Expanding Grid Item Animation

Nice implementation of a master-detail view, inspired upon the Surf Project Dribble Shot by Filip Slováček (pictured above). You can see this kind of animations – where elements are reused and moved from one viewstate to the other – in quite a few mobile apps nowadays (take the App Store App on iOS11 for example). …

NativeBase – Cross-Platform UI Components for React Native

NativeBase is UI component library for React Native, which comes with a great list of Components for easy use. The Components are constructed in pure React Native platform along with some JavaScript functionality with rich set of customisable properties. These components allow you to quickly build the perfect interface. NativeBase includes components such as anatomy …

XCode 9.0: Fixing a Slow/Unresponsive iOS Simulator

Whilst initially implementing react-native-maps into a project I noticed that the iOS Simulator didn’t quite like it. Whenever the Mapview was visible on the screen, the Simulator was maxing out on something. Turns out the OpenGLES.framework that comes with XCode 9.0 – and not react-native-maps itself – is the culprit. That version is buggy and …

react-native-maps – React Native Mapview component for iOS + Android

On a React Native project I’m currently working on, I’m implementing native (vector) mapviews. Gladly there’s react-native-maps by AirBnB to handle it all. import React, { Component } from ‘react’; import MapView from ‘react-native-maps’; class MapViewExample extends Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { region: { latitude: 37.78825, longitude: -122.4324, latitudeDelta: 0.0922, longitudeDelta: 0.0421, …