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Shopify moves from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin as coding agents reduce dual-platform cost
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Shopify is migrating its mobile apps from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin because LLM-based coding agents have reduced the cost of maintaining two separate platform implementations.
This signals that cross-platform frameworks' core advantage, avoiding duplicate implementation work, may be eroding as AI coding assistants make native development for each platform more affordable. Teams that chose React Native primarily to avoid building features twice may need to reassess whether native now offers better platform alignment at comparable cost. The transition also affects the React Native ecosystem, as Shopify will hand off or archive widely-used open-source libraries.
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Shopify is migrating its mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin development.
Coding agents can now implement features on one platform using the other as a reference, reducing the dual-platform cost that motivated the original React Native adoption.
Shopify will fork React Native Skia, seek new stewards for FlashList, and archive Restyle with maintenance ending at the close of 2026.
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