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title: "Adding React Native to iOS and Android Apps Has Never Been Easier"
description: "Learn how to easily add React Native to your iOS and Android apps with a modern brownfield setup powered by Callstack’s open-source tooling."
url: https://www.callstack.com/events/adding-react-native-to-ios-and-android-apps-has-never-been-easier
updated: 2026-10-24T08:39:18.647Z
---

# Adding React Native to iOS and Android Apps Has Never Been Easier

Learn how to easily add React Native to your iOS and Android apps with a modern brownfield setup powered by Callstack’s open-source tooling.

_Webinar · 5/27/2025, 6 PM [CET] · Online · Recording: 01:04:11 · Category: Brownfield_

Organizer: Callstack

Speakers: Burak Güner (Software Developer @ Callstack), Michał Pierzchala (Principal Engineer @ Callstack)

[Watch the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2U3EVN-88)

Brownfield React Native used to be a pain. Legacy docs told you to mash everything into a monorepo, deal with flaky integrations, and cross your fingers it would all work. But that approach doesn’t scale, and doesn’t reflect how teams work today.

In this webinar, Michał Pierzchała and Burak Güner walk you through a reimagined approach to brownfield React Native, built for modern teams. You’ll learn how to skip the structural headaches and start embedding React Native in your iOS and Android apps with a modular, dev-friendly setup.

### **What you'll learn about brownfield React Native**

Watch the webinar recording to get a full walkthrough of today’s best practices for integrating React Native in native apps:

- A crash course on what brownfield really means in 2025
- Why and how teams are adopting React Native gradually
- Real-world use cases: from replacing WebViews to accelerating experiments
- A demo of Callstack’s updated [React Native Brownfield library](https://github.com/callstack/react-native-brownfield)
- How to bundle your RN app into an XCFramework or AAR, no monorepo required
- How [Rock](https://enterprise-framework.callstack.com/) fits in, and what it automates
- What to expect from the developer experience, debugging, hot reloading, and more

### **Key takeaways for React Native in native apps**

Walk away with practical guidance, tools, and example setups to modernize your brownfield architecture:

- The new way to go brownfield: package React Native like any other dependency
- [React Native Brownfield 1.0](https://www.callstack.com/blog/powering-native-apps-with-react-native-brownfield): runtime helpers, multi-instance support, new-arch compatible
- Dev setup that doesn’t force Node or CocoaPods on native teams
- A real SwiftUI + RN preview flow, with live reload and hot updates
- Pro tips for dealing with tricky native dependencies (e.g., Firebase)
- When to use [Rock](https://www.callstack.com/blog/were-building-a-new-react-native-framework), and when you can get by without it