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iPhone and iPad
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React Native Mobile App
Cross-platform social networking, community, messaging, subscription, marketplace, and business mobile apps backed by first-hand Apple App Store approval experience.
A cross-platform mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and Android from one React Native codebase, connected to your API or backend and prepared for Apple App Store and Google Play submission. Where staff need to manage users, content, reports, subscriptions, support, or analytics, I can also build a separate secure React web dashboard connected to the same backend.
Cross-platform React Native
App development backed by real App Store approval experience.
React Native and Expo make it possible to share most application code across iOS and Android while still producing platform-specific builds. I can prepare the app, icons, signing configuration, store build profiles and submission handoff for both major mobile stores. I can also integrate StoreKit for digital in-app purchases and subscriptions, or Apple Pay for eligible goods and services.
My Encrypted Messenger app passed Apple's App Review and was accepted for App Store distribution, giving me first-hand experience of preparing an iOS app to meet Apple's submission requirements. Apple controls every final approval.
Store developer accounts, signing credentials, privacy details and review approval are required. Apple and Google control final acceptance.
Google Play
Android phones and tablets
Example React Native project
Encrypted Messenger—designed and engineered by me.
This is a practical example of the type of mobile application I can create and customise for a customer. I built the application around React Native screens, a custom Node.js API, real-time communication workflows, and a MySQL data model rather than treating it as only a collection of visual template screens.
React Native is a high-level framework, so it would be technically inaccurate to call it a low-level programming language. My lower-level engineering approach refers to understanding and controlling the layers beneath the interface: API contracts, authentication, permissions, validation, database tables and relationships, server processes, environment configuration, deployment, error handling, and platform builds. AI can accelerate implementation, but I remain responsible for the architecture, testing, security decisions, and finished behaviour.
- Custom React Native user journeys
- Node.js API and backend workflows
- Purpose-designed MySQL schema
- Authentication and account controls
- Messaging, media, and call interfaces
- StoreKit and App Store preparation
Deliverables
- Cross-platform iOS and Android app screens
- Social profiles, feeds, messaging, and community workflows
- Apple App Store and Google Play build preparation
- API connection plan and reusable components
- Optional separate Phoenix React web admin dashboard connected to the same backend
- Signing, testing, and submission guidance
- StoreKit in-app purchase or Apple Pay integration where appropriate
- Optional Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) integration and test-ad configuration
Process
- Plan the mobile user journeys, administrator roles, and shared data needs.
- Build reusable React Native screens and components.
- Connect the app to your API.
- Add auth, settings, and loading states where needed.
- Build an optional separate Phoenix React web dashboard for administration.
- Prepare launch notes for iOS and Android.
Good for
- Mobile MVPs
- Customer apps
- Booking apps
- Companion apps
Preview and staged approval
Review working software before the final handoff.
I can provide secure previews throughout the agreed project so you can analyse progress, test important workflows, and request reasonable in-scope changes. The payment structure is agreed before work begins and reflects the size, risk, and engineering effort involved.
Private progress previews
I can provide a private web preview or suitable mobile test build so you can inspect agreed work before approving the next milestone or final payment.
Request included changes
You can request reasonable revisions covered by the agreed scope at no extra charge before confirming that the build is right for you.
Payment terms matched to scope
A focused lower-cost build may qualify for payment after preview. Complex custom applications require an agreed deposit or paid milestones before substantial engineering begins.
Focused websites or template-based builds may be eligible for approval and payment after a completed preview. Substantial React, React Native, Node.js, API, authentication, or MySQL projects require a deposit, paid discovery, or milestone payments because they consume significant engineering time, testing effort, infrastructure, and paid AI-development resources such as ChatGPT Codex usage. A complex completed application therefore cannot be declined without paying for work already approved and completed. New features outside the agreed scope are quoted separately. Source code, production credentials, final deployment, and third-party licences are transferred only after the final balance is paid.
