AnimojiStudio – Make Animoji Videos with Unlimited Duration

Record Animoji videos with unlimited duration with this standalone app. This app uses the private AvatarKit framework, the same one that’s used by Apple’s iMessage app. It leverages ReplayKit’s screen recording capabilities to allow for longer recordings than the standard app. As this app uses a private framework, it cannot be found in / published …

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react-native-maps-directions – Directions/Routing component for react-native-maps

One of the things I found missing in the aforementioned react-native-maps was the ability to route between to coordinates. Combining the feedback from the related issues on GitHub (#52, #778, and #929) I’ve created a standalone component that does exactly that. The MapViewDirections component can route between an origin and destination coordinate. As routing is …

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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). …

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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 …

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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 …

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