Unquestionably, React Native is a highly sought-after cross-platform application development framework. As the most mature framework, React Native is used by top brands such as?UberEats, Facebook, Tesla, and many more. Businesses that want to create truly amazing and world-class, cross-platform mobile experiences from a single database go for React Native application development. For building great apps, however, you need the best React Native tools. ?
While it remains the most mature and competent cross-platform mobile application development framework, React Native still doesn’t have the same set of development tools & SDKs as native Android and iOS app development tools have. In this blog, we’ll quickly go over the greatest React Native tools that every mobile app developer must know about. ?
React Native app development tools and SDKs?
- BuilderX: This is one of the most popular UI component kits for React Native. Created by?Native Base,?BuilderX?is a web browser-based design tool that converts all your design to code – all that it does automatically. This tool is powered by a component library and icons for all your needs to help you build amazingly beautiful mobile apps or simply convert your Sketch design to React Native. In other words, using?BuilderX, you can import all your Sketch work to React Native without any effort. ??
- Bitrise: This is a React Native CI/CD tool that is mobile-focused?and you can use it for automating the app’s build, test, and deploy pipeline with a few clicks. With?Bitrise, you don’t really need your computer for building because each build runs in its virtual machine and, when the build is complete, all data is automatically discarded. This is a great React Native tool that integrates with over 300 tools to fit right into your toolchain. So, this tool will help you build mobile apps that perform great and look & feel great. The mobile app development services provider you hire may use this tool for automating the process of building, testing, and deploying, thereby helping you bring the cost of overall development down and reduce the time limit as well. ??
- Codemagic: Codemagic?is yet another CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) tool that app developers can use to automate their application’s build, test, and deploy pipeline and integrate it with all their favourite tools. It also provides data encryption for sensitive data and the best part is that there is no need to store any code on their servers. You may even specify user roles with your team access-control feature. When hiring React Native app development services, you may recommend this tool to your chosen developers so they can reduce their efforts and time in the app’s pipeline – from build to deploy. ?
- ?Mixpanel: This is one of the most powerful and highly sought-after analytics tools that are available on the market today.?Mixpanel?can help you track your users and the way they interact with your application. With the help of the?Mixpanel?React Native?SDK, this tool lets you keep track of key metrics and build funnels to help in converting, retaining, and engaging new and more users. ?
- Countly: This is an open-source tool for web & mobile apps?analytics?and you can use it for tracking your app users’?behaviour. The React Native SDK of this tool lets you keep track of the key metrics and develop funnels that result in faster and better conversions, engagement, and retention of more users. A lot of React Native app development service providers make use of this tool to help businesses monetize their apps after they have been developed and launched. ??
- Instabug: This is a platform for developers and businesses looking to gain real-time contextual insights for mobile applications that are useful for reporting in-app bugs, performance monitoring, crash reporting, feature requests, and surveys. When you integrate the React Native SDK of?Instabug, you can enable your users to report bugs that they face without quitting the app. This tool takes a screenshot that can be blurred and annotated by your users, and it also captures comprehensive logs as well as device details to help developers and testers find and resolve issues quickly. ??
Crash reports include all the logs and device details that you need to find the exact issue, and with the APM of?Instabug, you can keep a close watch on the performance of your app and detect and identify issues such as UI hangs, slow launches, and others. Remember, if such issues keep recurring, your users may either stop using the app or may even uninstall it permanently.?Needless to say, people?use the apps for convenience and speed, and if the app slows down or makes the task difficult, users may drop it. You can use this tool to send targeted surveys to your users in order to gain a better understanding of the changed user?actions. Users?can vote for the features that are already there in the app and can request new features that they want to be added to the app. The mobile app development company you hire can also leverage this tool to your advantage.??
- Apptimize: This is an A/B testing, mobile-focused, and feature flags React Native tool that supports mobile applications developed using React Native. The tool helps developers launch the app’s A/B tests for experimenting with various ideas so that a great app experience is ensured for all users and for optimising your funnel and coming down to the top-performing variants. Furthermore, you may use their feature flags for controlling your app releases, mitigating the risks associated with rollout and rollback without an update, or just for targeted app releases such as releasing only to your beta testers. ??
- Appodeal: This is one of the most feature-rich and powerful mobile ad mediation tools that are available on the market to help with monetizing the app by showing ads from the leading app networks. These tools provide a hybrid in-app-bidding technology that you can customize by allocating higher priority to your preferred ad network from the platform's above 70 such?networks. Appodeal?also extends A/B testing for advertisements, product updates, audience, and more to help you optimize your setup, plus it provides powerful reporting so you can better understand your app’s overall performance.??
- Judopay: This is an in-app payment tool that can efficiently handle all your payments in your application and allow you to accept multiple methods of payment. Their SDK offers fully customizable pre-built checkout pages that can be easily adapted to your brand. ??
- Square: Yet another great in-app payment tool, Square can help you handle payments right in your application. It can also help you accept multiple, different payment methods. The SDKs of these tools also offer fully customizable prebuilt checkout pages that can be easily adapted to your brand. Your mobile app development services provider can help you make the most of this tool for your business's gain. ??
- Visual Studio Code: A product by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that’s used in coding for multiple languages in an efficient, easy, time-saving, and effortless manner.??
- RevenueCat:?This is an in-app subscription and purchase management tool that works with Android, Stripe, and iOS. It allows you to easily build and manage in-app subscriptions and?purchases. It?tracks your app performance by measuring LTV, churn, MRR, etc.??
- Airship: This is an excellent platform for customer engagement that lets you send in-app messages and push notifications to your users to engage them and eventually convert them. This tool also helps you create an in-app message-centre?for creating an in-app-inbox where you can keep sending messages persistently to your app users. ?
The mobile app development company you hire may choose to use one or more of these tools to help you build, test, deploy, and market your React Native mobile app efficiently and effortlessly. ?
