React Native Widgets

What you'll learn
Build production-ready React Native widgets
Design reusable widget UIs that display useful data clearly on mobile home
Optimize widgets for performance, reliability, and platform behavior
Develop cross platform widgets
Requirements
This is an advanced course. It is built for developers who are already comfortable with React Native and Expo - people who have shipped an app or are actively working on one.
No experience with widgets is required
Description
The home screen is the most personal surface a user owns. Widgets live there permanently, visible before the phone is even unlocked. They are not a nice-to-have - they are one of the highest-trust placements an app can earn. A well-designed widget keeps your app present in the user's day without requiring them to open it.
Most React Native developers never ship widgets because the barrier feels high. WidgetKit is Swift-only. Jetpack Glance is Kotlin-only. Maintaining two separate native codebases for a single feature is expensive, and most teams simply skip it. Voltra removes that barrier entirely - from both platforms iOS and Android at once.
This course teaches you how to build native home screen widgets for both iOS and Android using Voltra - a library that lets you write real WidgetKit and Jetpack Glance widgets entirely in React Native components, without dropping into Swift or XML. You will learn how widget layouts differ from app screens, how to sync live data from your app to the home screen, and how to wire everything together through Expo's native build pipeline. By the end, you will have the confidence and the reusable pattern to add a widget to any React Native app you work on.
Who this course is for
If you are a React Native developer who wants to genuinely differentiate your app's presence on the device, this course gives you the exact skills to do it.