React Native Apps and Cross Platform Software Development

Every business wants to grow, for that they need a robust information and data structure which can be used by their employees and customers. Businesses need to ensure user satisfaction by offering them a great digital ecosystem which enhances the digital user experience. Businesses use various software and applications to improve their processes, operational efficiency and to drive productivity and performance. That is not all, businesses always have several challenges, the tough competition, the ever increasing customer demands, the low performing teams and employees, and what not. When it comes to custom software development, businesses chose the solution which matches their technical requirements and also fits in their budgetary limitations. Businesses in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and other parts of UAE are well-aware of the impact of digital tools, software and mobile apps. However, most often businesses do not realize that they don’t need to acquire different applications for different platforms (which is very expensive), in fact they can have a completely customized software using the technique of cross-platform software development, which is most cost-effective way of launching your software or app to multiple platforms.

React Native Apps and Cross Platform Software Development
React Native Apps and Cross Platform Software Development

What is React Native?

The React Native is a JavaScript based framework and library to develop the frontend UI for software and applications. It is an open-source platform, which means it is free to use and it is developed by Meta, formally known as Facebook. The reason why it is so popular is that it enable developers to utilize native capabilities of the platform and develop cross-platform software applications while utilizing only React framework. This simplifies the software development process and enable developers to develop excellent applications for multiple platforms with very less time and efforts. Furthermore the software developers can easily utilize their JavaScript skills to work on React Native framework which minuses the learning curve. The React JS and React Native often confused with one another, however, both are different. The React JS is majorly used for developing websites and web-apps however, the React Native is a cross-platform software development framework which is built on top of React JS and it allow developers to develop applications for Android, iOS, MAC OS, Windows and a few other platforms. Furthermore the React Native can also be utilized for both frontend and backend development which make it superior from other counterparts.

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What is React Native?
What is React Native?

What is Cross-Platform App Development?

The cross-platform app development is simply a method of providing your software, mobile application or web-apps to a diverse range of audience who are using multiple different platforms. This means all users from different platform would be needing same user experience, features, UI, etc. The biggest challenge of cross-platform software development is that a business would be needing multiple different teams to work on different platforms. Here are some cross-platform development tools:

Popular cross-platform development tools:

  1. JavaScript: For website and web-app development
  2. Kotlin: For Android app development
  3. Swift: For Apple iOS app development
  4. .NET: For Windows software and tools development

If you want to make your software and app available for all above platforms, then you will be needing at least 4 different teams to work on your single app/software. This could be very expensive, moreover it is difficult to manage multiple teams working on a same software or app. Furthermore each platform team will have different costing mechanisms, hence it would be difficult to meet release date. Later on, when you will be needing any maintenance, update or upgrade, your efforts and expensive would be multiplied to the number of platforms you are working at. That is where the React Native comes to play, it allow businesses to hire a single team and make cross-platform software development seamless and very cost-effective. The maintenance/updates are also easier and very less expensive.

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What is Cross-Platform App Development?
What is Cross-Platform App Development?

What are the Benefits of Using React Native Apps for Cross Platform Development?

The React Native is rapidly growing on Stack Overflow and GitHub. It is widely adopted by businesses and organizations not only in UAE but all across the world. This also means that a developer can easily find community support and a huge number of ready-made plugins and scripts all over the internet which help developer speeding up the cross-platform software development projects. Here are some key benefits of using React Native apps and cross-platform software development for your business:

Quicker Development Process

Since you don’t require to have different teams working on your software for different platforms and only a single team can do that, the development cycle becomes shorter which also enables you to launch your apps quickly. Furthermore the React Native offers several features which help the programmers and developers to quickly develop their applications, and also it enables quick debugging and testing which makes development process much quicker than any other available framework. Moreover the code is also useable at several platforms which make development fast, it also reduce efforts to write code for multiple platforms and making changes to it. That is why the react native can effectively reduce the time and efforts of developing cross platform software.

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React Native: Quicker Development Process
React Native: Quicker Development Process

Reduce the Cost of Cross Platform Software Development

The react native can greatly reduce the cost of your cross platform software development projects. Thanks to its ability to provide a reusable and compatible code for multiple platforms and reducing the efforts the time required to develop such mobile apps, web-apps and software has become very low. This also help reducing the cost. As less time and efforts are needed to develop a cross platform software, the cost is also low and since only one technology stack is required for the entire team, it is easier to find the skilled teams or vendors who can develop such software, apps and tools. Here in Dubai and all around the UAE the software development agencies, such as RSI Concepts and many others are offering highly cost-efficient software development services, which also impact the cost of your software development and help business get a highly cost-effective solution.

