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:
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. …
TL;DR #1: Hate reading? Watch the video (please subscribe if you like the content)
TL;DR #2: Just want the code? Grab it here: https://github.com/lepunk/react-native-videos/tree/master/Snake
Snake is a classic video game made popular by the Nokia phones in the 90s. The gameplay is simple: you control the head of the…
This is the story of one of the most challenging trips I ever took…
So let’s start at the beginning! The company I’m working for has this amazing perk that allows employees, who’ve been with the company for over 5 years, to take an extra two weeks, paid sabbatical if…
Yesterday I made a (more or less) fully functional MineSweeper game in React Native.
MineSweeper is responsible for endless hours of productivity loss since the 1960s, and there is a reason for that: it’s extremely addictive and very easy to understand.
The rules of the game
- You start with a board of a fixed size…
Disclaimer: This post is not a rant. We are not delusional, PH is a business and as such it needs to cater for their community as well as their business logic. This post is merely an outline of our failed product launch.
