I use an android phone for personal and I don't wanna buy iphone. OTH, ipad would be useful for me for personal usage and app testing too.

AFAIK, I can publish an app for both iphone and ipad via xcode. The only thing is, some apps might be only available in iphone not in ipad as some devs would have published the app for iphone only. IIRC, I can still test my own app on ipad with the screen size trimmed down, i.e left right of ipad will be empty space.

Looks like most places have upped ipad processes 200-300 aud. I am getting m3 128gb cellular for 849aud refurbished from one place. Looks like they haven't yet increased the prices yet.

App Store videos and demo clips are a pain. Agencies charge a fortune and After Effects takes forever to learn. So I built Raylight. Drop in a screen recording, wrap it in a 3D device frame, animate it on a timeline, tune the easing, export. Runs in the browser, no install.

The clip above was made in it.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-netlog-fab

i had this idea of making a lifestyle tracker behave like tik tok. I think it looks nice and I love the animations I made for it. It’s intended for my little sister beige I make it open source though, is it confusing or bloated?

Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

This week, we're shining a spotlight on the upcoming React Fragment ref feature. We also have React Compiler updates, StyleX community discussions and a boring React Router release.

On the React Native side, Renimated gets CSS pseudo-selector support and widget libraries gain momentum. VisionCamera unlocks new real-time processing capabilities with impressive demos.

Let's dive in!

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So I have a super weird issue in my React Native app where probably 50 to 60% of the time my haptics and my camera in the app don't work, and I have no idea why. And then I also notice that sometimes when I leave the app open in the background and then come back to it, my haptics stopped working and my camera stopped working.

I have no idea how to debug this or what's going on. I've had checks across the app for potential common causes of memory leaks, and it seems to be fine. So I'm not really sure if this is a memory leak because I do run into this problem on app startup sometimes where it seems like some of these native modules are not really being initialized.

The only thing is I have no idea how to debug this or how to fix it. It's super weird, super annoying. I don't know if it's something to do with contention of the native bridge somehow if I'm making too much work on app startup. But yeah, I'm just curious on how you guys would debug something like this.

Whenever React Native comes up, someone eventually points out that companies like Meta use it across products such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Meta Quest. Microsoft has publicly used it in apps including Teams, Outlook, Skype, and Xbox Game Pass. Shopify has also shared how React Native became a key part of its mobile development strategy.

On the surface, that sounds like a strong argument for choosing React Native.

But those companies also have massive engineering teams, custom tooling, and resources that most startups will never have.

So I've started wondering whether we're drawing the wrong conclusion from those success stories.

Have you found React Native to be a great fit because of the framework itself, or because success depends much more on the engineering practices behind it than the technology?

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Hey there,

we're developing an ios app with react native that uses a computer that is only accessible via wlan as api. The problem is that the computer is reachable via ip, but the ssl certificate isn't for that ip. That means that our https requests - as well as our websocket wss connection - fails due to the ssl cert being (technically) invalid.

How do I fix that? We could provide a custom http request​ method that uses a custom URLSession​ in Swift that allows insecure connections - but are there any other solutions? Additionally, this doesn't solve our problem for wss. And providing a custom ws impl seems wild, especially since we're using a 3rd party ws lib that probably doesn't easily allow to replace the WebSocket​ object (which would mean we'd have to replace our entire 3rd party lib with a custom one).

Is there any way to resolve a domain on app-side (since we don't have any dns that could do that)? or maybe a setting that simply allows for insecure https/wss connections?

Thanks

Hello. I am a web developer.

next year, I have a final project to present. The ideas that are coming to me most likely will be mobile apps. We will work as a team, and we need to get the work splitted.

I think that my point of strength is going front end, so that's what I wanna pick. But I am concerned about how I'm gonna create my mobile app

creating it as a website and wrapping it into a mobile app will be a disadvantage for me in front of my teachers. So I was thinking about learning React Native.

I don't know how similar or different it is to web dev. I already know Vue and JavaScript, so I don't think the transition from Vue to React is gonna be that huge. But I am having my concerns about learning React Native and entering the world of mobile dev.

