React Native has two ways for you to determine a user’s appearance preferences: The Appearance API which lets you get their current color scheme The useColorScheme hook which provides an up-to-date color scheme (it will automatically update as the user’s preferences change) This post was originally posted on React Native…

So you’ve got a React Native app, you’re using TypeScript, and you’re being killing by long package imports. Let’s fix that. This post was originally published on reactnativeschool.com. Take the project structure below — if I want to import CircleButton in components from my StopWatch.tsx …

This post was originally published on React Native School. Wordle has become an increasingly popular game and it’s one that we can build with React Native… in a single file! Here’s a demo of what we’ll be building today. Let’s jump in, shall we? We’ll use Expo and TypeScript throughout…

This is a quick walk through of a simple starter template for Expo projects. This post was originally published on React Native School. Be sure to visit for more React Native tips, tricks and tutorials! It works on iOS, Android, and the web. It includes: Navigation (with React Navigation v5) …

Things can get… funky in React Native. Here’s how to start fresh and reset a React Native app cache. There are a lot of things in play in a React Native app including: NPM/Yarn Cocoapods Watchman Metro bundler React Native iOS Build Android Build When things start to get weird/unexpected…

Fetching data from a remote source is a must in just about every app you’re going to build. Unfortunately, fetching data is rarely as simple as just fetching the data and rendering it. A few things to consider: What do we do when we’re waiting for the data to load? …

Reanimated 2 is a hyper powerful library that all the cool kids use but has always been a bit of a blackbox to me… I saw the power of it but was overwhelmed by the API. This post was originally published on React Native School. If you’re interested in hundreds…