After some headaches writing shell scripts to copy all my application code and resources back and forth, I finally figured out a way to build a React Native app which actually worked on both platforms. For a while I ended up with TWO different React Native projects, one which would build and run properly only in iOS, and another which would build and run properly only in Android.

Over the last few weeks I worked on a spin-off from last year's project, and it got me a bit deeper into React Native - but I also ended up dealing with a ton of headaches getting things configured and set up properly. While React Native certainly had its headaches, it was still much easier to work with one single codebase in a fairly familiar language rather than having to maintain multiple codebases and learn multiple new languages and development stacks. I was still getting the hang of the new Swift tools for iOS, and had never done any Android development before - but I had heard interesting things about React Native, so I figured I would give it a try. Last year, I worked on a project that we had hoped would just be a mobile-savvy web page, but for various reasons we ended up needing to build native iOS and Android apps.

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