Material design, navigation, persisting state — After setting up the environment in Part 1 and creating a very simple first application in Part 2, I was ready for something slightly more ambitious. For my second project with React Native, I wanted to make something that forced me to explore more APIs and libraries. …

An Android Calculator clone and what went wrong with it — In the previous part we’ve seen how I managed to setup the development environment, connecting to a real device and to an emulator, making sure reloading changes worked consistently; all of this with only a few dozen google searches. Next I was to actually develop something. Since I had no…

I’ve been using React for a a couple of years, but I was never really interested in React Native. — I’ve been using React for a a couple of years, but I was never really interested in React Native. Part of the reason is the aversion I had towards developing mobile applications in general, before React Native was even a thing; I found it tedious, having to debug your app…