You always still needed a specialist per-platform even if most of the code was RN or KMM[0]. But I agree - a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea.

[0] I always thought the best answer was something like KMM to do all the backend comms and local data model in a shared way, and then a bespoke UI building on what that shared code exposed.

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dd8601fn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea.

Hi. That’s me… not-great mobile app maker. And yes, I’m grateful that RN exists.

Mostly what it does is make sure that an Android version of things exist at all.

	▲	robertlagrant 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hello! As I'm on Android, thank you for your service.