I’m building a mobile game using Expo / React Native. By combining FlatList and RN’s new architecture with the Hermes JS engine enabled, I get 120 frames per second performance, even with long lists of components containing text, images and buttons.
Category Archives: Mobile
Fight Clock: Boxing/HIIT Timer App
I just launched Fight Clock, an app for round timing of boxing, MMA and Muay Thai – 3 of my hobbies, when lack of injuries permits. It’s built using Expo / React Native / TypeScript. So the same code base will work seamlessly on web, Android and iOS.
But the USP of Expo / React Native is actually the ability to push small fixes and updates ‘OTA’, without requiring a new mobile release. This way, fixes can be delivered to users transparently in minutes, not days.
Chat app in React (hooks)
Here’s a simple chat app I created as an example of using (hooks flavoured) React with Firebase, all in TypeScript. It’s a little like the YouTube superchat thing, whereby everyone can log in with single click Google authentication and all chat to each other.
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Tinnitus Therapy wins ‘App of the Day’
My popular Tinnitus Therapy was recently featured as an App Of The Day on the app review site, Download Astro. I did a little interview for them about me and the app. Go and take a look.