# AI-Accelerated React Native Apps for iOS and Android DreamLabs is an AI-powered app development agency in California — a fractional product team for mobile and web apps, from strategy to launch. One TypeScript codebase, three destinations: the App Store, the Play Store, and the web. We pair senior engineers with AI to take React Native apps from architecture to launch in weeks, not the months a two-platform build normally demands. ## Frequently asked questions ### What does a React Native app cost to build? Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. A typical React Native build with our team lands around $20,000 all-in and takes about 6 weeks; the traditional route, separate native iOS and Android teams at a conventional agency, runs closer to $200,000 and 6 months. Two things drive the difference: React Native's single TypeScript codebase means the work is done once for both platforms, and our AI-accelerated process compresses the scaffolding, boilerplate, and testing that consume most of a traditional budget. ### How long does it take to develop an app with React Native? About 6 weeks for most builds, launching on iOS and Android simultaneously, versus the roughly 6 months a traditionally staffed build typically takes. AI-assisted scaffolding, code generation, and test coverage let a small senior team move quickly, and Expo's tooling removes most of the release friction at the end. You see working screens on real devices in the first sprint, not months in, and typical projects land around $20,000 rather than the roughly $200,000 of a conventional two-platform build. ### Is React Native good enough for a production app? Yes. React Native is built and maintained by Meta and powers some of the most heavily used consumer apps in the world, and its current architecture renders through real native components, so performance holds up well beyond what cross-platform once implied. Just as important for the life of your product: it's among the most widely adopted mobile frameworks, with one of the deepest hiring pools in software, so the codebase we hand you can be maintained by almost any React developer rather than a specialist you have to hunt for. ### Can a React Native app share code with my website? Yes, and it's React Native's most underrated advantage. Because the app is written in TypeScript inside the React ecosystem, business logic, API clients, validation, and design tokens can be shared directly with a React or Next.js website, so features ship to mobile and web together. And if your team already writes React for the web, they can read, review, and eventually own the mobile codebase without learning a new language or framework. ## Who we are We're a California-based agency that ships cross-platform mobile apps in React Native, and what sets us apart is the way we work: senior engineers and AI side by side, from the first architecture decision to the release build. React Native lets one TypeScript codebase serve both the App Store and the Play Store, and because it lives in the JavaScript ecosystem, one of the largest and most mature in software, our AI-accelerated process has an enormous body of proven patterns to draw on. The result is a small senior team moving at the pace two platform teams used to require, writing code that stays readable to any React developer you ever hire. Every engagement gets a fractional product team: design, engineering, and product management working as one group, so you're never coordinating a roster of separate vendors. AI absorbs the scaffolding, the boilerplate, and much of the test writing; our engineers spend that reclaimed time on what makes a React Native app feel native rather than merely cross-platform: navigation architecture, native module integration, animation and gesture performance, and keeping the JavaScript thread fast under real-world load. Some clients come to us as founders who need to reach both app stores, and often the web, with one product; others are companies whose teams already write React and want mobile without adopting a second, unfamiliar stack. Either way, you end the engagement owning a clean TypeScript codebase in one of the most widely adopted frameworks in mobile, backed by Meta and a deep hiring pool, so you're never locked into us or into a niche technology. And in every case you get the same working rhythm: a compact senior team amplified by AI, short cycles, and updates plain enough that the state of your build is never a mystery. ## What we do AI runs through every stage of our React Native process: it helps plan the architecture, scaffolds components and screens, joins our senior engineers in code review, and generates test coverage that exercises iOS and Android together. Everything is TypeScript end to end, so types flow from your API layer to the screen and the code AI helps produce is verifiable rather than taken on faith. We build on Expo when it fits, using EAS builds, streamlined store submission, and over-the-air updates that push fixes to users without waiting on app review, and drop to bare React Native when a product needs custom native modules. When your roadmap includes the web, we pair the app with React or Next.js so business logic, API clients, and design tokens are shared instead of rewritten. We work in short, visible cycles and test on physical iOS and Android hardware from the first sprint, so neither platform waits until the end for attention. Continuous integration and automated testing run from day one, and we lean on React Native's mature ecosystem, with proven libraries for payments, auth, maps, notifications, and analytics, instead of reinventing infrastructure your users will never see. We handle both app store submissions, and after launch, over-the-air updates keep your improvement cycle measured in hours, not review queues. ## What's included in React Native Mobile App Development? - **React Native iOS & Android App Development** — A production-grade app for iOS and Android built from one React Native and TypeScript codebase, with AI accelerating every step and a senior engineer signing off on every line it helps produce. We own the full build: architecture, feature development, native module integration, and submission to both the App Store and the Play Store. One team and one schedule carry you onto both storefronts, and the codebase you keep is one any React developer can pick up and extend. - **Unified React Codebase for Mobile & Web** — For products that need a website as well as an app, we pair React Native with React or Next.js so both are built in one language and one ecosystem. Business logic, API clients, validation, and design tokens are written once in TypeScript and shared, which means features land on mobile and web together instead of drifting apart. AI-accelerated development compounds the savings: the repetitive work is generated once, reviewed once, and shipped everywhere your users are. - **Expo Deployment & Over-the-Air Updates** — App-store launch handled end to end on Expo's tooling: EAS builds, TestFlight and Play Console distribution, and submission to both stores with review requirements handled before they become rejections. After launch, over-the-air updates let us push fixes and improvements straight to your users' devices without waiting days on app review, a release cadence separately built native apps can't match. You get launch infrastructure that keeps working for the life of the product, not just launch week. ## Links - Full page: https://www.dreamlabs.pro/services/react-native-mobile-app-development - Offerings & pricing: https://www.dreamlabs.pro/offerings - Contact: https://www.dreamlabs.pro/contact