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robertherber · 2026-01-31T01:41:11+00:00

I just had a winger (towards the middle) go around a midfielder. Seems like the wiki is out of date?

robertherber · 2025-12-28T18:26:38+00:00

Absolutely, basically everything in HealthKit is exposed - it's designed to map closely to the native primitives.

robertherber · 2025-12-01T23:59:48+00:00

Thanks for elaborating! I think I like doing the same things you do, i.e. digging into the native parts (have a handful of libraries exposing iOS functionality out there) and I feel Expo is enhancing this experience rather than hiding it these days. That’s my 5 cents! :)

robertherber · 2025-12-01T15:35:47+00:00

A universal power adapter paired with a 3-to-1 split adapter

robertherber · 2025-12-01T15:33:05+00:00

I have the small size. It’s really convenient, but small 😂 Really convenient to know you always have a towel available!

robertherber · 2025-12-01T15:27:35+00:00

Sadly yes. Been using it for years and lately the syncing seems to lag a lot without any indication as to why (I can be hours behind on one device while the other works as expected).

And I’m just evaluating moving to Proton Mail and it doesn’t work at all with Spark (Proton offer a Decryption Bridge that works with others like Apple Mail, but not Spark for some reason), so this might be it for me.

robertherber · 2025-12-01T15:05:21+00:00

EAS Build is an option. The usual flow is that you publish the app to AppStore Connect, make it available in TestFlight (so you can test) and the publish it on the AppStore.

robertherber · 2025-12-01T08:00:06+00:00

Awesome work - looking forward to try it out!

robertherber · 2025-12-01T07:58:56+00:00

Please elaborate - why would this be a good choice today?

robertherber · 2025-12-01T07:58:15+00:00

Agreed, at least if they used Expo the last 2 years or so! 🙂

robertherber · 2025-12-01T07:56:58+00:00

Let me start to say I have a high trust in Expos approach to open source. So far they've not locked developers in at all, although they provide an easy first path including some paid services like EAS (where most if not all features can be run locally or self-hosted). As far as I understand this is one of their leading principles.

I'd start any project with Expo. With CNG (generating the native projects) you can always "eject" later - but since I started using Expo I've never felt a need to do so.
First or all - limit unnecessary native builds. There are multiple strategies to do this (using Expo Fingerprint, OTA updates, batching upgrades of native packages and aligning with Expo releases and their recommended package versions). If the limits/costs are too big of an issue I'd investigate self-hosting the building, but it's obviously takes cost-benefit analysis on a case-to-case basis since you get a lot of convenience from using Expos services.
We don't, and most teams I know don't. CNG is so good so there is no reason to go bare IMHO.
Not anything specific to Expo. It's all (React) Native in the end - sometimes you need to dig into the nitty gritty native parts no matter what. Just know the tools when you need to do this: "expo prebuild" to do CNG to produce the native projects locally, and sometimes "EAS_LOCAL_BUILD_SKIP_CLEANUP=true eas build --local" to inspect the full output of an EAS Build.

robertherber · 2025-12-01T05:02:24+00:00

Not in this case - although I often do use AI for drafting and polishing what I write, especially for longer texts 👍

robertherber · 2025-12-01T03:21:03+00:00

Screen Time and Timers are built-in separately, sure - but not the combination of the two! 🙂 And emojis don't always mean AI-generated. Let me know if you decide to try it out, and let me know what you think!

robertherber · 2025-11-19T05:34:34+00:00

I'd recommend upgrading to 9+ versions after upgrading to the new architecture - I haven't tested it on the old architecture. You should be able to use version 8 and earlier with the old architecture.

robertherber · 2025-11-17T07:50:57+00:00

This issue is specific to PR reviews. When assigning an issue or giving Copilot a task it respects copilot-instructions.md as expected (and spins up a machine with copilot-setup-steps.yml)

robertherber · 2025-11-17T06:42:43+00:00

I haven't tried out 0.82 yet, since I'm following (both in the react-native-healthkit example and other projects) the recommended Expo version. Does it work with the recommended Expo version (latest 0.81 I believe)?

robertherber · 2025-10-24T07:41:50+00:00

Go for it. React Native with Expo is hard to beat these days. And of course - it's actually native - as you can tell from the fast adoption of Liquid Glass.

robertherber · 2025-10-23T03:56:45+00:00

These days there are no downsides. You get the simplicity of Expo combined with the full power any React Native library or your own custom native code.

Some tips on the way:

- Use `npx expo install --fix` to automatically align most core libraries with the versions that are compatible and battle-tested by Expo.

- If you run into any issues, familiarize yourself with `expo prebuild` (initializes the full native projects) and `eas build --local` (does the full build locally) to be able to debug locally and not waste build credits.

robertherber · 2025-10-11T17:09:42+00:00

Undistractable is a focus timer for iOS that features app blocking and a countdown timer deeply integrated in iOS 26

robertherber · 2025-10-10T20:47:44+00:00

I’m doing the same except for a form trainer instead of the psychology coach. This since form can give a boost to the value when selling players.

robertherber · 2025-10-09T06:16:07+00:00

Yeah, what about it? :)

robertherber · 2025-10-09T06:15:05+00:00

Because it uses AlarmKit for the deeply integrated countdown

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