Mobile App Overview
How Sellrn's mobile app export works — converting your storefront pages into a native iOS and Android app using Expo and React Native.
Sellrn can export your storefront as a native mobile app for iOS and Android. The app uses Expo (React Native) and displays your pages, products, and checkout — all driven by the same content you manage in the Sellrn dashboard.
How it works
Sellrn uses a Mobile Manifest — a JSON file published to a URL — to deliver your store's structure to the mobile app. The Expo starter app fetches this manifest at launch and renders your pages natively.
The mobile pipeline has three parts:
- You design pages in the Sellrn Page Builder using universal bricks.
- Sellrn generates the Mobile Manifest — a structured representation of your pages in a format the mobile app understands.
- The Expo starter app fetches the manifest and renders your pages as native React Native components.
Universal bricks
Only universal bricks are included in the mobile export. Web-only bricks (those with a browser icon in the Bricks panel) are skipped. When you open Dashboard → Mobile app, Sellrn shows a coverage report — the percentage of your page content that will render in the mobile app.
AI mobile page generation
You can generate a mobile-optimised version of any page using AI. Open Dashboard → Mobile app → Generate mobile page, describe the page, and the AI builds a layout using only universal bricks — ensuring full mobile compatibility.
The Expo starter
Sellrn provides a pre-built Expo starter app (available on GitHub) that is already wired to read the Mobile Manifest. You download it, add your manifest URL, and build it with Expo. No React Native experience is required to get a basic app running — though customisation requires knowledge of React Native.
What the mobile app supports
- Storefront pages (home, about, landing pages) from universal bricks.
- Product catalog — browsing, search, product detail pages.
- Cart and checkout (via Stripe mobile SDK).
- Customer login and account management.
- Script Endpoints (custom API calls to your Sellrn backend).
- Push notifications (via Expo Push Notifications).
App Store submission
After building the app with Expo, you submit it to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store following their standard processes. Sellrn does not manage submission on your behalf, but the export documentation walks through the steps.
See "Exporting Your Mobile App" for the full step-by-step build and submission guide.