WHAT HAPPENED
As one of the fastest growing mobile apps in the world, the Shop app serves hundreds of millions of customers and millions of merchants. Since we introduced it in 2020, Shop app has been at the forefront of Shopify’s widerinvestment in React Native, adopting the framework from its inception. That decision has served Shop app well, but our increasing ability to develop with coding agents has allowed Shop to go fully native, building with Swift and Kotlin. Why the move Wewrote in depth about our decisionto go native, but the TL;DR is that advances in coding agents changed the tradeoffs behind maintaining a shared mobile codebase. Building separately for iOS and Android still has costs, but agents made it reasonable to reconsider that decision.
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