Mobile apps have changed the way businesses operate in our world today. Awe-inspiring things are happening in all areas of life. If you take a look, it’s easy to see that online, especially mobile presence; this is something every business is after. The reasons for these are simple and obvious, better brand awareness and you can build mutual loyalty with your customers, and your sales increase. In our world today, there is a mobile app for everything. Lots of businesses are improving their customer experience with mobile apps, and the restaurant business is no exception.

Launching a mobile app is not just submitting a binary to App Store Connect and Google Play. A good launch connects product positioning, release engineering, privacy, store assets, QA, beta testing, support, analytics, and post-launch iteration into one plan.

The Salon and Spa is one industry that’s based on repeated business. Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s spa and salon services like massages, haircuts, manicure, and pedicure were luxurious services generally provided for rich elites as it depends on affluence. In recent times, people have become more concerned about their hairstyle and overall personality. In the past, there was a usual notion that it is the females who are more concerned about their looks, hair, and skin but with the changing trends, even men are willing to groom their body and particularly take care of their hair.

Google Play publishing is no longer an "upload an APK and click publish" flow. For a modern React Native app, you need a signed Android App Bundle, a complete Play Console setup, accurate privacy declarations, current target API support, testing tracks, and a production rollout plan.

WordPress exposes a REST API that React Native apps can use for blog readers, news apps, documentation hubs, content-heavy ecommerce apps, and publisher experiences. The API is useful out of the box for public posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media, and custom content exposed by plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields.

The production challenge is not fetching one post. It is handling pagination, HTML content, media URLs, caching, empty states, authentication boundaries, and safe write operations without leaking WordPress credentials into the mobile app.

Next time you start working on a new mobile app, consider using a fully-coded react native starter kit, to speed up your development. At Instamobile, we build react native templates, to help mobile developers and small business owners launch their apps faster. We’ve compiled a list of beautiful React Native templates, that allows entrepreneurs to focus on their product, rather than on reinventing the wheel, by rewriting the boilerplate code every app has (like user authentication & sign up, Facebook login, Firebase integration, etc.).

For the current framework for comparing free, premium, and production-ready options, read The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates. This page remains a product-oriented shortlist.

If you’re a mobile developer like me, you’ve already heard about the new toy everyone is playing with these days: Flutter – Google’s open source SDK for building native apps for iOS and Android from a single codebase. In other words, it’s Google’s competing horse against Facebook’s React Native, to say the least.

In this article, we curated a list of the best Kotlin starter kits that are available as of the time of this writing. Kotlin is the new cool kid in town: Google’s new programming language for coding up Android apps. It brings up a lot of value on the table, through amazing modern features such as higher order functions and lambdas, which were not supported in Java. With Kotlin, Google is shifting the paradigm towards functional programming, which can also be seen as a response to Apple adopting Swift.

Kotlin is extremely powerful and Android developers should adopt it as soon as possible. An effective way of ramping up on Kotlin is to download an existing free starter kit, to learn practically. By getting used to the Kotlin syntax and by making a few changes to existing open-source Kotlin templates, an Android developer can quickly incorporate the new language.

Apple Pay and Google Pay can make mobile checkout faster, especially for commerce, marketplace, restaurant, delivery, booking, and service apps. Old React Native tutorials often mention Android Pay or abandoned Payment Request wrappers. For current production work, use the maintained payment SDK for your provider and keep privileged payment logic on your backend.

This guide focuses on Stripe's React Native SDK because it supports PaymentSheet and platform wallets through the same production payment flow.

React Native payment integrations have changed a lot since early checkout packages wrapped a few native payment APIs. For production apps today, Stripe's React Native SDK and PaymentSheet are the safer default for card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay, saved payment methods, and multi-method checkout.

The mobile app should never own payment secrets. It presents checkout, receives client-safe values, and shows status. A secure backend creates PaymentIntents, validates amounts, handles webhooks, and finalizes orders.