How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

This is why we need mobile devices that run a full operating system and full browser. Missing features and incompatibility make mobile useless in many real-world cases.

Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by enoex1 » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:09 PM UTC

huangc10 wrote: post #3

You mentioned you previously shipped iOS apps. How was the Android integration with React Native? Is it easy for someone unfamiliar with Android dev environment to push to Play Store?

Yes, quite easy! I have very little android dev experience. Android integration was excellent, I had zero issues. It was easy to ship to the play store (faster and less painful than iOS. And if you need to modify something, you don't need to wait days to get it re-approved).

If you're playing "within the bounds" of what React Native provides, it's wonderful. If you're doing some fairly custom things you may need to drop down and write Native Modules ( https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-... ), but the ecosystem is growing so fast that there are so many third party libraries that cover many of the custom things you'd want to do ( https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native )

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by anotheryou » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:16 PM UTC

What did you earn and how much mobile development did you previously do?

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by Something1234 » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:20 PM UTC

rocky1138 wrote: post #4

This is why we need mobile devices that run a full operating system and full browser. Missing features and incompatibility make mobile useless in many real-world cases. Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

You can if you fiddle with default apps to open a given link. It seems like those can get deleted on certain updates or at least that's happened to me before.

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by esturk » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:21 PM UTC

Prior iOS development certainly helps a lot. From my experience, a lot of time were spent debugging on Xcode to build the app itself.

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by huangc10 » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

enoex1 wrote: post #5

huangc10 wrote: post #3

You mentioned you previously shipped iOS apps. How was the Android integration with React Native? Is it easy for someone unfamiliar with Android dev environment to push to Play Store?

Yes, quite easy! I have very little android dev experience. Android integration was excellent, I had zero issues. It was easy to ship to the play store (faster and less painful than iOS. And if you need to modify something, you don't need to wait days to get it re-approved). If you're playing "within the bounds" of what React Native provides, it's wonderful. If you're doing some fairly custom things you may need to d…

thanks! this is really good news. I'm sort of in the same shoes as you. I work as an iOS developer and I wrote React for fun on the side.

Knowing how easy to is to ship to Android Studio is an added benefit.

Re: How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

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Post by nix0n » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 8:32 PM UTC

rocky1138 wrote: post #4

This is why we need mobile devices that run a full operating system and full browser. Missing features and incompatibility make mobile useless in many real-world cases. Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

I can watch YouTube in Firefox on Android, but I get a lot of dropped frames.