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SEEKING WORK - Remote Mobile Developer based in the Caribbean (reasonable rate :)) Skills: Native iOS / Android, React Native. I've worked on projects using RxJava, Firebase, MVP a…

You write Android apps the same way you'd write them in Java and the Android SDK but with the Ruby language. The quickstart gives you an idea of how to translate some of the Java t…

In an absolute sense, maybe but 10x more would be moving in the right direction! :)

I posted a follow-up to this story talking about further explorations based on the feedback I got from your comments. https://kelvinpompey.me/tempted-to-abandon-react-native-for-..…

The first module I tried was react-native-image-picker and yes it returns an object with base64 encoded data. What I do with this data is first, resize the image then display the r…

I did just that. I created a native Android project that selected an image from the image picker and displayed it in an image view. I tested it with a few images and it worked. Eve…

That's an interesting idea. The code to select and resize the images are native third-party plugins so in this case I am not sure anything more could be done. I thought maybe the p…

I've dabbled with NativeScript a bit. It does seem a bit closer to the underlying platform but from my experience of it, it felt incomplete. I first tried the Angular version befor…

That's a fair point about the opportunity to build some performance-tuning muscle but I imagine to do that would require solid knowledge of both React and Android. Where do I start…