Mobile Architecture Assessment
Choose the Right
Mobile Architecture.
React Native, Swift or Kotlin - tested against your product, codebase, team and roadmap.
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The architecture decision
Keep, mix,
or rebuild?
A framework headline cannot decide what your product needs. The useful question is which constraints matter most for your application and organization now.
We compare React Native, Swift, Kotlin and mixed approaches without requiring the answer to match one staffing model.
What we evaluate
Compare the paths
against your reality
The assessment brings the decision back to evidence from:
Product: critical journeys, platform behavior, performance and reliability.
Codebase: architecture, dependencies, native modules, builds and production signals.
Roadmap: upcoming platform work and the opportunity cost of rebuilding.
Team: current capability, review capacity, hiring and long-term ownership.
Delivery economics: implementation, parity, QA, release and migration effort.
Agent readiness: specifications, tests, review gates and repository policy.
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What you receive
A decision
you can defend
A Clear Recommendation
Keep React Native, invest in native boundaries, adopt a mixed architecture or plan a staged migration.
Evidence & Trade-offs
See how each viable path affects product quality, delivery, QA, team ownership and opportunity cost.
The Smallest Safe Next Step
Leave with an immediate action, the assumptions to test and clear conditions for continuing or stopping.
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How the assessment works
Inspect. Test.
Decide.
We turn the architecture debate into a focused evidence-gathering process. Each step reduces uncertainty before you commit to a larger investment.
Frame the decision. Agree the owner, viable options, constraints and the date when the answer becomes useful.
Inspect the system. Review representative flows, architecture, dependencies, delivery setup, roadmap and team model.
Test the risky assumption. When inspection is not enough, use one vertical slice to compare effort, quality and review load.
Recommend the next move. Show the viable paths, assumptions, stop conditions and the smallest safe next step.
What we need from you
Start with
the decision.
For the first conversation, bring the decision you are trying to make, your current architecture, the main product or delivery constraint, relevant timing and the decision owner.
After scope and confidentiality are agreed, useful inputs may include a supervised code walkthrough, architecture documents, production signals, build and release workflows, and representative designs.
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Client Proof
Trusted by teams
shipping serious software
Clients choose Makers’ Den for direct senior access, clear communication and dependable delivery across complex product work.
Testimonials
Makers’ Den pitched in to help out with our frontend so we could reach pivotal milestones before deadlines. It blew us away how little onboarding they needed and were able to contribute to customer-facing features from the get-go.
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Mobile Architecture Guide
Shopify changed
the economics.
Shopify’s return to Swift and Kotlin does not mean React Native failed. It shows how coding agents can change the implementation economics behind an architecture decision.
Our guide explains what changed, what did not, and how to test the choice against your own product.
Read the Shopify decision guideMobile Architecture FAQs
Questions worth
answering before a rewrite
Is Makers’ Den recommending native instead of React Native now?
No. React Native remains a strong option when shared implementation creates real product and organizational leverage. Swift and Kotlin are strong options when platform-native capability or independent product evolution matters more. The answer is contextual.
Does Shopify’s decision mean React Native is dying?
No. Shopify describes its React Native investment as successful. Its conclusion changed because coding agents reduced implementation and parity costs for Shopify’s applications and organization.
Does an assessment require a full codebase handover?
No. Access can begin with documentation and a supervised walkthrough. A confident recommendation usually requires enough code and delivery-system context to test the important assumptions, but that can be agreed after confidentiality and scope are established.
Will you perform the migration afterward?
Makers’ Den can implement an agreed React Native improvement, native product or staged migration. The assessment stands on its own, and the recommendation does not depend on Makers’ Den receiving the subsequent build.
Can you assess a greenfield product?
Yes. The assessment then emphasizes product stage, experience, platform surface, team model, expected lifetime and representative technical spikes rather than legacy-code analysis.
I want to keep my idea confidential. Will you sign an NDA with me?
Yes, we sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) always when a client wants it. We can do it at the very beginning before we discuss your project's details, or at another stage of the process - it's up to you.
Do I own the intellectual property rights of my application?
Yes, you are the owner of Intellectual Property rights at all times.
Where is your development team located?
We are fully remote. So while we were founded and are still based in Berlin, most developers will be remote from a central European location.
What is the pricing model?
You work with us on a Time & Materials basis. The total cost depends on the actual time the team spends on the development. You are in charge of the project’s scope and set priorities for the development team.
Time & Materials allows flexibility for you to set the direction of development depending on the users’ feedback, market situation, or opportunities that arise during the development.
For more about how we create estimates read how to estimate software projects .
What would my development team look like?
We adjust the team depending on your needs. Our speciality is low overhead teams, where every member is contributing concretely towards customer facing features. That means everyone is either doing development or design.
Roles like Project Manager, Business Analyst and QA are responsibilities which are shouldered by our business oriented developers or designers.
You may take the role of a Product Owner, making decisions on priority and scope.
Can you work as an amendment to our in-house team?
Yes. We can adapt to your tools and processes. I.e. fully integrate into your existing team.
How does the company ensure code quality and maintainability?
We follow best practices, perform code reviews, implement automated testing and continuous integration to ensure code quality and maintainability. All projects are not equal though and the level of automated QA will be determined on your need for quick feedback from the market.
Can you hand the code over to another team?
Yes. We create easily understandable and maintainable code using well known frameworks which don’t require niche knowledge.
The runtime environments we can set up in your ownership from the get-go.
What is the experience level of my team?
Every team has a partner involved in the project. Our developers have a proven track record of outsized throughput. Our culture is one of delivering features every day. That's why we prefer senior developers, but not seniors that are from slow moving enterprise environments.
How am I kept up-to-date of development?
We have fixed length iterations (usually 1 week), at the end of which you will be demoed the current progress. You will have access to team members through Slack, email and video calls and our regular meetings. In addition to this you will have access to our project management tools (Jira or Asana), which we update daily.
Why hire us?
We love what we do and only employ people with a similar mindset. You ship faster by working with a small team where each developer is a focused on your business goals. With us you get direct access to everyone. This keeps overhead low and output high.
You are in control. We offer full transparency of progress and potential problems. We keep you informed and present options, but you make the decisions.
We value our client relationships and their product visions. Meet with us to see if we share the same conviction. We might be a good fit.