170 posts tagged with "React Native"

If you want to ship a mobile startup quickly, the idea is only half the battle. The real speed comes from a focused MVP, a clear retention loop, and a production-ready foundation. This guide maps high-demand app categories to React Native templates so you can launch faster and iterate with real users.

react-native-gesture-handler gives React Native apps native-driven tap, pan, pinch, rotation, and other touch interactions. The important part in 2026 is choosing the API that matches the version installed in your project: Gesture Handler 3 uses hooks such as useTapGesture, while many existing apps and Expo SDKs still use the Gesture Handler 2 Gesture.* API.

This guide shows the current setup, two complete Gesture Handler 3 examples, and the migration path from the previous API.

React Native architecture has moved from a bridge-centered mental model toward a typed, concurrent, multi-platform runtime. That shift affects how teams pick dependencies, write native modules, debug apps, design data flows, and decide when to use Expo, custom native code, or shared cross-platform packages.

Ship a polished, production-ready React Native dating app in hours — not months. This template pairs a swipe-first discovery experience with secure authentication, real-time Firebase chat, and built-in monetization so you can prototype, validate, and launch quickly.

Build a fully functional e-commerce app for iOS and Android in minutes using our premium React Native e-commerce template. This guide walks through setup, Firebase integration, Stripe payments, and publishing to app stores.

AI app builders can turn a product description into screens, navigation, and a React Native or Expo project quickly. That makes them useful for exploring an idea. It does not make every generated project production-ready.

This guide explains how to evaluate the generated result: what to inspect, which claims to verify, and where engineering work still begins after the first prompt.

Decide what to build, buy, or reuse in a mobile product so the team spends its scarce time on differentiated workflows instead of commodity infrastructure. This revised guide emphasizes supported APIs, production tradeoffs, and an upgrade-friendly path without tying the advice to a calendar year.

Galio is a UI toolkit and component framework for React Native that provides a consistent set of ready-made, themeable building blocks (buttons, cards, text, inputs, nav bars, etc.) so you can prototype and ship mobile UIs faster. The galio repository includes the core components and a lightweight theme system in src/theme (see colors.tsx, sizes.tsx, index.tsx) plus components under src/ such as Block, Button, Text, Input, Card, Avatar, NavBar and more.

Learn more on the official site: galio.io and browse the source and examples on GitHub: github.com/galio-org/galio.

Network bugs in React Native usually fall into a few categories: the request never leaves the device, the server rejects it, the response shape is different from what the app expects, or the UI keeps using stale data. The fastest way to debug them is to inspect the request, log safely, reproduce on the platform that fails, and verify the server-side trace.

Older Android phones expose every expensive choice in a React Native app: heavy startup work, oversized images, slow lists, chatty network calls, JS-thread animations, and debug-only assumptions. The goal is not to chase one magic setting. The goal is to measure on real hardware, reduce work on the critical path, and ship a release build that keeps memory, CPU, and frame time under control.

React Native upgrades are safest when you treat them as a controlled migration, not a package bump. The work spans JavaScript dependencies, native iOS and Android project files, Expo modules, build tooling, runtime versions, and QA. This guide gives you an evergreen upgrade path that works for bare React Native apps, Expo apps, and production templates.

Most production React Native apps talk to at least one REST API: auth, profiles, feeds, search, orders, payments, media, notifications, analytics, or admin workflows. The important decision is not whether you use Fetch or Axios. The important decision is whether every request goes through a typed, observable, cancellable, and secure API layer.