Lastly, while we generally recommend running our React Native app from the terminal (more information on this in the last chapter of this blog!) we can also load up our React Native app in Xcode and run it from there, which lets us use all of the powerful features that Xcode has to offer.Īndroid Studio is Google's IDE (integrated development environment) for Android app development. Xcode also comes with an iOS 'simulator', which lets us run iOS apps on our Mac to see how they'll look and function. We need it for React Native in order to use its build tools, which allows us to compile the native code necessary to build React Native apps. It supports the Objective-C and Swift languages. Xcode is Apple's IDE (integrated development environment) for building Mac, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps.
You're interested in developing React Native on your macOS computer - yay! However, installing React Native can be kind of tricky, there are a lot of different pieces to connect for both iOS development and Android.
