Mobile.
Notes about mobile development — NativeScript, React Native, Capacitor, iPad Pro hardware, Surface Pro X, the changing shape of cross-platform development. The studio has shipped on NativeScript (Trax), Capacitor (most current mobile work), and natively where the brief required.
- 2 Dec 2025→
NativeScript vs React Native, revisited: where we landed.
Seven years on from our 2018 comparison, the landscape's moved. Capacitor showed up. React Native shipped a new architecture. NativeScript is quieter but alive. Here's the current call.
- 26 Apr 2018→
React Native vs NativeScript: shipping cross-platform in 2018.
Two ways to write one app for iOS and Android. We've shipped real production work in both. Here's the head-to-head comparison, the decision tree we apply on every brief, and the real-project case study where we picked NativeScript and it paid off.
- 2 Mar 2018→
ARKit and the AR moment that almost arrived.
Apple shipped ARKit with iOS 11. Google shipped ARCore alongside. Suddenly there are hundreds of millions of AR-capable phones. The question every brand is asking is 'what should we do with it?'. The honest answer, after six months of testing: less than they think.
- 18 Jul 2017→
Progressive Web Apps are real now.
Service workers, offline-first, installable web apps, push notifications. We've been quietly shipping PWAs in production for six months — here's what works, what doesn't, what we'd tell a client today, and where we think the platform is heading.