State of Brownfield in React Native

Learn how to embed React Native inside a .NET MAUI app with a brownfield setup. This guide covers runtime packaging, lifecycle wiring, navigation, and shared state across both runtimes.

Choosing between brownfield and greenfield React Native migration? Learn where risk sits, when to use a checkpoint, and what to prove before committing.

See how React Native Brownfield uses iOS prebuilts to cut packaging times by up to 39% for hybrid apps, with details on setup, internals, and benchmark results.

See how task-driven Gradle optimization made the Brownfield Gradle Plugin 22% faster for clean Android release builds.

See how AI-supported workflows cut brownfield React Native evaluation from weeks to days by speeding up setup, planning, implementation, and QA.

Learn how to enable Expo Updates in an Isolated Brownfield setup with Expo SDK 55, including iOS packaging, Android patching, and OTA testing.

Reduce migration time from months to days by using AI in real React Native workflows. Learn when to migrate incrementally and when starting fresh is the better option.

Learn how to integrate React Native into Android TV apps at the Vega Developer Meetup. Workshop, roadmap, and community talks, live in Munich.

Discover how Zalando scaled React Native across a massive e-commerce app, from internal buy-in to brownfield rollout, and what they learned.

Discover how modern React Native Brownfield integration enables cross-platform power in native apps, without rewriting from scratch.

Learn how Shopify's migration to React Native led to 86% code unification, reduced build times, and seamless feature parity across platforms.

The 13th episode of React Universe On Air (formerly known as The React Native Show) is fully focused on migrating from different technologies to React Native, the two most popular approaches to this process (greenfield and brownfield software development), and our state-of-the-art brownfield approach.

Learn how React Native AI uses a unified provider model to switch between cloud and on-device LLMs without rewriting application logic, enabling reliable AI experiences online and offline.

Learn how on-device models in React Native can call tools, interact with external APIs, and return structured outputs you can use directly in application logic.

Learn how to run third-party on-device LLMs in React Native using MLC LLM. Choose your models, run them efficiently across platforms, and keep a unified JavaScript API with React Native AI.

Learn how to use Apple’s built-in Foundation Models in React Native apps, reduce memory usage, and enable fast, fully on-device AI with React Native AI Apple.

Learn why on-device AI matters for React Native apps, how local LLMs behave offline, and what problems React Native AI is designed to solve from day one.

Learn how to implement a React Native TurboModule on Android, from the TypeScript spec and Codegen to the Kotlin implementation and package registration.

Learn how JavaScript, native module, background, and main threads interact in React Native TurboModules, and how to use GCD queues to run async work safely in Swift.

Learn how to expose typed, immutable constants from a Swift TurboModule using Codegen, and get full end-to-end type safety between native and JavaScript.

Learn how to emit native events from a Swift TurboModule and subscribe to them in JavaScript, including proper memory management and Codegen integration.

Learn how to build a fully working TurboModule in Swift, integrate it with Codegen, and bridge it through Objective‑C inside an Expo app.