks!!!