React Native: Reduce the Cost of Cross Platform Software Development
React Native: Reduce the Cost of Cross Platform Software Development

Support Multiple Platforms

There is a common impression among businesses and non-coders, that the react native is only meant to be used for Android and iOS app development. However, that is not true at all. The react native is a very useful platform with a wider range of compatibility. Businesses can develop applications and software which can be offered on Android, iOS, Windows, MAC OS, Websites and a few more. There is a huge online community support for the React Native platform and above all it is rapidly evolving and growing adding support for newer platforms and technologies. This means businesses and developers both can expect a sharp rise in compatibility and efficacy of the react native and its expansion to various other platforms. That is what makes react native much more superior than other such frameworks.

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React Native: Support Multiple Platforms
React Native: Support Multiple Platforms

Native-like Experience and Performance

When it comes to platforms like react native, the biggest concern of the businesses is experience and performance. That was also true, but a few years back, not now. Now a days, there are so many advancements made to the react native core, and furthermore the Meta (Formally known as Facebook) has introduced a new JavaScript engine, Hermes, which enables static optimization and help reducing the app size. Furthermore the React Native can also render components to the GPU which is achieved by eliminating the gap between the JavaScript and the native components and results in high-performing apps. This enables developers to offer a native-like experience and performance by simply using react native and its advanced components.

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React Native: Native-like Experience and Performance
React Native: Native-like Experience and Performance

Quick Debugging and Changes

One of the biggest advantage of the React Native is its features like hot-reloading, live-reloading and fast refresh. When making changes to the application’s source code or debugging it the developers will have to recompile the application, however, with the react native this isn’t require anymore. It means that the developers can see their changes immediately, almost in real-time without the need to recompile the entire application, which is a time consuming tasks. That is why the developers prefer to use react native, as it helps them make changes and refine their work without any extra effort or repeated tasks. Furthermore the new features of the react native framework are extremely useful in debugging typos, syntax and other common errors in the code, which makes it more productive and ideal framework for the agile development teams.

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React Native: Quick Debugging and Changes
React Native: Quick Debugging and Changes

What are the Drawbacks of Using React Native for Cross Platform Software Development?

The React Native is one of the best framework available to this day for cross platform software and apps development. However, same like other technologies, it also has some drawbacks, although these drawbacks usually won’t impact a business, but in certain and very few number of scenarios these drawbacks could become problematic. Here are some drawbacks of using React Native for cross platform apps and software development:

  • Unlike native technologies such as Kotlin or Swift the React Native is based on JavaScript which is a dynamically-typed programming language. This requires developers to follow certain standards and rules in order to avoid bugs form the apps.
  • There are certain native modules which are not available in React Native, especially those are related to interacting with device’s hardware, hence when dealing with such functionalities the developers must have to insert native codes, which could also affect behavior and appearance.
  • When using a framework like react native for cross platform software development, the developers can never achieve the level of performance and integration which can be achieved using the native codes and APIs.
  • The operating systems of different platforms keep updating very frequently. However, the react native or any other cross platform app development framework is slow on adopting to new changes and introducing new features which are instantly available for the native apps.

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There is a clear difference between the native app development and cross platform software development. However, frameworks like React Native are rapidly bridging the gap between these two. The modern versions of react native have already minimized a lot of problems, which makes it ideal for more than 90% of the businesses, there are only a certain sectors or businesses who still need to build native apps because they need sophisticated features and intensive hardware integration with their apps. Otherwise the react native is best for cross platform software development.

What are the Drawbacks of Using React Native for Cross Platform Software Development?
What are the Drawbacks of Using React Native for Cross Platform Software Development?

