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Uncategorized Brett Adams Uncategorized Brett Adams

Totalitarian State Surveillance with the React Native Debugger

In an earlier post, we mentioned the React Native Debugger. Here we’ll take a glance at one of its easy to miss features, the Dispatcher, which falls right out of RN’s use of Redux.

Redux is “a predictable state container for JavaScript apps”, which is a bit of an undersell. Porridge for breakfast every Tuesday, and filing your taxes in October, is predictable — but Redux is predictably awesome.

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Uncategorized Jonathan Tennant Uncategorized Jonathan Tennant

When to question the UX

How, as a mobile app developer, to recognise when the cost of implementing a feature or design pattern doesn’t seem to be justified. It is the role of the developer to recognise this situation as early as possible and provide feedback to an iterative design process.

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Uncategorized Simon Bradley Uncategorized Simon Bradley

Punching holes in Android views

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can “punch through” a part of an Android app view in order to expose what’s behind it. While this might not be a very common UI paradigm, I’ve personally used it in the development of a production app — and it looked pretty neat!

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Uncategorized Noel Waghorn Uncategorized Noel Waghorn

Sum Types in Swift and Kotlin

An article exploring the differences in a sum type, a data structure used to hold a value that could take on several different but fixed, types between Kotlin and Swift. Another handy tip from one of our mobile app developers.

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Uncategorized Brett Adams Uncategorized Brett Adams

Mind the Gap

When it comes to mobile app development, while there are many cross-platform technologies vying for adoption, there remains one clear standout: Facebook’s own React Native.

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Uncategorized Dan Venkitachalam Uncategorized Dan Venkitachalam

How We Built American Honey PlayPacks

How we rapidly developed a mobile app to iOS and Android while keeping feature parity in a complex app for Australia's American Honey product. Code sharing with native code enabled us to target both platforms without compromising performance along the way.

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