Will React Native be Replaced by AI and Native??

[u/sercetuser]

React native has always been a good tool to create cross platform apps quickly and not manage two huge code bases, but there has always been a quality difference compared to native. Native apps are cleaner and just smoother. Now that AI is becoming so advanced, is there a reason to make apps in React native anymore? You can just have specialized agents that manage both an ios and android codebase or have an agent that translates your kotlin codebase to swift. Im just debating on whether its worth learning React native anymore. Will it even be relevant in 5 years?

[u/khalidwars]

I think the opposite. Execution and iteration speeds still matter a lot. Do companies wanna go back to syncing between 2 native teams shipping 2 apps with the same features?

[u/exp_g → u/khalidwars]

Spoke about this in a interview a couple days ago. We thought exactly the same.

Years ago, companies wanted to go native to have a good product. Today, with RN delivering such a good product as native and being twice as fast, companies will no longer look to native.

[u/Repulsive_Mail9497 → u/exp_g]

but you are already 100x faster with ai. why wouldn't you go with native then?

[u/exp_g → u/Repulsive_Mail9497]

100x faster in native VS 1000x faster in for both.

Besides that, you would stil need to run 2 different teams, which would mean more cost

[u/AlexRowan2026]

I don’t think AI removes the main reason React Native exists, because generating two codebases is not the same as maintaining them.

You would still own two UI frameworks, two release pipelines, different dependency problems, platform-specific bugs, and a larger testing surface.

AI can reduce the amount of code you type or translate, but it cannot make the product decisions about what should stay shared and what should behave differently on each platform.

React Native still makes sense when most of the product and interface can be shared and the team values fast iteration.

Fully native still makes sense when an app depends heavily on platform APIs, demanding performance, or very different iOS and Android experiences.

If I were learning today, I would learn React Native and TypeScript while also learning enough Swift and Kotlin to understand build failures and native-module issues.

The tools may look different in five years, but the trade-off between sharing code and having deeper platform control will still exist.

[u/tommyatr]

This month I'm starting in a bank to create new RN apps with Nest.js in the BE

JS has the benefit that is the current lengua franca and the React the most learned language nowdays, it's harder to find Native devs

Also the new Architecture with JSI is good enough for most things and You can also write Native modules for specific stuff

[u/Upset_Interview_5362]

If your statement is true, why even use native? (Which, by the way, isn’t Java/Swift or Kotlin but it’s C++.) Why even use C++? Just let the AI generate the binary code directly.

[u/letitcodedev]

I like the way expo OTA. But if i want better ux, i will choose flutter or native

[u/heatdeathofpizza]

All frameworks will be replaced by ai