Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
SumitGup · x · 2026-09-11
Shopify announced it is migrating all of its mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin. The company says going all-in on React Native in 2020 was hugely successful and saved significant development time, but is now reversing course — a notable signal for cross-platform framework adoption.
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