Carefully design your app’s navigation. Use the icon packs for React Native. Be mindful about the typography for both iOS and Android.

Now that Facebook has open-sourced the React Native code base, it’s free and available to all, so we can expect both its code and its ideas to seep into other tools and development platforms.

Another benefit of React Native is that it automates code refreshes, accelerating the release of new product features. Instead of recompiling, your app reloads instantly.

React Native simply becomes a third-party library that’s used in the native app and the React Native code then lives in what Walmart Labs calls an “Electrode Native MiniApp.” ...

Go figure. [Click on image for larger view.] Developer Options in the Genymotion Emulator (source: David Ramel) With those minor glitches overcome, the debugging experience with my sample Android app ...