In the beginning of August, we announced the release of our Reader SDK for iOS and Android to allow developers to build their own custom in-person payment experiences.

Now, we’ve taken that ground-breaking SDK and wrapped it up in a React Native plugin that you can use in your own React Native project. So whether you’re a cross-platform guru looking to creating the ultimate in-person payment experience or just a React hacker looking to try out something new, you can now npm install react-native-square-reader-sdk

in your project (just be sure to read our quick start guide on getting the native dependencies installed).

We released a React Native plugin for our Reader SDK to allow developers to more easily and rapidly create new in-person payment applications. We know that iOS and Android developers can just as easily use the native SDK, but here we can reach any

JavaScript developer. We even have a quick-start application that can give you a starting place for creating your very own point of sale, kiosk, or custom in-person payment experience. It’s as easy as tweaking some JSX, or creating your own components, and then connecting them to the interfaces we’ve provided.

It’s possible to get an app up and running locally within five minutes. I was even able to get a custom keypad, entering arbitrary values, in an hour (granted, I was a little rusty on my React Native when I was trying it). I’m also very much not a mobile developer, and having the application running on an iPhone and Android simulator simultaneously was so powerful for having a responsive feedback loop when developing. You can enable live reloading on each device and have all your changes reflected immediately upon saving.