Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026) - Shopify

kept by eddie sep 11

Shopify is moving its major mobile apps from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin, using LLMs to cut the cost of building and maintaining features twice.

Shopify is moving from React Native to Native (via @mustafa01ali)
Shopify announced it is migrating all its mobile applications from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin for improved performance.
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JetBrains released a preview extension bringing IntelliJ IDEA's Java and Kotlin intelligence to VS Code and Cursor via LSP, with free 30-day trials.
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vercel-react-native-skills by vercel-labs/agent-skills
A collection of best practices and rules for building React Native and Expo apps, covering performance, animations, and platform optimizations.
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