Recently, I was onboarded to a React Native project on a new developer laptop. I realized that the initial setup to launch the app had a few tricks and small gotchas that weren’t obvious at first. Here’s a simple breakdown that will hopefully help if you need it! Setting Up Developer Tools Before configuring platform-specific […] The post A Beginner’s…
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12 Apr
The OM-84 Omnichord, released in 1984 Outside of my 9-to-5 job as a software engineer, I play keys in a six-person cover band. A few months back, our drummer came into rehearsal exclaiming, “Georgia, you won’t believe what I found on Facebook Marketplace!” He reached into his backpack and pulled out an Omnichord. What the […] The post How to…
13 Nov 2025
How Nativewind can speed up your React Native Development If you're anything like me, after working on a few web projects with Tailwind, it can feel like a drag to return to stacks that use other styling libraries. Tailwind has become, for myself, and many other developers, a standard styling paradigm. When starting my most recent React Native project, I…
12 Feb 2024
In today’s competitive world of Mobile app development, it’s essential to create apps that are not only feature-rich but also lightweight. Studies show that for every 6MB increase in the app size, there’s a decrease in install conversion rate by 1%. Therefore, with the increasing demand for faster downloads and better user experiences, app size has become crucial to increase…
12 Oct 2018
“It works on my machine” is something you don’t want to experience in your team. This is especially true when working on a React Native Application as your team might consist of Android Experts, iOS Experts, and Javascript Experts. The all know their part of the development environment very well, but errors in other parts might seem very alien to…
24 Jul 2018
After building an intro on how to upload videos with React Native I would like to go a step further and build live streaming . For me this means that a user should be able to start a video stream that someone else might subscribe to and see a near real-time video. Our first challenge will be to get a…
16 Jul 2018
Almost two years ago I gave Ignite by Infinite Red a try and I was instantly hooked. It was a super convenient and fast way to start a new project with React Native that solves all the hard setup problems for you. Today I would like to explore with you what happened with Ignite besides a major release . How…
10 Jul 2018
In one of my last blog posts, Samuel Omole asked me if I could do an article about uploading content with React Native. For me the most interesting content to upload are videos, they are fun to watch. Also, they open up cool opportunities to do super cool stuff like streaming, so there might be a part two on this…
12 Jun 2018
Lately at work, my colleagues build some awesome tooling to fetch data in an easy way. It’s built around RxJS, which I previously had very little knowledge about. I saw cool ways of getting and combining data, which inspired me to build a little game with RxJS in React Native. The game idea is to have a ball on a…
14 May 2018
One of the most exciting strengths of React Native is that it allows you to bridge native calls to Javascript. In contrast to other frameworks that pre-define what can be executed on the native side React Native is easily extensible. With great power comes great responsibility The React Native community is hard to compare with others, you have a lot…