Achieved a 150% Increase in User Base for Health and Wellness Mobile App with React Native

Health and wellness apps have become increasingly popular, catering to individuals striving for better health and fitness. Developing such apps require a delicate balance of functionality, usability, and cross-platform compatibility. In fact, the fitness apps market worldwide is poised to achieve a revenue of US$6.86bn by 2024.

While looking at this data, we can assure you that - React Native emerges as a powerful framework for developing cross-platform mobile applications for the healthcare industry. Due to its efficiency, flexibility, and rich ecosystem of libraries and components, React Native has turned out to be a great choice for developing cross-platform health and wellness mobile applications.

In fact, leveraging React Native's ability to reuse code across iOS and Android not only reduces development time but also ensures a consistent user experience on both platforms.

This tech study underscores our expertise in utilizing React Native for crafting health and wellness apps, showcasing the platform's distinct features and functionalities that cater specifically to the health sector.

This tech study, focusing on a mHealth application using React Native, aims to integrate with Health Connect for HealthKit on iOS and Health Connect on Android, showcasing the seamless integration of health data from both ecosystems in our application.

With a plethora of experience and expertise in cross platform app development, our developers knew how React Native could help them streamline the development process for health and wellness mobile apps.

React Native: A Foundation for Cross-Platform Development

Being an experienced cross-platform app development company, we were aware that React Native has great potential, particularly in the healthcare sector. Our React Native developers had good expertise in utilizing one of its key components – react-native-fitness library, which allows seamless interaction with Apple HealthKit and Google Fit. This library supports both iOS and Android platforms, ensuring that applications deliver a consistent experience across different devices.

In addition, the ecosystem also includes powerful tools like Expo SDK, although we were aware it doesn’t provide direct integration with Apple HealthKit and Google Fit. Therefore, we had to use Oauth2 in the Managed workflow for Google Git and a Bare workflow to integrate HealthKit to utilize health services. This flexibility in workflow options highlights React Native's adaptability in handling various development scenarios, catering to the specific needs of healthcare app development.

Moreover, React Native’s architecture supports a wide range of third-party libraries and tools, which has helped us integrate device sensors, camera capabilities, and external APIs for services like medical management, tracking, and appointment scheduling.

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Integrating Health Data from Apple HealthKit and GoogleFit

Setting Up Permissions and Access

While setting up permissions for mobile devices, such as iOS and Android, we had to integrate Apple HealthKit and GoogleFit, respectively.

Let’s understand how we did it.

Apple HealthKit Integration:

Apple HealthKit is built into iOS, providing users with comprehensive health data such as workouts, sleep, and nutrition.

Here, we use the rn-apple-healthkit package to facilitate this integration, which requires the app to be open in the background and the device to be unlocked to access the data.

GoogleFit Integration:

GoogleFit focuses on fitness metrics like workout intensity and daily movement.

We use the react-native-google-fitness module to manage GoogleFit data.

Implementing Health and Wellness Features in React Native Application

We wanted to feature a step counter in an animated ring. Hence, we used SVG and react-native-reanimated for smooth animations.

We wrote a code for step data that is directly fetched from these health APIs. This delivers real-time tracking and updates.

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Building a User-Centric Wellness Experience

React Native, with its cross-platform capabilities, plays a pivotal role in this integration, which helped us to implement features that enhance user engagement and satisfaction without compromising performance.

Our healthcare mobile app includes various health management functionalities:

Medication Management: We have integrated a robust medication management system with reminders and tracking, which helps users adhere to their medication schedules, thereby improving health outcomes.

Fitness and Wellness Tracking: We also integrated fitness and wellness tracking within the app to encourage users to maintain healthy lifestyles by monitoring their physical activities and nutritional intake.

By focusing on these key areas, we ensured that our health and wellness app developed using React Native not only meets the practical needs of users but also enhances their overall health management experience.

Features We Integrated for a Health and Wellness Mobile Application

The cross platform mobile app we developed for our healthcare client is an all-in-one solution that would satisfy the user’s fitness goals without having to incur expenses on gym memberships.

We integrated following features while developing a fitness app:

• AI is being used to track progress and monitor the results of the workout.
• Tracking and recording steps when exercising outside.
• Personalized workout journals, including workout plans.
• Calculating and establishing goals for wellness metrics such as heart rate, glucose, and calories burned.
• Nutrition and wellness recommendations based on Machine Learning.
• Motivating users with reminders and push messages.
• Establishing connections via audio/video streaming with fitness partners and personal trainers.
• Integration with third-party gadgets and wearables like sports bracelets, smartwatches, clip-ons, etc.
• Support for creating profiles, sharing one’s achievements, and offline mode.
• Add-ons like timers, gamification, integration with music apps, etc.
• Professional schedule management module for private trainers.

What Made Us Choose React Native Over Other Technologies for Our Health and Wellness Mobile App

While selecting the technology stack for our health and wellness cross-platform mobile applications, we carefully evaluated various frameworks and technologies. Ultimately, we chose React Native due to several compelling reasons that align closely with our project requirements and development objectives.

Cross-Platform Compatibility

Due to a single codebase functionality for both iOS and Android platforms, React Native helped us reduce development time and costs compared to maintaining separate codebases for each platform.

Native-Like Performance

Performance is an essential part of health and wellness applications when it comes to real-time data processing and interactions. Cross platform mobile app framework – React Native leverages native components and optimizes performance by rendering code to native APIs, which helped us deliver smoother animations, faster load times, and responsiveness.

Integration with Backend Services

Considering future needs, our custom mobile application development relied on backend services for user authentication, data storage, and real-time updates. React Native seamlessly integrates with various backend frameworks and technologies. That made it easier for us to connect our app to cloud services, APIs, and databases.

Scalability

React Native’s flexibility allowed us to introduce new features, optimize performance, and adapt to changing requirements without compromising on user experience or development efficiency.

Outcomes Achieved by Using React Native in Healthcare Industry

The outcomes achieved by utilizing our React Native app development services in the healthcare industry have been significant. We have witnessed a huge positive impact on user engagement metrics, with users spending an average of 30 minutes daily on the app. Client’s user base has grown substantially, with a 150% increase in six months across iOS and Android platforms. The app has successfully tracked and analyzed over 5 million health data points, providing valuable insights to users.

Our great expertise in React Native application development has helped our clients achieve a 99.5% crash-free session rate, ensuring a reliable user experience. These magnificent results define our in-depth expertise in mobile application development and our ability to deliver impactful solutions in the healthcare sector.