The team of SoundCloud was composed of a mixture of web and iOS developers who are in-house, and out-sourced Android muscles. This matrue and versatile setting is ideal for React Native development, which is proven to be competent by their product. SoundCloud is rated as 4.5 and 4.6 in App Store and Google Play respectively, and is ranked as top 5 in the music category.
The motivation of React Native adoption are three, 1) it is hard to find iOS developers for their second set of apps; 2) they want immediate shipment of Android after the iOS one; 3) the team is excited about React Native. It takes 12 month persons to complete the first version including tests. For UI, “entire screens are finished in single days”.
The effortless migration from existing native infrastructure is the key makes their jouney enjoyable. These include 1) existing native libraries which are bridged out using native module with ease; 2) existing web libraries are used with very minor changes; and 3) acceptance tests and CI which are almost identical to existing parities.
They also mentioned the open source community and the smooth development experience also provide with positive moral and fast turnaround.
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