# Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs

DevFeed: [Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shopify-drops-react-native-for-swift-and-kotlin-as-ai-changes-cross-platform-development-tradeoffs-30912.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/shopify-drops-react-native/>)

Author: Bruno Couriol

Published: 2026-09-16T12:45:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [InfoQ](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/infoq.md>)

Topics: [React Native](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react-native.md>), [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Swift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swift.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>)

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## AI overview

Shopify is rewriting its flagship mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin after reassessing React Native. The decision followed the expected work to adopt React Native's New Architecture and improvements in AI coding models, which Shopify said made a clean-slate native rewrite more attractive than migration.

## Source excerpt

Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify's commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer. By Bruno Couriol