The first cross-platform React NATIVE app - ads manager - was developed by the London-based dev team, who were in the US to announce the Android release YESTERDAY evening. Ads manager lets businesses that advertise on the social NETWORK manage their accounts and create new adverts.

React Native has only recently been proven in production and building a new app based on the framework carried some RISK.

Three product engineers familiar with React set about to create an app for Android and predicted problems with the logic necessary to understand differing time zones, date formats, currencies and ad formats across the WORLD.

This business logic was already written in JavaScript, and the team knew it wouldn't be efficient to build it all again in Objective-C to do it again in Java for Android.

Now this project has been released on Github, developers can use a single workflow to develop for iOS and Android. This means you can use the same editor and propagate it to both the iOS simulator and Android emulator at the same time.

The first cross-platform React Native app - ads manager - was developed by the London-based dev team, who were in the US to announce the Android release yesterday evening. Ads manager lets businesses that advertise on the social network manage their accounts and create new adverts.

React Native has only recently been proven in production and building a new app based on the framework carried some risk.

Three product engineers familiar with React set about to create an app for Android and predicted problems with the logic necessary to understand differing time zones, date formats, currencies and ad formats across the world.

This business logic was already written in JavaScript, and the team knew it wouldn't be efficient to build it all again in Objective-C to do it again in Java for Android.

Now this project has been released on Github, developers can use a single workflow to develop for iOS and Android. This means you can use the same editor and propagate it to both the iOS simulator and Android emulator at the same time.