The folks over at Callstack have published a series on React Native Optimization: In this and the following articles, we will show you how to optimize the performance and stability of your apps. Thanks to the practices described in the guide, you will improve the user experience and speed up the time-to-market of your apps. […]
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React Native 0.62 and Flipper
In this post Andréas Hanss gives us a tour on Flipper. Flipper is a platform for debugging iOS, Android and React Native apps. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. To add flipper support to your React Native project, I recommend the “Add Flipper Support” section from the Upgrade to React […]
React Native Bottom Sheet (Slide Up Panel)
A common pattern in Mobile Apps is to have a Bottom Sheet / Slide Up Panel. React Native Slack Bottom Sheet is a wrapper around Slack’s native PanModal component for iOS. import SlackBottomSheet from 'react-native-slack-bottom-sheet'; <SlackBottomSheet topOffset={100} unmountAnimation={false} initialAnimation={false} presentGlobally={false} backgroundOpacity={0} allowsDragToDismiss={false} allowsTapToDismiss={false} isHapticFeedbackEnabled={false} blocksBackgroundTouches={false} interactsWithOuterScrollView > <View style={StyleSheet.absoluteFillObject}> <ScrollView> <Lorem /> </ScrollView> </View> </SlackBottomSheet> […]
react-native-ble-plx – React Native Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) library
This is React Native Bluetooth Low Energy library using RxBluetoothKit and RxAndroidBle under the hood. scanAndConnect() { this.manager = new BleManager(); // Wait for PoweredOn state this.manager.startDeviceScan(null, null, (error, device) => { if (error) { return; } // Check if it is a device you are looking for based on advertisement data // or other […]
react-native-background-fetch – Periodic background tasks for React Native Apps
Background Fetch is a very simple plugin which will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes, providing a short period of background running-time. This plugin will execute your provided callbackFn whenever a background-fetch event occurs. import BackgroundFetch from "react-native-background-fetch"; export default class App extends Component { componentDidMount() { // Configure it. BackgroundFetch.configure({ […]
React Native CLI 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 – What’s New?
Mike Grabowski on the recent changes in React Native CLI: In this short article, I want to give you an overview of what’s new and what’s coming up in React Native CLI. Also, I’ll tell how do we plan our work going forward on it. The fact that React Native now shares the build cache […]
React Native + SwiftUI
Kureev Alexey on how to use SwiftUI Components in an React Native App. Today, we’ll write a proxy that allows developers to use SwiftUI in their React Native applications. The Native SwiftUI Button Component looks like this: struct SwiftUIButton : View { @ObservedObject var props = ButtonProps() var body: some View { VStack { Text("Count […]
React Native is the Future of Mobile at Shopify
Until now, the standard for all mobile development at Shopify was native mobile development. We built mobile tooling and foundations teams focused on iOS and Android helping accelerate our development efforts. While these teams and the resulting applications were all successful, there was a suspicion that we could be more effective as a team if […]
Securing React Native Applications
In this article, we will focus on the security side of the framework. We will be dividing the article into the following sections: Securing app to server connection Securing local data Advanced integrity checks Securing React Native Applications →
react-native-v8 – Opt-in V8 runtime for React Native Android
The aim of this project is to support V8 runtime for React Native. Designed as opt-in package, it should easy to integrate with existing React Native projects. After installing it, you’ll need to adjust your build.gradle files so that it includes the new runtime — a/android/app/build.gradle +++ b/android/app/build.gradle @@ -161,11 +161,18 @@ android { } […]