Covid-19 into our lives — a Software Engineer’s Perspective and Thoughts Hi guys, hope you are doing well with all this unprecedented situation we are living over the past months. In this post I want to discuss my thoughts and feelings that emerged through the coronavirus situation, the mandatory quarantine, and the change of our daily (and not…
Since my previous article, the landscape and tooling around React Native have changed, so I wanted to provide an updated post for React Native best practices in 2020. There are also quite a few more areas to cover, so this article is also intended to work as a continuation of the previous post. Use Expo-Kit only if you know exactly…
If you are new to the React Native world, there are some pitfalls that you probably want to avoid while in some other cases you will have to make choices upfront maybe without knowing how important they are. Below I have compiled a list of best practices from my personal experience, which I hope you…
Why lock application orientation mode? Many applications have their User Interface (UI) designed to contain a lot of elements. To have these applications change their orientation (i.e. from portrait to landscape), it would mean that users will have a bad UI experience and also a lot of scrolling to deal with. A typical example of…
Navigation is a chapter that has “troubled” RN developers for some time now. Actually, it still troubles us. When I started with RN, 1.5 years ago, Navigator component was the suggested cross platform approach from React Native documentation itself. The bad news came a few months later, when RN team deprecated it and removed it completely from…