An industry leader turning ideas into software that people love: AgileEngine

AgileEngine evolved from a small team and one proprietary product to more than 1000 experts building impactful software for Fortune 500 brands and most-funded startups. AgileEngine’s team spans some of the world’s leading talent hubs in the Americas, Europe, and Asia while growing at up to 70% per year. Driven by research and data, AgileEngine design products that reflect business goals and end-user needs. Agile Design Studio is part of AgileEngine, a software product development company with a wealth of knowledge in SaaS, B2B, B2C solutions and consumer apps.

Industry-leading brands like Indeed, Groupon and many others have partnered with us to take their digital products to the next level.

Google Cloud partner

AgileEngine is now officially a Google Cloud partner, a new milestone marking the growth of the company’s technical capabilities. The recognition from Google also reflects the company’s engineers’ proficiency and experience in the development and scaling of Google Cloud solutions across a wide array of client companies and industries. The cloud projects driven by AgileEngine range from e-commerce and telecom to media, EdTech, logistics, healthcare, and real estate. Armed with the expertise of its dedicated teams, AgileEngine’s clients have made their IoT architectures 90% more cost-efficient and their analytics 12 times faster. The cloud solutions AgileEngine has built scale beyond 200 million users and meet the high standards of Fortune 500 companies.

Officially featured on the Google Cloud partner network, AgileEngine has now joined the ranks of prominent technology companies, including MongoDB, Deloitte, and Accenture. Created to highlight vendors, service providers, and equipment manufacturers, the Google Cloud Partner program reflects the track record of customer success demonstrated by partner companies. The certification also offers the tools, training, and product roadmaps to help its partner network maximize the value delivered to clients via Google Cloud solutions. By joining the partner network, companies get new opportunities to innovate, collaborate with the Google Cloud team, and expand their offering to their customers.

Use react native for your mobile app

There’s been quite a buzz about React Native lately. The brainchild of both Facebook and the open source community, this mobile development framework has attracted many positive reviews. In particular, working with this framework made one iOS developer goes as far as to claim he might never write an iOS app in Objective-C or Swift again.

Seems like a bold statement, doesn’t it?

What’s more, React Native is gaining traction among big market players. Netflix and Airbnb are already using it for their apps. Microsoft is bringing React Native to Windows and Xbox, and Samsung will be making it a part of Tizen, its proprietary OS for smart devices. The examples of iOS and Android apps built with React Native include Facebook, Discovery VR, Baidu, and the SoundCloud Pulse.

With so many big names on the list, you might wonder if this framework will suit your next project. So what is it that React Native has to offer?

Speed booster for native app development

In a nutshell, React Native is a JavaScript library for building mobile apps. It allows developers to write mobile applications in JavaScript instead of using platform-specific languages (Objective-C or Swift for iOS and Java for Android).

The advantages of this approach are obvious if you are working with a team of experienced Javascript developers — especially if they are comfortable with ReactJS. But there’s a lot more to React Native than enabling web developers to create native apps.

Development with React Native produces reusable code which saves you time and money. Having the same program components shared by different app versions means less time spent on development, testing, and debugging, as well as simpler and faster updates.

But how much code is reusable? According to DevBridge, iOS and Android versions of the same React-based mobile app can share about 80% of common code.

Native to the bone

So far, you might’ve gotten an impression of reading about another “write once, run anywhere” solution, but this is absolutely not the case with React Native. And, actually, it is the good news.

If the phrases “JavaScript library for building mobile apps” and “write once, run anywhere” ring a bell, chances are you’re familiar with Cordova or frameworks like Ionic and Sencha Touch. While these frameworks are conceptually similar to React Native, there is a huge difference in the way they handle app architecture.

Cordova-based frameworks place HTML, CSS, and Javascript code inside of components called WebViews. What this approach brings you is, essentially, one code base running on Android, iOS, Windows, or other platforms. Mind that this code base is that of a Web app because it renders via HTML and CSS.

Now, Web apps can be great. However, they can’t quite match the look and feel of a native app — especially when it comes to subtle animations, scrolling acceleration, or similar things. Subtleties of this sort are exactly where React Native shines.

Instead of targeting HTML, the components of React work with native UI widgets. To do this, the framework uses views () that render into UIView on iOS or android.view on Android. If necessary, native components written in Java, Objective-C, or Swift can interact with React’s JavaScript via native modules.

With this approach, you need to develop different versions of the app for different platforms. However, both the performance and the look and feel of the end product are a lot closer to what you’d expect from a native application.

Wrap-up: How react native can benefit your app

Summing it all up, there are multiple reasons for you to choose React Native over other mobile development platforms:

• With React Native, you can optimize human resources by having the same specialists work on iOS and Android versions of your app.
• With 80% of code shared by your iOS and Android app, you will greatly enhance the speed of production and updates.
• React Native outperforms hybrid frameworks in terms of performance and the look and feel of the end product.
• Thanks to a more direct integration with native components of an app, you can combine native code with React’s JavaScript. In fact, this is exactly what Facebook did with its own mobile app.
• React Native benefits from a growing community of JavaScript and ReactJS developers. Aside from that, its ecosystem is supported and developed by Facebook.

Alex Kalinovsky, CEO

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