Does React Native convert code to Java?

With React Native, you create one codebase that works on both Android and iOS. And it doesn’t just “work”—it compiles to native Java and Swift code.

On iOS, that means that your React Native components render to real UI Views, while on Android, they’ll render to native Views . … Instead of compiling down to native code, React Native takes your application and runs it using the host platform’s JavaScript engine, without blocking the main UI thread.25 Şub 2016

The code remains the JavaScript native code and is not converted into any other format . The hybrid apps run inside the native container app which invokes JavaScript run time engine which takes care of executing the JavaScript code.2 Nis 2017