As mobile app users, we love to see some diversity in how elements are being rendered in the app. One way of presenting a list of items is through the use of horizontally rendered list of cards. Spotify is one of the application that successfully uses this pattern. Let’s go through a short tutorial to […]
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With react native we can build applications easily for both Android and iOS users using an almost “identical” codebase. While this is an advantage, there are design elements that we must take into considerations when designing for both OSes. Navigation element is one of the biggest items to consider in designing application for both OSes. […]
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Imagine that you could always entertain your customer for 24/7 on the web the same way an automated answering machine would. Chat bots is the answer to this; you can answer queries, show user some of your product and even extract some information from your site’s user. When facebook opens up the API for messenger, […]
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I’ve written how to create an infinite scroll using ListView before. However, redditor reminded me that there are new interfaces to deal with list view when it comes to react native. React native team have simplified wrangling with list component through the introduction of 2 new classes: FlatList SectionList These new list types extend from […]
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Thanks to Facebook wall, Twitter, and other apps, we are getting very comfortable with infinite scrolls. With react native, we can easily replicate this in a mobile application. What we are building In this tutorial, we will build a list view with react native that supports infinite scroll. We will use Reddit API as our […]
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With so many resources to learn react native, it is very difficult to single out the good courses apart from the average ones. To help learning react native in a structured manner, here’s a list of some of the best resources you can find to learn react native today. 1. Getting started in react native […]
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For mobile apps development in iOS, CocoaPods has become an accepted dependency manager. Some of highly used library have their packages available in CocoaPods. React native comes without CocoaPods built into their installation. Not to worry though, getting CocoaPods into your react native project is really straightforward! Let’s go through the process of adding Fabric for iOS using […]
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React native is a good choice to write cross platform mobile application. Testing and debugging react native applications locally is also quite straightforward. Once we deploy these applications, we definitely want to know how our users is using our application. For web applications, most of the time we are defaulting to google analytics. However, for react native […]
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Working with chat bots can sometimes be a real pain. Most of the chat bot platform requires you to deploy your code in the cloud (and it has to be in https to make matter more complicated!) in order to test out the functionality. I’ve tried this particular way of creating and testing chat bots before […]
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