Hey everyone!

Ive been pouring all my free time after 9-5 into building a mobile app in React Native, i launched couple days ago and idk whats going on, but ive had people from 15+ countries download it, start trials and even some conversions.

I dont have a big social presence and i didnt even localize the app store screenshots or any of that.

Regardless, seeing real people using my product is really motivating as a first-time developer. It’s still small, but it feels amazing because ik this app has potential and it seems like others are seeing that too!

If you want, you can try it out for free -> InfoDrizzle

Any feedback is welcome, happy to answer questions!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been a developer on Google Play for the past 5 years, running a legit account with over 50 million downloads across multiple apps. I’ve always done my best to comply with all of Google Play’s policies — I read updates, follow the guidelines, and make corrections quickly if any issues are flagged.

But about a month ago, my account was suspended without any prior warning or notice. No policy strikes. No emails saying something needed to be fixed. Just a sudden termination. I submitted an appeal the case ID is: [7-7557000038944], but it was denied with a generic response. I’ve asked for more details, but haven’t received anything specific that could help me understand what happened — or fix it.

I’ve poured years of hard work into building high-quality apps, maintaining a good user experience, and investing in ads and user acquisition. I know Google has the right to enforce its policies, but the lack of transparency and communication is really discouraging. If something was wrong, I would have fixed it immediately — but I never even got the chance.

Has anyone else faced something like this?
Is there any real way to escalate the issue or get in touch with a human at Google?

Would appreciate any advice, support, or visibility.

Thanks in advance.

To whoever needs to hear this: It's digging you into a hole you will have to dig out of with bad habits and dead ends. I promise.

Edit: I can't name off all the problems expo has in one go. It's one of those things you see constantly in small places and just know it is the biggest issue in development

Let me know what you think guys

I started developing with Expo and React Native a few days ago and... Expo deprecates a lot of stuff, and all it does it promote their paid services on the docs. I have to install WSL to build locally on windows? and i need an EAS account to do stuff on my own?? tf?

When i see on Google people saying that an average e-commerce website cost between 5000$-10000$ then i go to freelance websites to find it actually 500$ with 100 application, i just keep laughing while crying... I got a mobile app project for business discovery with: Complex Appointment functionality Geocoding Authentification for customer and provider and admin 3 langages Subscription model system for business providers Admin full interface Search, filters, sorting etc Img uploads Notifications Phone verification with twilio Nearby businesses Staff management for providers Etc ... And the client gived me 2000$ for it with duration of 3 months and while giving me f* *ing feedbacks I accepted it because i don't have better choice specially in my country so yeah! F *k my life...

I have an idea for an app, and in this video I’m seeing some animations and UI elements I really want to recreate (or build my own version of). I’m brand new to programming, so I’ve been researching roadmaps to figure out the right path — but I don’t want to waste months going in the wrong direction.

My question is: With React Native, can I build animations like these? • The blue, glowy, pixelated radius at the bottom • Micro-animations like shimmer effects • The 3 flashing indicator lights • The overall smoothness and timing of the motion

I’m not trying to steal this person’s idea — I just like the animation style. But I also don’t want my version to look like a watered-down knockoff. I want to understand what’s possible so I can build something polished and original.

I really believe the only way we improve as front-end developers is by sharing ideas so those ideas can evolve, so that’s why I’m asking.

If anyone has: • Tips on how to approach this • A roadmap for beginners who want to build animation-heavy apps • Recommended libraries (Reanimated? M? Lottie? Something else?)

So there's this overpriced app called "Dale", a clone of Left which shows you how many days are left until a set date as dots.

It is selling for $12.99 on App Store (!!) and there are posts promoting it here and here

So I thought, how long would it take Claude Opus 4.6 to clone it?

30 minutes. The video is sped up 24x on Screen Studio.

I gave Opus 4.6 in Claude Code this prompt:

Clone Dale. Here's how the creator describes it:

And then inserted text from the original post about Dale on r/reactnative

Anyways, here's the source code: https://github.com/pythonlearner1025/Dale-Clone

I will be publishing this app to app store for free.

Here's Claude Opus 4.6's 6 bullet-point summary on how Dale was cloned:

I cloned Dale (a viral "days left" countdown app) from scratch in a single Claude Code session — building the full React Native app with 4 screens, a Teenybase backend, and two native iOS home screen widgets, all without ever opening Xcode.

- React Native 0.79 with Hermes engine for the app UI; dark-first theme with signature dot grid visualization (one dot per day)

- Teenybase (serverless SQLite) for the backend — schema-as-code with auto-generated REST API and JWT auth

- SwiftUI WidgetKit extension with two widgets (Year Progress + Event Countdown), added by manually editing project.pbxproj

- Native bridge (Swift/ObjC module) pushes event data from React Native to widgets via shared App Group UserDefaults

- Zero Xcode usage — all project configuration, build phases, entitlements, and code signing set up entirely through code

The 3 prompts I used were:

1. "Change this to an X that cancels the match queue when tapped"

2. "Change this to an X that cancels the queue when tapped. Do not create an API endpoint. Directly transact with firebase to delete the document and return the user's chips"

3. "get the wager amount from the queue doc and delete both the queue and refund the players chips in a transaction"

The first was too vague. The second was almost there. And the third applied on top of the 2nd got us to the finish line!