Separate web administration
A Phoenix React dashboard can manage the mobile app
For most mobile products, the customer app and staff dashboard are best built as separate applications. The React Native app stays focused on the iPhone, iPad, and Android user experience, while administrators receive a secure, desktop-friendly web app for managing users, content, reports, moderation, subscriptions, support, and analytics. Both applications can use the same API and database with role-based permissions.
Keeping privileged administration outside the consumer mobile interface reduces clutter and avoids shipping staff-only screens in the app. It also gives tables, forms, charts, and operational workflows the space they need, and the web dashboard can usually be updated without waiting for another app-store release.
Phoenix React from ThemeWagon is one dashboard foundation I can evaluate, licence, and customise. I have years of hands-on experience with ThemeWagon and Bootstrap 5 templates, and can connect the dashboard to the mobile application's backend so collected data becomes useful tables, summaries, and graphs for administrators. The customer purchases the appropriate template licence separately.
The charts are selected around decisions the customer or admin actually needs to make, rather than filling a dashboard with decorative statistics. Suitability, dependency quality, accessibility, performance, security, privacy, data permissions, and required custom development are reviewed for every project.
Phoenix React + Bootstrap
The React version uses React, TypeScript, Bootstrap 5, and React-oriented packages. It is usually the closer foundation for an interactive React dashboard that needs component state, data tables, forms, charts, routing, and direct integration with a custom Node.js API.
Phoenix Tailwind CSS
The premium Tailwind version is a separate implementation built around Tailwind CSS and ThemeWagon's Hummingbird component system. Its utility-first styling offers detailed visual customisation, but it is not simply the React version with its CSS replaced. The application architecture and required integrations must be evaluated before choosing it.
ThemeWagon's All Versions product currently combines the Bootstrap, React, and Tailwind editions under one offering. The customer purchases the licence appropriate to the number of projects and intended commercial use; current contents, versions, prices, and licence terms remain controlled by ThemeWagon.
Custom admin dashboards
Useful admin dashboards and internal tools for real work.
I can design and build private admin areas for ecommerce stores, social platforms, SaaS products, React Native mobile-app backends, customer portals, and other data-driven applications. Each dashboard can be tailored to the project's database, APIs, staff roles, and everyday workflows.
- Projects, revenue, downloads, enquiries, and audience insights
- Useful operational tools connected to your real application data
- Custom Gmail-style inboxes with received messages, attachments, replies, search, workflow statuses, routing details, and useful email metadata
- Private authentication, operational logs, and file sharing
- AI-selected recent news tailored to the business, industry, risks, competitors, or technology stack
A working CodeKits example: an editorial-style private feed that continuously searches official React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, Ubuntu Server and Linux sources, prioritises consequential changes, and explains why they matter to my software-development work.
Continued support included
You are supported after purchase or delivery.
Support continues after handover, with practical help related to the delivered projectrather than leaving you with code and no direction.
Questions answered
Get clear follow-up answers about the supplied code, setup documentation, configuration, and technical handover.
Tailored command sheets
Request practical command sheets for installation, deployment, server configuration, updates, and common troubleshooting.
Engineering plans
Receive structured next-step plans covering architecture, milestones, integrations, security work, testing, and launch preparation.
Included support covers reasonable questions and guidance connected to the purchased product or agreed project scope. New features, substantial redevelopment, managed hosting, and third-party charges are quoted separately.
React Native and Expo workflow
Develop and prepare an app-store mobile build.
React Native apps are built for devices rather than hosted by Nginx. This terminal shows the Expo development and EAS build workflow, with a separate Ubuntu API health check.
- Create a typed Expo and React Native project
- Use a development build for device testing
- Prepare Android and iOS builds with EAS
- Check the separately hosted Node.js API
Final command sheets are tailored to the project and hosting setup.
✓ EAS build profiles configured✓ Android and iOS builds queued✓ Ubuntu-hosted mobile API is respondingProject inquiry
Request React Native Mobile App
Tell me what you want to build, what budget range you have, and when you want to launch. I will reply with scope questions and a custom quote.