170 posts tagged with "React Native"

Instagram-style filters are a product feature, not just an image effect. A good React Native implementation lets users pick or capture a photo, preview filters quickly, export the selected result, upload it safely, and recover when a filter library or device GPU behaves differently across platforms.

Older tutorials often recommend a single native filter package as the default. For production apps, choose the filter stack deliberately and test maintenance, export behavior, Android/iOS parity, and upload integration before committing to it.

React Native projects collect several kinds of local state while you work: Metro cache, Watchman watches, node_modules, CocoaPods, Gradle build output, and Xcode DerivedData. Cleaning all of them at once can fix some painful build issues, but it can also create new problems if you delete lockfiles or update native dependencies accidentally.

This guide shows a safer cleanup order. Start with the smallest cache reset that matches the symptom, then move down the checklist only if the problem remains.

Drawing directions in a React Native app usually starts with a simple map polyline. A straight polyline is enough for connecting two coordinates visually, but real turn-by-turn-looking routes need a routing service such as Google Routes API, Mapbox Directions, HERE Routing, or a backend you control.

At Instamobile, we’re building a ton of complex features to save time and energy for React Native developers across the world. One of these complex features is the chat functionality, which is a must have in almost all mobile apps nowadays. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add a React Native Chat into any mobile app with only a few lines of code. And yes, we are talking about a fully fledged chat function, that comes integrated with backend (database & storage) and that is real-time. And it can be integrated into any React Native app with no effort!

Location features can make a React Native app feel useful immediately: nearby listings, delivery tracking, taxi pickup, store locators, real estate search, fitness routes, and local recommendations all depend on coordinates. They also touch privacy, battery, app store review, and cloud costs.

We launched a free React Native Starter Kit, and I thought it’d be a good idea to document the entire process of designing a react native starter app, from inception to the final product. Hopefully, this can help people looking to create a mobile app and have no idea how to start and what the product design process looks like.

If you are comparing starter kits against full app templates, use The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates as the main decision guide. This article is focused on the product thinking behind a starter app.

Interested in learning React Native? Let’s build your first React Native app, a simple mobile app displaying a list of countries, fetched from a REST API with a network request. This React Native tutorial is aimed at introducing React Native, giving you the basis of what you need to know before building a real React Native application. After that, we proceed to helping you build your first real React Native app. By the end of this article you will build a React Native app that can run on both iOS and Android devices.

React Native is a framework for building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. There are lots of materials with which to learn React Native and in this article I will show the best 10 resources to learn React Native development. For each learning material I will talk about the entry behavior, time to complete, content and difficulty level.

GIPHY integration is useful in React Native chat, comments, stories, social feeds, and messaging apps. The implementation is straightforward, but production apps need more than a search URL: attribution, API key handling, debounced search, pagination, safe media rendering, and a clear fallback when the API is unavailable.

Redux is a popular React and React Native state management library, meant to be used in complex React and React Native apps where sharing state between multi-level components can get extremely difficult to manage. In this article we are going to learn how to use Redux with React Hooks by building a real React Native app.

WordPress exposes a REST API that React Native apps can use for blog readers, news apps, documentation hubs, content-heavy ecommerce apps, and publisher experiences. The API is useful out of the box for public posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media, and custom content exposed by plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields.

The production challenge is not fetching one post. It is handling pagination, HTML content, media URLs, caching, empty states, authentication boundaries, and safe write operations without leaking WordPress credentials into the mobile app.

Next time you start working on a new mobile app, consider using a fully-coded react native starter kit, to speed up your development. At Instamobile, we build react native templates, to help mobile developers and small business owners launch their apps faster. We’ve compiled a list of beautiful React Native templates, that allows entrepreneurs to focus on their product, rather than on reinventing the wheel, by rewriting the boilerplate code every app has (like user authentication & sign up, Facebook login, Firebase integration, etc.).

For the current framework for comparing free, premium, and production-ready options, read The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates. This page remains a product-oriented shortlist.