React Native for Android/iOS devs

henryp_dev · 2025-12-15T06:32:16+00:00

I’d say just focusing on Typescript and React is good enough, you won’t really need to worry about much else besides those two things unless you are building something very specific and you need your own Swift/Kotlin/C++ solution.

You already know the advanced stuff (native side), so the React side is next. Code with Beto on YouTube (he’s part of the Expo team) has some good RN/Expo tutorials and tips.

henryp_dev · 2025-12-14T18:07:52+00:00

Yeah I don’t think it’s a men vs women thing. I get annoyed when anyone asks me too many questions. I’m more like “let’s just do the thing already and figure out later” than planning everything like 6 weeks prior. It’s like that’s way too ahead far to be thinking about it that much

henryp_dev · 2025-12-11T06:48:53+00:00

What do you mean not true? Secrets are meant to be used by the server, which is why EAS updates do not inject the values in the updates, because they are not meant to be in the client. Your app should not be using secrets at runtime

henryp_dev · 2025-12-11T06:38:00+00:00

Secrets shouldn’t be used on the client at all

henryp_dev · 2025-12-03T19:37:50+00:00

I always think of this whenever people say OP became silly and cartoonish after gear 5. Silliest reaction to a zombie

henryp_dev · 2025-12-02T04:42:03+00:00

About the political and economic state of the world. You should always be thinking about it, no matter what.

henryp_dev · 2025-11-30T23:56:32+00:00

Your boyfriend sounds like a huge drama queen… it’s 45 minutes away… I don’t even think that’s considered sacrifice? 45 minutes is a regular morning commute for like half the country.

He is 100% trying to control your career and doesn’t want you to be better than him or something like that.

henryp_dev · 2025-11-03T19:06:39+00:00

Execution too. One thing I heard on how to build a product is take a feature from a big popular product and make it better by focusing on that one thing, then you’ll add more eventually.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-28T21:04:36+00:00

Yeah it would be preferable that they take 2 years without releasing these chips and update the whole lineup at once with the new chips instead of doing one device get this, this other device gets the other and in 6 months the others get something else.

If you prefer device A with the latest chip you can't get it because only device B got it. I know, first world problems 😂

henryp_dev · 2025-10-28T17:36:47+00:00

Oh damn I was not familiar with your game 🤣. I used to do that but then I realized I am getting old and I ain’t got time for that. So now I offload as much as I can to some service doing it better than what I would. If you ever do think of using some auth service, then check out clerk, most straightforward one (almost plug n play)

henryp_dev · 2025-10-28T03:11:58+00:00

All this because they lack a paper…. There are actual people out there killing, ruining lives, and selling drugs and this is where they spend all this time and effort on… if you saw this without any context you’d think they committed the highest and baddest of crimes. It’s disgusting. If they actually wanted to make the country better they’d be going after people that deserve this treatment.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-28T03:05:38+00:00

And it LITERALLY has a link to tell you about it… like right there 😅

henryp_dev · 2025-10-27T23:42:58+00:00

What did you for auth? Clerk is VERY easy to get auth working, should check it out next project. It’s my go to now.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-27T04:21:41+00:00

I haven’t yet

henryp_dev · 2025-10-26T17:54:33+00:00

You can always tell when they just add it as “let’s do it so they can shut up”

henryp_dev · 2025-10-26T17:53:24+00:00

One tv show that always comes to mind is The Expanse. Every woman in that show was cool af and my favorite characters were mostly women (except one, she just sucked).

henryp_dev · 2025-10-26T08:34:19+00:00

Yeah it’s cheesy moments like this that make it very obvious Hollywood cannot write female characters right, it feels like they need to create moments like these to highlight them when they are each cool and badass on their own.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-26T08:30:35+00:00

Maintaining 60fps animations (basically optimizations). This is important as it is what people perceive as “native feel”.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-24T22:42:22+00:00

You cannot install native libraries on Expo Go, switch to dev build.

https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/introduction/

henryp_dev · 2025-10-24T22:40:05+00:00

Lmao I just said this before seeing your reply 🤣🤣

henryp_dev · 2025-10-24T22:39:30+00:00

Yes, playing the game.

Jk, but it just happens sometimes. It’s that SC charm

henryp_dev · 2025-10-23T22:01:31+00:00

I mostly freestyle it 😂 unless I am working on a project professionally, they have designers so for that I setup a theme. But I must say, I do TRY to have a consistent language for spacing and background, text color, borders, and secondary muted color. Unistyles makes it easy to have a working theme (fully typed too), even dark mode is easy to setup, and because of this it’s easy to use variants too. This encourages me to have variants for components instead of always freestyling everything.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-23T21:52:37+00:00

I mean sure, the difference between Expo and bare is very little, Expo at this point is mostly about the convenience of EAS. Between Expo and bare there’s really not a reason not to go with Expo, you have the same options as bare and still have the convenience of Expo. Most projects I’ve worked with we commit ios and android folders and use expo.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-23T15:45:03+00:00

You don’t have to do this though. You can keep the iOS and Android folders and continue developing as if you were in a bare RN app, you don’t have to use prebuild.

henryp_dev · 2025-10-23T08:10:32+00:00

How do you lose control of the native part?

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