Native or React Native: an honest decision guide
The right answer depends on your team, your feature set and your release cadence, not on which framework is trending.
By AMTEX Consulting · Editorial
We build both. Here is how we help clients choose.
Choose native when
- The app is the product and platform polish is a differentiator.
- You need deep hardware access: camera pipelines, Bluetooth peripherals, ARKit.
- You already have iOS and Android teams.
Choose React Native with Expo when
- One team must ship both platforms and a web app.
- Business logic changes often and over-the-air updates matter.
- The app is mostly forms, lists, and integrations to backend systems, which describes most enterprise apps.
Either way
The backend, authentication, push, payments and store compliance are the same amount of work. Budget for them explicitly.
- ios
- react-native
- expo