Facebook made the announcement of it open sourcing React Native For Android on GitHub today at its annual @Scale conference. 1,800 execs and engineers from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Box ...

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.

React Native, developed by Facebook and released last year under an open source license, lets developers build a rich mobile user interface using JavaScript. It leverages the same fundamental UI ...