Conclusion

When it comes to mobile app development or customized software tools, the first thing businesses should consider is their needs. Both react native and the native app development has its own advantages and drawbacks. However, cross platform software development can significantly reduce your cost, efforts and time of development which is why most businesses are preferring it. The react native is also preferred choice of software developers as it is convenient, easy to use, debug, and it offers a variety of features which enable them to add advanced features to their mobile apps, and software tools. Furthermore the react native offers almost native like performance and experience. The developers can reuse the code, they can easily debug it and update it, and the overall efforts and development time can be greatly reduced. The react native framework is rapidly gaining popularity all around the world, the Meta is also introducing new features to make it better and the community support is also growing. All these are signs of a very bright future for React Native and cross platform software development. In this blog we tried to cover everything important about React Native and cross platform software development. This blog will give you a better understanding of cross platform and native apps. If you want to learn more or if you want our help to develop a native or cross platform app, please feel free to contact us through our Contact Us page or leave a comment in the comment box below and someone will get in touch with you soon.

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Typography and its Impact on Website UI – Web Design Dubai Trends

Web Design Dubai Trends Series

Are you a website designer on the verge of designing a website? Are you abreast with the latest web design trends? Are you in Dubai and embarking on web designing? Well this blog of ours has been written for you! Heard about typography? Yes? No? Okay, it does not matter what your answer is. By the end of this blog you will be better conversant with typography and its impact on your website’s UI!

Typography Is…

Typography is the art and science of arranging printed matter in a format which is readable. It is the way printed content and text appear on your screen. Continue reading “Typography and its Impact on Website UI – Web Design Dubai Trends”

Utm Tags and SEO Best Practices – SEO Dubai Trends

SEO Dubai Trends

This is yet another blog of our SEO Dubai Trends series with a focus on UTM tags. What are UTM tags?  How to use them? What are the best ways to adopt them? What role do they play in search engine optimization? We answer all these questions in this blog of ours!

Introduction to UTM tags and their role in SEO

UTM tags or UTM parameters are teeny weeny bits of text which can be added to your URL. Now why should you add them? Good question! As a person involved in search engine marketing you will adopting many algorithms to drive traffic into your site through multiple channels. How can you measure the effect of any particular channel on the traffic to your site? The answer is by using UTM tags which can be added to the URL. These UTM tags are unique and one tag can be used to denote one particular channel through which people access your site due to your SEO and marketing efforts. Continue reading “Utm Tags and SEO Best Practices – SEO Dubai Trends”

The Important Link between Interactive UX, Businesses, and Ajax

Web Design - User Experience and SEO Rankings

User Experience or UX is increasingly becoming paramount for businesses as it helps them connect with their audience in a better manner. An interactive UX forms the basis for better user interaction and hence better presence. This blog of ours throws light on the importance of a lively UX and also how AJAX can be intelligently leveraged to drive an interactive UX which will translate into better business operations.

Web Design Dubai Trends

Interactive Design: The founding bedrocks

One of the much ignored yet most important founding principles of an interactive UX is defining what the objective of creating the user interface is and who the target audience to be engaged are. Many organizations fail in defining a primary objective to their designer and hence the user interface designed does not immediately cater to their needs, requiring alterations. Once the objectives are clearly defined, it becomes easier to come up with an apt UX which engages with the user and keeps them on the site for longer.

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SEO Optimized Content for Your Users and Search Engines

How to Create an SEO Friendly Web Design

Our New SEO Dubai Trends Series!

We are launching a new SEO Dubai series of blogs is on SEO trends in Dubai, which will be featured periodically along with our other blogs.  This blog is the first of the series and talks about how SEO will help you in optimizing your content to satisfy your users and garner more footfalls by featuring high on search engine queries. Here are some easy ways in which you can optimize your content. While this content is valid for all regions across the globe, if you are in the region around Dubai, this article will definitely be of immense help for you!

How to write SEO Friendly Content for your Website?
How to write SEO Friendly Content for your Website?

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Tip 1: Understand why people are searching for the particular content or information

You may be a business offering a service or a product. You may be a trader. It does not matter what business vertical you are in. The foremost step is to understand why people are searching for the particular information. Is it to compare prices? Is it to evaluate different companies? Understanding this is the first step towards using SEO to gain more online traction. Continue reading “SEO Optimized Content for Your Users and Search Engines”

User Experience in a Flat User Interface Design – Web Design Dubai Trends

Flat Web Design is a simplistic web design which eschews all frills and three dimensional effects

Flat User Interface design has revolutionized the web space. This blog of ours focuses on how the user experience has been catapulted by the advent of a flat user interface. Flat designs are also very trendy world wide and web design Dubai industry is also welcoming them in the year 2015.

