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You mentioned you previously shipped iOS apps. How was the Android integration with React Native?

Is it easy for someone unfamiliar with Android dev environment to push to Play Store?

Yes, quite easy! I have very little android dev experience. Android integration was excellent, I had zero issues. It was easy to ship to the play store (faster and less painful than iOS. And if you need to modify something, you don't need to wait days to get it re-approved).

If you're playing "within the bounds" of what React Native provides, it's wonderful. If you're doing some fairly custom things you may need to drop down and write Native Modules ( https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-... ), but the ecosystem is growing so fast that there are so many third party libraries that cover many of the custom things you'd want to do ( https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native )

thanks! this is really good news. I'm sort of in the same shoes as you. I work as an iOS developer and I wrote React for fun on the side.

Knowing how easy to is to ship to Android Studio is an added benefit.

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