I usually write about technical topics, but I want to use this opportunity to share the journey of a project I’ve been working on for the last year with my spouse and business partner Andreea Apetrei Kalveram. The elevator pitch 🔼 🔽 In a nutshell, The Sustainable List is a curated list of sustainable fashion…

Three things that people often get wrong when developing apps for iOS and Android — One of the biggest troubles I often come across when building mobile apps in React Native isn’t necessarily technical: it’s that people design iOS apps for Android, or vice-versa. Many companies choose React Native over native development because of its shallow learning curve. …

Lately, I’ve been working on integrating a GDPR opt-out feature into an app. This feature allows users to flip a switch to decide whether they want any privacy-related data to be tracked by our app or any of its third-party dependencies. From a legal standpoint, that’s an interesting challenge, because…

Upgrading is one of those tedious tasks that you’ll inevitably face at some point when working on a React Native project. If you’ve ever gone through this process, you’ve probably realised that it still has a lot of potential for improvement. The most popular complaint about React Native, according to…

Recently I’ve helped a client migrate their e-commerce front-end from a native wrapper app to React Native. Since a big part of the team didn’t have any previous experience with React, it was natural that we’d run into a lot of inconsistencies in the beginning. …

This is the last post in a 4-part series about building the iOS and Android app for uncovercity using React Native. You can find the other ones here: Speeding up the build of a surprise dinner app in React Native using Expo Battle testing a ridesharing API and React Native’s…

This is the third post in a 4-part series about building the iOS and Android app for uncovercity using React Native. You can find the other ones here: Speeding up the build of a surprise dinner app in React Native using Expo Battle testing a ridesharing API and React Native’s…

This is the second post in a 4-part series about building the iOS and Android app for uncovercity using React Native. You can find the other ones here: Speeding up the build of a surprise dinner app in React Native using Expo Battle testing a ridesharing API and React Native’s…

This is the first post in a 4-part series about building the iOS and Android app for uncovercity using React Native. You can find the other ones here: Speeding up the build of a surprise dinner app in React Native using Expo Battle testing a ridesharing API and React Native’s…