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Building a Native QR/Barcode Scanner for React Native — New Architecture Ready
Most QR scanner libraries for React Native share the same problems — they're unmaintained, they don't support the New Architecture, or they pull in a …
"Reinstalling Won't Fix It": A Cross-App Shared-Auth Deadlock After Switching Phones
After migrating to a new Android phone, a few specific apps stopped launching. Amazon Shopping and Kindle would freeze on a blank white or black scree…
I Built 4 Real Mobile Apps With No Coding Background — Here's the Exact Workflow
I quit learning to code three times. Not because I wasn't motivated. I had app ideas I genuinely wanted to build. I bought courses, watched tutorials,…
Most Flutter Beginners Use TextField Wrong - Here's the Right Way
If you're building Flutter apps, you'll spend a lot of time working with user input. Whether it's a login form, signup page, search bar, or profile sc…
Building Renal Traveller: Making Dialysis Travel Safer and Simpler
How I Built Renal Traveller: Helping Dialysis Patients Travel Safely Travel is something most people can plan with ease. But for dialysis patients, it…
Control SwiftUI and Compose State Synchronously with Worklets in Expo UI
React Native developers have long dealt with the friction of bridging JavaScript with native UI threads. Every time you need to update native state, y…
I kept forgetting what subscriptions I was paying for, so I built something about it
I was looking at my bank statement one day and realised I was paying for 4 things I completely forgot about. Combined it was around 40 euros a month j…
Our first app is finally live on the Play Store after 4 months of hard work
Hey everyone 👋 After 4 months of development, testing, redesigns, debugging, deployment issues, and lots of learning — we finally launched our first a…
State Management in Production Flutter Apps: What Actually Held Up at Scale
State management rarely feels urgent on week one of a Flutter project. Screens come together fast. setState works. Provider or Riverpod gets wired up …
I Benchmarked React Native's Bridge Bottleneck — Here's What Actually Fixed 82% of Frame Drops
I Benchmarked React Native's Bridge Bottleneck — Here's What Actually Fixed 82% of Frame Drops We shipped 14 React Native apps in 18 months. Nine ship…
Using Python to Do the Wonders: How Flet Changes the Game for Developers
Introduction Every Python developer eventually hits the same frustrating roadblock: GUI design.For decades, we have been trapped using outdated librar…
The Next Big “Cult App” Probably Isn’t Another Social Media Platform
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about apps like Cal AI, Strava, Duolingo, Letterboxd, GitHub, etc. Not because of their features. But because of somet…
Frontend Engineering Beyond Pixels: The Architecture of Digital Accessibility
From a high-level perspective, frontend engineering functions as the translation layer between raw, machine-readable data and human interaction throug…
I Scanned 10 Popular F-Droid Apps With My Security Scanner — Open Source Secure
"It's open source, so it's secure." I hear this all the time. The idea is simple: if the code is public, someone must have reviewed it. Vulnerabilitie…
I built an AI app store screenshot generator because Figma made me cry — looking for brutal feedback
I'm Rishab. Every time I shipped an iOS app, I'd lose 2 days fighting Figma trying to make App Store screenshots that didn't look amateur. I'm a dev, …
The PKCE "Gotcha" in Expo’s exchangeCodeAsync
Setting up authentication in React Native usually leads you straight to expo-auth-session . It’s the standard for a reason—it handles the heavy liftin…
Skills, Java 17, And Theme Accents
Last week was about Metal and the Skin Designer. This week the headline items are about what a brand new project looks like when you generate it: the …
Designing a Scalable Cross-Platform Appium Framework
Designing the cross-platform architecture you can maintain Applying the Page Object Model without creating accidental complexity Making parallel execu…
Strengthening Ride Matching, Notifications, and Schedule Management
For our last week, focused on improving session persistence and preparing GusLift for broader platform support. This week, we continued improving the …
The Cost of Cross-Platform Development: Native Module Integration
Native Module Integration: Why Is It So Hard? Cross-platform development has gained massive popularity in recent years, especially thanks to framework…
Expo SDK 56
Originally published on expo.dev/changelog By Alan Hughes, Brent Vatne Today we're announcing the release of Expo SDK 56. SDK 56 includes React Native…
Why Reading Food Labels Shouldn't Feel Like Decoding a Chemistry Exam
Millions of people with dietary restrictions struggle with food labels every day. Here's the real problem — and how we built SafeScan to fix it. The H…
Private AI on a Normal Android Phone: Building Krexel with Gemma 4 E2B
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Every AI assistant you use today sends your data to a server. Your mes…
Dynamsoft Barcode SDK: Build Mobile Barcode Scanners with React Native, Flutter, and .NET MAUI
Choosing the right cross-platform framework for a mobile barcode scanning app means weighing API ergonomics against rendering performance and develope…
How Instagram, WhatsApp, Uber & Netflix Would Be Built Today Using Expo Router
Modern large-scale mobile apps demand maintainable architecture, scalable navigation, robust state management, and production-grade performance. Expo …
Struggling with Icloud Data Sync Issues? Let iCloud_Storage_Sync Handle It!
In the ever-evolving world of mobile app development, providing a seamless user experience across multiple devices is no longer a luxury — it’s a nece…
Apple Product Page Optimization (PPO) Guide for 2026
Apple Product Page Optimization (PPO) Guide for 2026 Apple Product Page Optimization is the single most underused growth lever on the App Store in 202…
Stripe Payment and Processing
Since GusLift is a ride-sharing platform, payments are an important part of the user experience. Riders need a simple and secure way to complete payme…