- I benchmarked my shipped Expo app against a Swift rewrite with the same XCUITest suite. Where React Native lost, and where it didn't
I have a small iOS app, Ayer, that shows the photos you took on this day in previous years. It was an Expo app. I rewrote it in Swift, and before believing it was faster I ran both through the...
86 points18 comments6 d ago
- I built a background location SDK for React Native that survives process death. Here is what I learned about the New Architecture (and why most current solutions fail).
Hey r/reactnative, I’m the author of react-native-pdf-jsi—(https://github.com/126punith/react-native-pdf-jsi) the JSI-based PDF viewer. (It recently crossed 350K+ downloads on npm, which has been...
82 points14 comments5 d ago
- [Showcase] rnui.dev: ~400 React Native animations (up from 298 in a month), sign in to save demos, plus a blog and a weekly digest
Awesome React Native UI (rnui.dev) has grown enough that I exhausted my free usage on Vercel ISR Writes (200,000 writes). (No worries, it's fixed now.) rnui.dev has almost 400 animations now. In...
46 points8 comments4 d ago
- What are you guys using to sync data between devices in React Native?
I'm building a simple expense tracking app with React Native and got most of the basic features working. Right now everything is stored on the phone but I'd like people to be able to access their...
18 points20 comments3 d ago
- Hate changing your design to fit each platform? It can and should be the other way around.
I created react-native-multicolumn-modal-picker to make it easier to adapt a picker to your app’s design while keeping a consistent look and feel across Android, iOS and Web. Try the web demo ·...
13 points2 comments6 d ago
- How do I prevent my UI from looking like AI Slop ?
I have been using AI to help me write code on a React Native App but I wanted some advice on how I can prevent it from looking like AI Slop that every other App as been looking like these days....
12 points36 comments5 d ago
- Tired of hand-rolling tablet layouts in Expo Router? I made expo-split-view (SDK 56+)
Android apps on tablets and large screens almost always feel like an afterthought, and I was tired of it. I’ve always loved how Samsung’s Settings app uses a split view: a list on the left,...
12 points19 comments6 d ago
- Built a Soulseek client for Android by putting a Rust networking engine behind a local Expo module (how the Rust ↔ Kotlin ↔ JS bridge works)
Each of the six points ties a part of the video to the code behind it: Building the .so (whole video): the crate builds as cdylib for the APK and rlib for tests on the host. A Gradle task runs...
11 points0 comments4 d ago
- This Week In React Native #304: RN 0.89 RC, Vega OS, Screens, Hermes, WebView, Unistyles, tgfx, Pager View
11 points3 comments5 d ago
- Brutal UI/UX feedback wanted: "Stakeholder", a playful app for tracking shareholder meetings and rating the buffet
Stakeholder (like the steak) tracks German shareholder meetings and lets you rate the free buffet. Playful tone on purpose. Looking for harsh, design-only feedback: What works, what looks amateur,...
10 points4 comments6 d ago