ArcGIS JS API and React Native?

Question

I've developed several web apps using the REST services (maps and geoprocessing tools) on our ArcGIS Server. My company wants to turn some of these into mobile apps. I can't use App Studio for ArcGIS because the vendor we are contracting with has informed us that they won't accept apps developed with App Studio. They are suggesting we use React Native to develop our apps.

Is anybody using ArcGIS JS and React Native together to create mobile apps? I've seen some examples of basic ESRI maps in React, but I can't find much with React Native. I'm a total noob to mobile app development, so I'm just trying figure out a possible workflow and exactly what I'll need as far as SDKs.

deleted-user-1_r2dgYuILKY · Answer

This is very helpful info, thank you!

ThomasSolow · Answer

As per Networking · React Native, it looks like React Native implements the fetch API and also allows you to make HTTP requests from JS via XMLHTTPRequests.  So Geoprocessing tools and other networking related things in the JS API may work, though there may be friction in places where the JS API relies on the browser API (browser cookies for example).

I should point out that you don't technically need the JS API to make requests to geoprocessing tools.  All you need to do is send HTTP requests to the proper URL with the proper parameters and wait for the response.  The JS API just provides a wrapper around that process.

It may be less of a headache to pull in a simple promise-based HTTP library (like GitHub - axios/axios: Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js) and write your own wrapper around the geoprocessing API.  You can find more information about the Geoprocessing API here: ArcGIS REST API.

deleted-user-1_r2dgYuILKY · Answer

I'm not worried about displaying maps or views. I just want to have our geoprocessing tools accessible in a mobile app.