Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
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Shopify moved major mobile apps from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin after finding it became easier and cheaper to maintain two native implementations with coding agents. It cites the shift as making dual-native maintenance less costly than before. This changes its mobile engineering approach by using Helix to split migrations into small, tested checkpoints with visual and adversarial reviews.
Why it matters
Shopify is moving major mobile apps from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin because maintaining two native implementations has become easier/cheaper with coding agents. The team also describes its Helix workflow for breaking migrations into small, tested checkpoints with visual and adversarial review.