I’ve got a NestJS backend ready to scale to 1–2M users, but I’m a solo dev with no time for separate native builds. Need one stack to rule them all (mobile + web).

I’m considering between: 1. React Native + Next.js (monorepo) – Max code sharing, fits my React brain. But will it choke on maps, chat, and image-heavy feeds? 2. Flutter + Next.js – Smooth performance + AR potential, but I’d have to learn Dart. 3. PWA-first – Fastest to ship, but iOS feature limits (camera, push, offline) scare me.

Needs: • Heavy image galleries • Maps (1000+ listings) • Camera + future AR (tho may skip it) • Real-time chat

Given the above, what’s the most practical stack to launch fast without painting myself into a corner for future scaling and native features?

I would like to mention i have 0 experience with Typescript and just know like it has strong type checking that being said is it worth to learn Typescript and what is the major difference when working with Typescript?

It's a video and audio editing app called Vaux that I decided to create after I got tired of copying files to PC for simple edits.

It's features include:

• Reversing selected file

• Extracting audio from video

• Creating meme style text videos

• Editing audio metadata

• Removing noise fro audio

• Merging multiple videos/songs

• Speed modification up to +/- 2x

• Volume modification

• Converting to multiple formats

• Splitting files into two parts

• Trimming unwanted segments from files(Video only):

• Adding music to a video file

• Adding an image watermark to a video file

• Creating GIFs from video files

• Cropping out unwanted video parts

• Compressing video files up to 240p

• Muting

The next milestone that I'm currently working on is support for multiple languages.

Your feedback on it's current features will be greatly appreciated.

Apart from the iOS version, there is also an Android version

You may have seen this before here (I can't access my account on the browser, so had to make a new account 😭)

Thank you everyone who offered candid and useful feedback. I welcome more feedback that I can action and will help improve the product 😄

https://launchtoday.dev/

Curious about Expo and how it can level up your React Native development? A colleague of mine recently wrote an article about what it is, its benefits, and how to get started. He compares Expo CLI with React Native CLI, and describes how to build a React Native Expo app. If you're interested to read it, here's the link :)

Hey everyone! 👋

After months of evenings and weekends, I finally shipped my game Just Loot to the App Store.

The fun part? The entire game is built with React Native + Expo.

I originally considered using Unity, but decided to see how far I could push React Native instead.

The game includes:

• ⚔️ A real-time combat simulation
• 💎 Procedural loot generation
• 🎒 Inventory & equipment system
• 📈 Infinite progression
• ✨ Animations with Reanimated
• ☁️ Supabase backend
• 📱 Native features like Sign in with Apple, haptics and Game Center

It’s been a surprisingly great experience building a game with React Native. Fast iteration, a great developer experience, and sharing code across platforms has been a huge win.

I’d love to hear from anyone else who’s built (or is building) games with React Native. What worked well for you, and what challenges did you run into?

Basically the title. This was a decent sub until a couple weeks ago but now it's flooded by an obvious unison of good opinion about expo and comments on how you MUST use it in your projects, especially if you're a beginner.

Let me the first to say it: IT'S ALL BULLSHIT. YOU DON'T NEED EXPO, IT WILL PROBABLY GET IN YOUR WAY, PREVENT YOU FROM LEARNING LOTS OF IMPORTANT STEPS, INTRODUCE HARD TO FIND BUGS AND MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE IF YOU TRY TO REMOVE IT.

Expo wants to introduce vendor lock-in by tainting RN (and your learning journey), which is a quite minimalist platform, with a very complex framework that is tightly coupled with a bunch of single-vendor cloud services.

Don't fall for propaganda. If you want do use Expo, it's an option, but it's not a silver bullet or even the industry standard.

Edit: all the comments and private messages defending Expo while ignoring my main point (the obvious spam) just prove it.

Most React Native OTA systems (CodePush, Expo Updates, etc.) still ship a full JS bundle every time — even if only a few lines changed.

That leads to:

• Large downloads for tiny hotfixes

• Slower updates

• More crash risk

• Harder rollbacks when something goes wrong

There’s a different approach: patch (diff) updates, where devices only download what actually changed instead of the full bundle. This can reduce OTA sizes by 90–98% and makes hotfixes much safer.

Here’s a technical write-up that explains how it works and why most OTA systems don’t support it:
https://stalliontech.io/react-native-patch-updates

Curious if anyone here has tried patch-based OTA or hit limits with CodePush / Expo Updates.