React Native development
React Native apps for iOS and Android, from one codebase.
We build the app with Expo, native to each phone where it matters, and the product around it as one team.
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- VMGM Software is a React Native development company in Austin, Texas that builds iOS and Android apps with Expo from one TypeScript codebase.
- VMGM Software builds the whole product around a React Native app: the API, the database, the web dashboard, AI features and the cloud infrastructure, on AWS or the client’s own platform.
- With Expo, a VMGM Software app can use SwiftUI controls on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android, so each version feels native.
- ClearSite, a React Native app VMGM Software built for Scrap-It, controls an Insta360 camera over Bluetooth and feeds an AI vision pipeline; the whole product took three months.
- Every VMGM Software project is one fixed quote, free, with working builds every week.
- The code, the App Store and Google Play listings, and the cloud accounts belong to the client.
What is React Native?
React Native builds iOS and Android apps from one TypeScript codebase. The screens are real platform components, not a web page in a wrapper, which is why Shopify and Discord ship their apps on it.
Will it feel like a native app?
Yes, if you want it to. Expo lets us use each platform's own controls where they matter: SwiftUI on iOS and Jetpack Compose on Android. In Kidtime, our own app, a menu opens as a SwiftUI picker on an iPhone and a Compose menu on Android, from the same code. Where one shared design suits the product better, we share it.
Why we build with Expo
- Builds and store submissions run in the cloud for both platforms.
- Over-the-air updates ship a fix without waiting for app review, for any change that does not touch native code.
- Full device access. ClearSite, an Expo app we built, drives an Insta360 camera over Bluetooth.
We build Expo apps with an AI coding agent. Here is the setup we give it: the MCP servers and skills, and what each one does.
React Native or separate Swift and Kotlin apps?
| React Native with Expo | Separate Swift and Kotlin apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Codebases | One | Two |
| Team | One | An iOS team and an Android team |
| Shipping a fix | Over the air for most changes | App review for every change |
| Best fit | Most product apps | Graphics-heavy games, or a new platform-only API |
For most products one codebase wins: every feature reaches both platforms at once, with one team to pay.
What we build around the app
An app is rarely the whole product, so we build the rest as the same team: the API and database, the web dashboard your team works from, AI features, and the cloud infrastructure in your own account. AWS is our specialty, and we deploy wherever your company already runs.
React Native apps we have built
Scrap-It · 2026 · 3 months
ClearSite
Lots with no addresses, graded from a drive-past. The plat becomes a map, the map gives every lot coordinates, and a camera on a truck does the rest.
Expo · tRPC · NestJS · LangGraph · Postgres · AWS
Our own · 2025
Kidtime
Keeps track of where children’s time actually goes: activities, schedules and the week as it really ran.
Expo · tRPC · Next.js · Postgres · AWS
Frequently asked questions
- Is React Native good enough for production apps?
Yes. Shopify and Discord run their mobile apps on it, and it is what we use for client apps such as ClearSite, which drives a camera over Bluetooth in the field.
- Can a React Native app use Bluetooth, the camera and GPS?
Yes. Native modules give a React Native app the same device access as a native one. ClearSite connects to an Insta360 camera over Bluetooth, tracks the vehicle’s location and uploads footage when it has signal.
- Does one codebase really cover iOS and Android?
Almost all of it. The screens, the logic and the data layer are shared. A small amount of platform-specific code handles the places where iOS and Android differ, such as permission prompts and store requirements.
- Is Expo only for prototypes?
No. Early Expo could not run custom native code, and that is where the reputation comes from. Today it can, and the React Native documentation recommends starting new apps with a framework such as Expo.
- Do you publish the app to the App Store and Google Play?
Yes. We handle the builds, the review submissions and the updates, under your own developer accounts so the listings are yours.
- How much does a React Native app cost?
It depends on scope: how many kinds of user, which integrations and hardware, and what has to be built around the app. Here is what moves the price, and the fixed quote is free.
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