The only mobile framework who does actually allow to do something against that is Xamarin, which lets you use a really cool iOS remote simulator for Windows. Which is kind of sad, if you tell me, since nobody should be forced to use a Mac.

This is more a Apple cruel restriction than a React Native limitation, though: the sad part about mobile development nowadays is that Apple does not allow any kind of iOS emulator outside their ecosystem, thus forcing any developer who wants to create multi-platform mobile apps to develop using a Mac. Unfortunately, we cannot build and run iOSapps, as they do require a MacOS (or, to better say, a OSX machine). The first thing we need to do is to install React Native framework on our system, together with all its required dependencies to build and run Androidapps. Install React Native (and its dependencies)

If you are wondering what is this 'React' language we're talking about, we stronglysuggest you to read the React Wikipedia page, as you are missing one of the most important, widely-using and market-dominating front-end UI frameworks from the web nowadays. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI using declarative components instead of having to learn how to natively do it using Android Studio or XCode.Ĭonversely from other web-to-native frameworks, the apps you'll be able to build with React Native won't be mobile web apps wrapped in a native shell (if you know about PhoneGap/Cordoba you know what I mean): they will actually be iOS and Android native app! The only difference is that, instead of using Swift, Kotlin or Java to put together the native UI building blocks, you'll be to this using JavaScript and React. In a nutshell, Reactive App is a framework for building native apps using JavaScript and React.

Add the ANDROID_HOME environment variableĭo you know React Native? If you don't, you should really do something about that, especially if you're a web developer interested in creating native mobile app.

Install React Native (and its dependencies).

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