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The tirade against Apple in the middle article is pretty silly. Android OS has a terrible bug that means you can’t listen to your preferred music on your device. iOS does not have …

Seems like both AirBnB and Udacity made the mistake of not investing enough in the tech. If you keep building out full native features while transitioning a brownfield app to RN, y…

It doesn’t compile it to JVM, it runs a JS engine, and then passes some calls into the native side over an asynchronous bridge, and the native code then builds native views at runt…

I try to use ObjC PPC macros for things that are constant for the run of the program, and can be reasoned about globally. For example, some good ones I use are isLandscape or isIPa…

This is my thought exactly. I've written a few open source Swift components to learn the language, but it's just not ready to work on the scale that mobile software is reaching. Mo…

Swift is great for a small app, with a handful of developers. For a platform, which interops with multiple languages, being worked on by a large team of engineers, switching to Swi…

Is anyone besides No Startch selling this? I refuse to order from them anymore. :/

Mike, this line is completely and 100% inaccurate: "Private APIs do nothing that a third-party developer couldn't do in their own code, if they knew how to write it." There are a m…

Well, let's be clear here. I use React Native, and it would take me about 30m to write a bridged React Native method that could execute ObjC code dynamically, including accessing a…

You definitely will want to write images to file, then pass the file path over the bridge. That's an easy solution. I've been using React Native cross platform for over a year, and…

I use React Native and he's mostly right. Coming from the perspective of a native platform, this ecosystem is bat shit insane. It's harder, full of pitfalls, rife with complication…

My girlfriend worked on it in a way, and while I thought it was kind of a silly idea we got one for the house. I've grown to love it as the best jukebox I've ever owned. The speake…

Awhile back I had a Chrome extension that would show a fork of a source repo if it had more recent commits. This was super helpful for finding interesting bits of code. I can't fin…

I've been working on the Skillz SDK for awhile. If you're a game developer looking for a different way to add social interaction, competition, leaderboards, etc. you may want to ch…

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As I understand it, there are limitations, it will not be 100% accurate ie: a user could be using a proxy, or VPN, etc. Still, if Comcast is going to throttle specific websites, or…

If you haven't heard yet, Uber has recently raised it's fees on UberX drivers from 5% to 15%. At first, I was completely behind them, but they're turning into a pretty cut throat c…