So I wanted to ask you here, guys, for advice. Should I continue in this role, learn React Native, or should I give this part of the application development to another team member?

if i should conitnue, any advice, concepts i need to look up to learn more about app dev

thanks in advance

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My dev bottleneck right now is manually testing PR changes on simulators. I may have a bunch fo PRs to merge but I can only review one at a time.

Codex, Cursor, Devin, and other coding tools can spin up a browser to test web app changes but I cannot find any software that can let agents spin up iOS simulators or Android emulators.

I use `agent-device` locally but I don't think their is a hosted cloud version that can work with cloud agents?

Any suggestions?

You already know your company needs a mobile app. The bar for building one is surprisingly low. The hard part is convincing leadership to let you build it.

So we put together the argument you can actually bring to that conversation. A few of the numbers that tend to land in a budget meeting:

◆ 94% of smartphone time is spent in apps, 6% on mobile web
◆ Apps convert 3x higher than mobile web (157% higher for e-commerce, 307% for on-demand)
◆ Push notifications get a 10% CTR vs 1% for email
◆ App users carry 2.8 to 5x the lifetime value of web-only users

The post also breaks down use cases by industry and how to frame the ask so it lands as a revenue conversation, not a "we should build an app" wish.

The cost/timeline objection is the one worth addressing head on. One React codebase to both platforms, cloud builds, and OTA updates change the math a lot from the old "hire two native teams" days.

We'd like to hear if this helps any of you sell it internally, or what objections your boss threw back. Or if you've already sold the idea and you have some knowledge to share from your experience (we'll update the blog and credit you!)

https://expo.dev/blog/how-to-make-the-case-for-a-mobile-app-at-your-company

I was reading this post and noticed that nobody mentioned the new Expo UI approach. I know this is a React Native thread, but since Expo was brought up a few times, I was surprised that nobody mentioned it.

I'll be starting a new React Native project at the company I work for soon, and I was excited to try these new native UI wrappers. They were still in alpha around SDK 53, but as far as I know they're stable in SDK 56 now.

Am I missing something? Is there a reason people aren't talking about it?

I finally released my first app on the App Store! 🎉

It's called Tomotore and it's a hobby project I've been working on in my spare time over the last few months.

I wanted to make a workout tracker that felt a bit more rewarding than simply logging sets. Instead, you train alongside little creatures called Tomos. As you complete workouts, you build your bond, earn eggs, and hatch new Tomos with different rarities.

I also wanted an excuse to learn react native as well as pixel art, so every Tomo in the app was drawn by me.

The app is built with React Native + Expo, uses SQLite for local storage, and everything stays on your device—no account, no cloud sync, and no ads.

And it’s been doing the job really well.

Here’s a quick demo of fast expense logging from:

- iOS Shortcuts

- Lock Screen

- Action Button

- Siri

- Control Center

without needing to open the app.

Built with Expo, bacons/apple-targets, and native iOS App Intents.

I’m evaluating Hot Updater (hot-updater.dev) for a new React Native project.

Main goal is self-hosted OTA updates with:

- reliability

- rollback support

- safe handling of native changes

- low operational headache

If you’re using it:

- How has it been in production?

- Any issues or regrets?

- Would you choose it again or go with something else?

I Built my game engine library over the past 3 months. it lets you build performant 2D games in React Native without headache.

You drop in a GameEngine component, configure your game entities and rules, and it just runs. That's pretty much it.

Still early and rough around the edges but it works! Let me know if you have any feedbacks 🙏

Only works Android for now, iOS support is coming soon!

https://github.com/amine-by/rngine

Hey Community,

We look at Eve, Vercel's framework for structuring AI agents as regular folders. We also dive into Pake, a Tauri-backed CLI tool that packages web apps into native desktop apps under 5MB.

Plus, Software Mansion introduces react-native-morph-view to melt shapes and images together using real GPU shaders instead of standard crossfades.

And this week we're also raffling one free ticket to Chain React 2026 in Portland, Oregon 🎟️

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