How to Make Your React (Native) App Feel Native

Name: How to Make Your React (Native) App Feel Native
Start: 2025-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wroclaw, Poland

Presented

React Universe Meetup

Speaker

Oskar Kwaśniewski

Software Developer

Callstack

The “native feel” is more than just polish, it’s the difference between apps users love and apps they abandon.

In this talk from the React Universe Meetup in Wrocław (April 2024), Oskar Kwaśniewski, React Native Core contributor and Senior Engineer at Callstack, unpacks what native feeling actually means, and how to achieve it in React Native across platforms like iOS, Android, tvOS, VisionOS, and beyond.

You’ll learn:

What makes an app feel truly native
Why platform guidelines matter (and where most devs go wrong)
How to use native navigation primitives in RN
When and why JavaScript navigation falls short
How Oskar built react-native-bottom-tabs to offer native tab bars that adapt to every platform, from Android to VisionOS

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