Live iOS + Android app · co-development with the internal team · complete technical onboarding
Context
Engagement: 2025–2026, with ongoing support.
The mobile app is a key digital product for Le Temps: it carries the newspaper's reading experience and brand on iOS and Android. The project also needed to help the internal engineering team regain ownership of the code and continue evolving its product.
Appik Studio worked alongside Le Temps engineers, using the design supplied by the client. The engagement combines development, knowledge transfer and ongoing support.
The challenge: a native experience with web flexibility
The aim was to deliver an experience designed for mobile while retaining the flexibility of the web for articles. Le Temps' data team needs to create and iterate on visualisations and editorial experiences without depending on a new app release for every change.
This requires careful integration between the two environments. A WebView displays web content inside the app; loading that content should not interrupt the reading experience. We worked on caching techniques to optimise WebView loading times.
The homepage presents another challenge: a long list of varied, dynamic content. Performance work focused on scrolling through this list to preserve smooth navigation.
What we built
- iOS and Android application in React Native, based on Le Temps' design.
- Reading journeys, articles, investigations, podcasts, notifications and the e-paper edition.
- Web content integrated into a native mobile experience, with caching to optimise WebView loading.
- Scrolling optimisation for the homepage and its dynamic content.
- Migration of native subscriptions to an aggregation solution, simplifying management without code for the marketing team.
- Co-development, technical onboarding and knowledge transfer to the internal team.
Project scope
| Need | Appik Studio's contribution |
|---|---|
| Regain ownership of the product | Development alongside Le Temps engineers and knowledge transfer about the code. |
| Iterate on articles and data visualisation | Integration between the native interface and the editorial and data teams' web content. |
| Preserve responsive navigation | Work on WebView caching and homepage list scrolling. |
| Simplify subscription management | Migration to a native subscription aggregation solution. |
| Support the production release | Adaptations for the iOS 26 release, followed by ongoing support. |
Delivery and ongoing support
The delivery schedule had to account for the iOS 26 release and the adaptations needed at launch. The collaboration continued after production release: in 2026, Appik Studio is still supporting Le Temps.
The React Native app is in production on iOS and Android. It combines the newspaper's native app journeys with flexible web content, with an internal team involved in development and ownership of the code.
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