#react-native

The Real Permission Flow for Background Location in React Native (Android + iOS)

If you’ve ever shipped a React Native app that needs to track a user’s location while the app is backgrounded — a delivery app, a…

Onboarding That Drops Users Into a Working App, Not an Empty Shell

A manual-entry budget app earns its keep over weeks, but it gets judged in the first sixty seconds. This is how I rigged those sixty…

📱 PhonePe Mobile Engineer Interview Experience (2026)

My experience interviewing with PhonePe across DSA, React-Native, Machine Coding, and Mobile System Design.

Five Packages Later, Everything Started Feeling Easier

Building Kivex Flutter and Kivex React Native taught me that every challenge you conquer prepares you for the next one.

React Native CI/CD: Build a Reliable Pipeline to App Store

Refresh Token Mechanism with Axios Interceptors in React Native

Handle token expiry and maintain secure, seamless user sessions

Vercel Reinvents React Native, Sub-Second OTA Updates, and an X Button Finally Doing Its Job

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #49.

Why Startups in HealthTech Choose React Native for Their First Product

Every HealthTech startup faces an early technology decision: build separate apps for iOS and Android or launch both from a shared codebase…

React Native 0.86: Zero Breaking Changes, Two Releases in a Row

React Native just shipped version 0.86, and it might be the most “boring” release in years — in the best possible way. No sweeping API…

How I vibe coded React Native Time tracker app using Claude code

Hi folks! Today I want to share a very interesting experiment. I’d never built a mobile app in my life. Yet, in just 3 hours, I went from…

Building Native Wallet Integration in React Native

A Complete Guide to Google Wallet & Apple Wallet Integration for Production Apps

Why Maestro Is Better for Expo Apps in 2026

Mobile testing has always been one of the most painful parts of app development.

Shipping to Both App Stores as a Solo Dev — What Apple and Google Do Not Tell You

Building the app took months. Getting it onto two stores taught me more about Apple and Google than any docs page ever did.

What’s Next? #01｜ Next.js Project structure

A well-organized project structure helps a Next.js application stay maintainable, scalable, and easy to understand.

Zoomable Calendar Grids, On-Device Gemini Nano, and a Gothic Theme for Your Company’s 13,000…

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #48.

AI-Native Expo Development: Building React Native Apps with Claude Code, MCP, Agents and Skills

Moving beyond AI code generation into AI-assisted mobile engineering

Why we replaced React Native views with a Skia canvas for our grid

A bit of context

I’m Building an App for People Who Deliberately Ride Out of Cell Coverage

Motorcycle tourers choose routes because there’s no signal. That constraint broke every standard mobile pattern I knew — and produced the…

Boring React Optimizations That Cut Our Vendor Bundle by 67%

The fastest wins in old React apps often come from boring places: imports, duplicate packages, and large code that loads too early.

Expo SDK 57: The Small Release That Could Change How Expo Upgrades Feel

Expo SDK 57 has officially been released, and at first glance, it looks like a small update.

Demystifying Hermes: How Meta Re-Engineered JavaScript for Mobile Constraints

Think about how many times you’ve opened an app on your phone to quickly check something, only to sit there staring at a frozen splash…

🎥 Building a Sticky Mini Player in React Native: Lessons from a 4-Second Delay

One of my favorite video experiences in modern applications is the sticky mini player.

React Native + Node.js JWT Authentication with Refresh Tokens (2026 Guide) — Djamware

Authentication is one of the most important building blocks of modern mobile applications. Whether you’re creating an e-commerce platform…

I’m a Web Developer Who Was Scared of Mobile. React Native in 2026 Changed That.

For years I told myself mobile “wasn’t my thing.” It turns out the wall I was avoiding had quietly been torn down — and most of it was made…

React Native’de Floating Action Button Neden Farklı Cihazlarda Kayıyor? Portal ile Kalıcı Çözüm

Mobil uygulamalarda ekranın sağ alt köşesinde konumlanan butonlar oldukça yaygın olarak kullanılır.

Vercel Eve, Tauri Desktop Shells, and Buying Canned Food for a Cat Named Coke

You’re reading The React Native Rewind #46.

FastImage Features You Don’t Use (But Should)

You installed @d11/react-native-fast-image, swapped out <Image> for <FastImage>, and called it a day. Performance improved, scrolling got…

8 JavaScript Features That Made My Web App Beat Native Apps in User Satisfaction Scores

Users preferred the web version — the specific capabilities that closed every gap users used to complain about.

Why Smart Businesses Hire Dedicated React & React Native Developers

The Hidden Cost of Building an In-House Tech Team

Implementing Infinite Scroll in React Native

Infinite scrolling is a popular mobile app pattern that allows users to continuously load content as they scroll down the screen. Instead…

Integrating Google AdMob Ads in React Native Using react-native-google-mobile-ads

Monetizing a mobile application is one of the most effective ways to generate revenue. Google AdMob provides various ad formats, including…

Expo Go Is Changing on the App Store: What It Means for How You Learn React Native

The free app every tutorial tells beginners to install is stuck on an older version — and the fix quietly changes the first thing you learn…

How We Built Our Own Over-the-Air Update System for React Native

CodePush is dead. The Play Store queue is slow. We had bugs to fix. So we built Ripple

Next.js Complete Guide

# 🚀 Next.js — Why It Exists, What It Gives You Beyond React, and Everything You Need to Know

Fixing Slow AI Text Streaming in React Native

If you are building a React Native AI chat app, you have probably noticed that text streaming is slow and buffers heavily.

Cutting Android Build Times 2.8x with One Flag in Expo SDK 56

A single config line took one Android CMake task from 17 minutes to 6 in Expo’s benchmark. The number is real — and so are the three…

飲料訂購系統 — 後台管理頁 使用 Next.js、React、TypeScript 製作。

這個專案是一個飲料訂購系統的後台管理介面，使用 Next.js、React、TypeScript 製作。

Modern Native Development in React Native with Expo Modules API

For years, one of the biggest pain points in the React Native ecosystem was native module development.

Devlog: Adding Bulk Task Assignment

Because One-by-One Is a Trap

React Native — Custom Event Kullanımı

Merhabalar,

Release React Native 0.86

React Native 0.86 is here, and it comes with a strong focus on platform polish and developer tooling. This release brings comprehensive…

Vibe Coding Built My App in 3 Days: Here’s Why I’m Still Hiring a Professional Developer

Okay so I need to talk about something that the tech internet is slightly obsessed with right now, because the conversation has gotten…

Your React Native Fetches Are Leaking Android Quietly Solved This

What structured concurrency on Android can teach you about the async you’ve been firing and forgetting

React Native + AI Agents: The Next Evolution of Mobile Apps

Introduction

Our Image Upload Was “Working” and Still Failing Users

This is a small story about an image upload flow that was technically working, but still creating trouble for some people using it in the…

MCP for React Native: How to Connect Your Mobile App to AI Agents

Everyone’s wiring AI agents into mobile apps. Almost no one is honest about which machine runs the MCP client — and getting it wrong ships…

Mastering React Navigation Hooks

React Navigation has been the standard navigation solution for React Native apps for years. As applications grow, passing navigation props…

React Navigation vs Expo Router: Which One Should You Actually Use?

Ok, before we go into the depths of these concepts, I want to tell you that we will take it easy. I don't want you to get overwhelmed by…

Keyframer: The Future of UI Animation Is Closer Than You Think

Creating great animations has never been easy.

I Built the Same App in React Native, Flutter, and Native. The Winner Shocked Me.

After 200+ hours of building, debugging, and comparing all three, I discovered trade-offs that most framework comparisons completely miss.