A look at react-native-nfc-manager — With iOS 13, Apple finally opened the SDK to write data on some of the most popular NFC chips. Thankfully one of the most popular (and to my knowledge, only) NFC React Native libraries, react-native-nfc-manager, also added (some) support to do this. Let’s see how it works in practice! TL;DR…

Break away from Helvetica, and give your users something more interesting to read — Up until React Native 0.60, I was using package.json and RNPM to add my custom fonts to my projects. Since 0.60, however, I was greeted with the following warning on every build: warn Your project is using deprecated "rnpm" config that will stop working from next release. Please use…

A walk through building this classic game with a new twist — Today I’m going to recreate another classic game in React Native: Whack-A-Mole. The mechanical version of this game was an arcade fan-favourite in the late ‘70s and early ’80s. Since then numerous clones on various devices have been made. TL;DR #1: Watch the video: TL;DR #2: Grab the source…

Making a fun, playable, and good looking clone of a hit game — In the previous piece, we created a proof of concept version of Flappy Bird using react-native-game-engine and Matter.js. While it was fun, it wasn’t even remotely the kind of game that any sane user would enjoy or even use for more than ten seconds. Today we are aiming to make…

Recreating the annoying viral hit game — Flappy Bird is one of those games that most people know about, even if they have never played it. It was originally released in May 2013 by a Vietnamese developer, Dong Nguyen, but didn’t become popular until early 2014, when it skyrocketed into the number one position of the iOS…