{
  "id": 6645307,
  "title": "Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/native-is-now-the-future-of-mobile-at-shopify",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-10T21:11:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/10/shopify-react-native/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Shopify are moving from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases for their native apps, for the exact reason you would expect: We decided to switch from native to React Native in 2020 for three reasons: Stop building the same features twice Allow developers to work across the stack Spend less time chasing feature parity and more time…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}