Mobx-React uses a function called unstable_batchedUpdates.
This dependency comes from react-dom (browser) or react-native (mobile).
On your mobile device you have no dom so you can not use react-dom.
So when you import 'mobx-react/native' it uses the function from the react-native package.
See here:
https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-react/blob/0e1cdc83bfb7e45a43aa9b8f23498d3c95943433/src/index.js
You can also see in mobx-react in your nodes modules folder, that the index.js (resolved when importing from 'mobx-react') gets the ReactDom as a dependency:
}(this, (function (exports,mobx,React,ReactDOM) { 'use strict';
While on the other hand importing from 'mobx-react/native', it gets reactNative as a dependency instead of the ReactDom:
}(this, (function (exports,mobx,React,reactNative) { 'use strict';
If you want to learn more about react batching updates read here: