Expo

🐜 The team at GeekyAnts hosted the first ever GeekConf in Berlin this past summer. To help connect attendees and enhance the experience of the conference they built a conference application with Expo and gluestack-ui. This is a blog about the architecture and the technical decisions they made: https://lnkd.in/gSAaCERe

Join our Launch Week AMA livestream to hear about everything we've released as part of SDK 52 and beyond. This is a complex, ambitious, powerful, and vast release so we have a lot of ground to cover and we expect a lot of questions from the audience. Please take a look at the SDK 52 beta, make sure it works with your apps, and bring your questions to the stream: https://lnkd.in/gQJi7qC8 Our hosts will be Brent Vatne, Jon Samp, and Keith Kurak.

⚡️ Tip: Expo can scan Barcodes! You don't need any scanner library anymore. With the latest expo-camera version, you can actually scan all kinds of QR and barcodes! You can directly call the launchScanner(), listen to results with onModernBarcodeScanned() and later hide the view using dismissScanner() What other Expo hidden gems have I missed??

Building up our community on 🦋. Missing so many people. If you or your business aren't over on Bluesky Social now is the time. It just went from the #81 social networking app to #2. https://lnkd.in/gvvcQeJn

If you have an existing website you’re looking to migrate to React Native then this DOM component livestream is for you. Expo offers a novel approach to work with modern web code directly in a native app via the 'use dom' directive. This enables incremental migration for an entire website to a universal app by moving on a per-component basis. While the Expo native runtime generally does not support elements like <div> or <img>, there may be instances where you need to quickly incorporate web components. In such cases, DOM components provide a useful solution. Here is the docs link if you want to get familiar with DOM components before the stream: https://lnkd.in/gHBNVPFp p.s. Don't be surprised if the live demo runs into react server components as well as the new expo-router/ui....Evan Bacon is not scared to wander.

🆕 Just published this new tutorial video from Alberto Moedano about how to write end-to-end tests with Maestro for your Expo apps. Here are the steps he covers: 1️⃣ Creating New Expo App 2️⃣ Configuring EAS Build 3️⃣ Disabling New Android Infrastructure 4️⃣ Writing Our First Maestro Flow 5️⃣ Installing Maestro CLI 6️⃣ Running Our First Maestro Flow 7️⃣ Creating a Complex Maestro Flow 8️⃣ Custom EAS Build Flow for Maestro Test 9️⃣ Triggering EAS Build Maestro Flow https://lnkd.in/gkBYcmEM

💅 If you want your app to "feel" more native check out the tips from this blog post written by a dev from the Bluesky Social team. He points out that React Native is often blamed when an app doesn't "feel" native. But that the blame is misplaced. There are little steps that need to be taken to make an app feel native. He lists some great ones in here: https://lnkd.in/g78DDj7f

"What if we could make server driven UI available to everyone? And what if it was the most powerful version of server driven UI that anyone has ever imagined?" That's the goal of 𝝠 Expo Router. 🥓 Watch Evan Bacon articulate his vision for bringing React Server Components to all platforms through Expo Router ↓ https://lnkd.in/gSvcyKse

🔄 There has been a lot of discussion lately about "migrating" from bare React Native to Expo. Just to be clear, the decision is usually more about "adding Expo tools and services" than it is about a true migration. You can stay on your bare React Native app and just add EAS Update, or adopt Continuous Native Generation, or install one Expo module. No migration headache/anxiety is required. Our advice when you're considering adding Expo tools is to be clear about: • What you want • Why you want it • What order you want to add the tools/services in https://lnkd.in/gciEhrpR

🆕 We just updated our guide about using Expo with existing React Native apps. A lot of the same questions kept coming up so we turned them into a "common questions" section. And we added some details about how to incrementally adopt Expo. https://lnkd.in/gciEhrpR