Experiment time! How long would it take you to build an app like this from scratch? Talks to an API to find recipes Shows a list of delicious pics Lets you click on a pic to see a recipe Well … first you’d have to get the app itself up and running, then you gotta […]
Jerry Seinfeld writes one joke per day. No matter what happens that day, he writes a joke. For motivation he uses what’s become known as the Seinfeld Calendar: You get a big calendar and for every day that you write a joke, you put a big bright red X on your calendar After a few […]
We’re taking the HackerNews App that filters negative comments from two weeks ago and making it actually useful. Adding a login form, enabling upvotes, and commenting. Now that the app is useful, it’s going to the App Store. 😇 We’re using MobX for state management, a reverse-engineered HackerNews write API, and Shoutem UI Toolkit for […]
Learn how to build a Hacker News app where people are nice. Using HN’s official Firebase API to load stories and comments, Google’s Natural Language API to hide negative comments, MobX for state management, Shoutem UI Toolkit for styling, and react-native-htmlview to render HTML.
Build a real-time visualization of Bitcoin transactions with React Native in 10 minutes Have you ever wanted to build a data visualization with livestreaming real-time data? You’re in luck! That’s what this tutorial is about 🙂 We’re building an app that shows the real-time value of Bitcoin, Etherum, and Litecoin as judged by the Coinbase […]
For this week’s React Native app build, I wanted to play with react-navigation. It’s the new official way to build navigation in react native apps. We’re building a Crowdsourced Travel App. You say where you’re going, the app suggests what to pack. Keep forgetting your toothbrush? Now you won’t. Don’t know what to pack for […]
Today we’re building a Player component to stream music from SoundCloud. After trying 3 or 4 different React Native sound libraries, I found one that works with remote file streaming: react-native-video
React Native Music App part 1 Nikolai asked “I’m curious how to make a basic audio player in React Native? A way to play from a remote location”, so here we are: Build a React Native Music App tutorial! Our app loads as a list of music genres. We find the “album” art on Flickr, […]
Today we’re building a camera app with live preview saturation and brightness filters. It’s like, Instagram but not. There’s no “Take Pic” button. You have to take a screenshot. But filters! You can turn it into an Instagram with these helpful WebGL shaders that @stoffern build. Oh yes, we’re using WebGL to manipulate camera output […]
That was the hardest thing in coding that I’ve ever done. Setting up Firebase Cloud Messaging with a React Native app in March/April 2017 is hell. I hope the ecosystem improves. After 7 days, it works! As far as I know, this is the only comprehensive how-to out there. Enjoy 👇 Before you ask: yes, […]