 

Information Presentation

The nicest thing about a flat user interface is that the UI is simple and easy on the eye. Unlike older UIs which cluttered a page with too much information, in a flat user interface the information presented is less. This helps a user to read and understand better. It also enhances the user experience because the user is not overwhelmed with too much information.

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Bootstrap for Responsive Web Design – Dubai and UAE Industry Trends

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Web Design Dubai industry is evolving rapidly as the use of mobile devices to browse the internet in Dubai is excessively increasing!

Responsive Web Design Dubai has become a buzz word in the UAE industry. A web design needs a radical change in the current approach to make it a responsive one. How to come up with a responsive web design is a question every web designer is constantly endeavouring to answer. Industry trends are rapidly evolving in Dubai web design industry. In this blog, we try to elicit some ways and reasons on how bootstrap will assist in creating a responsive web design.

Responsive Web Design Tips to Keep up with the Current Trends
Responsive Web Design Best Practices to Keep Up With the Current Trends

Two key elements of a responsive web design which has by and large been a pain point for designers has been the need to use a lot of CSS coding and the increased testing time, where you test on any and every device possible. As most of the internet users in UAE are using mobile devices and a statistical report suggests that more than 70% of the internet surfers in Dubai are using mobile devices. So, the need to test the web design on each and every platform available in the market is exceedingly high. This is where bootstrap can ease the burden of a web designer. Continue reading “Bootstrap for Responsive Web Design – Dubai and UAE Industry Trends”

How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?

How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?

Retina Compatible Web Designs – The new frontier in the Designing Industry

The advent of Retina Display, as coined by Apple, has changed the way in which we view web designing. The premise of this blog is to elucidate what is retina display and how to create web designs which are compatible with retina display. Want to revamp your website for retina display? Get a free quote from the best web design company in Dubai.

What is Retina Display?
The pixel and resolution of a retina display will be at least 300 pixels per inch!

What is Retina Display?

Apple came up with the term “Retina Display”. It denotes monitors and other devices whose pixel density and resolution is very high. Such a display will make it impossible for anyone to differentiate between individual pixels, when viewing from a regular distance. The pixel and resolution of a retina display will be at least 300 pixels per inch! Not just Apple, but every modern day manufacturer swears by a retina display. Continue reading “How to make Retina Display Compatible Web Designs?”

How to Reduce the Load Time in Responsive Web Design

How to Reduce the Load Time in Responsive Web Design

The responsive web design is slower as compared to mobile site, but can provide best user experience, here is how to reduce the load time for a responsive web design.

Responsive web designs have been the buzz word in the industry ever since the mobile internet traffic has increased. Responsive web design will continue to be of primordial importance as web designs have to cater to customers viewing websites from multiple kinds of electronic devices. Most of the web design Dubai companies these days are preferring responsive web designing. A responsive web design will enable a website to be viewed from any electronic gadget and automatically re-size to ensure that the website viewing is user friendly.  A responsive web design does away with the need to have separate mobile sites to aid viewing on smart phones and other mobile devices.

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Responsive Web Designs are Slow - Poor Load Time
Responsive Web Designs have Slower Load Time

One major challenge facing a responsive web design has been the loading time. The loading time of a website is the time taken to view the website on the device. A responsive web design takes more than 2-3 times the loading time of a mobile site. This leads to a longer user wait time and hence a sense of disappointment on the web design. The premise of this blog is to elucidate some of the reasons which lead to a slowing down of the loading time of responsive web designs, and to find ways to reduce this.

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TRA Dubai Hire RSI Concepts to Design a User Friendly and Professional Website

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TRA Dubai - Telecom Regularity Authority of the UAE LogoRSI Concepts was hired by the Telecom Regularity Authority (TRA Dubai) to design the website of the organization. The Web Design Dubai team at RSI designs a user friendly website for TRA. The Telecom Regularity Authority is a premier organization with multifarious functions and responsibilities. TRA is the organization which takes care of the functioning of telecom players throughout the country. They are the primordial organization through whom the aim of making UAE a pioneer in ICT is fulfilled.

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The Telecom Regularity Authority fosters sportive competition between multiple telecom players to ensure that the customer and public demands are met satisfactorily. The TRA ensures that international standards and compliance are adhered to, and the services rendered within UAE meets global standards.

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