Cross-platform mobile from one studio
Big agencies are slow to decide, and a single freelancer can struggle with the full breadth of a product. A studio-sized team sits comfortably between the two.
We bring product thinking and engineering together, so structure, UI, APIs, and the launch checklist live in one plan.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for brands searching for a React Native agency. React Native and Expo app development with production backends, payments, and store-ready delivery.
What you get
- iOS and Android apps
- Expo and native modules
- API and auth systems
- Store launch support
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your React Native agency, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On React Native app development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for remote and worldwide teams stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For React Native agency work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- React Native
- one codebase for iOS and Android, which halves the surface area you maintain after launch
- Expo
- over-the-air updates and managed builds, so shipping a fix does not mean waiting on app store review
- TypeScript
- types across the whole stack, which catches the class of bug that only shows up in production
- Firebase
- auth, push, and realtime sync without standing up your own infrastructure first
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the React Native app development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. ios and android apps lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on React Native app development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
An in-house hire
A permanent engineer is the right call once the React Native app development is continuous rather than a project. Before that point you are paying a salary, recruiting for months, and carrying the risk that the first hire is the wrong shape for the problem.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the React Native app development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
Dare To Donate
Mobile · React Native
Cross-platform blood donation app connecting donors and recipients with Firebase auth and realtime data.
Expo React Native app for donation matching with secure auth and cloud storage.
- · iOS and Android via Expo
- · Firebase auth and realtime DB
- · Donor/recipient flows
- · Secure cloud storage
React Native · Expo · Redux Toolkit · Firebase
Conference App
Mobile · Flutter · Zoom
Cross-platform conference app with Firebase auth, realtime data, and Zoom video sessions.
Freelance Flutter product covering authentication, realtime storage, and Zoom API video conferencing for event attendees.
- · Cross-platform Flutter client
- · Firebase authentication
- · Realtime event data
- · Zoom video conferencing
Flutter · Firebase · Zoom API
Agile IT Blog
Frontend · Astro
Performance-minded blog maintained in Astro with Markdown, Tailwind, and modular content integrations.
Stellar Stack content site where I improved performance and scalability across modular Astro components and data integrations.
- · Astro static content pipeline
- · Markdown-driven posts
- · Modular component structure
- · Performance and scalability pass
Astro · Markdown · Tailwind · SCSS
Where we work
International clients across US, UK, EU, Middle East, and Asia. We work remote-first, so the time zone matters less than keeping updates clear and regular. We usually collaborate in English.
