Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Shopify has officially announced its decision to move away from React Native, transitioning its mobile development strategy back to native Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. After years of utilizing React Native to maintain a unified codebase, the engineering team concluded that the overhead of maintaining a cross-platform bridge and the limitations in accessing platform-specific features outweighed the benefits of code sharing. By adopting native development, Shopify aims to improve app performance, enhance user experience, and provide developers with direct access to the latest platform capabilities provided by Apple and Google. This shift reflects a growing trend among large-scale consumer applications that prioritize high-performance, platform-specific UI and deep system integration over the convenience of cross-platform frameworks. The company plans to gradually migrate its existing features to native code, ensuring a smoother transition for its massive user base while maintaining high standards for app stability and responsiveness.