Lynx: Ship Native at Scale and Velocity

Native is a necessity

For the generation of digital natives, mobile phones — and the apps on them — are their first digital experiences. For these app-centric users, a non-native experience isn’t just inconvenient; it’s a red flag.

A blank screen, a 0.1s lag in a “like” animation, or an unfamiliar UI pattern can make an interface feel “cheap” or untrustworthy. We believe that native primitives and responsiveness aren’t just nice-to-haves — native is a necessity.

Despite the rapid growth of the app economy, delivering such experiences at scale and velocity remains a challenge. The growing diversity of form factors and platforms forces developers to rebuild the same experiences multiple times, leading to wasted effort, siloed teams, and delayed time-to-market. By enabling developers to build once and reach more platforms, Lynx aims to bring delightful native experiences to users — faster and more efficiently.

TikTok, known as a mobile-first platform, gradually adopted Lynx and continues to bet on it. Today, Lynx powers everything from the lightweight Search panel to the fully-featured TikTok Studio app; from complex…