This week, Jon ramps up his brewing plans with a logo contest, Spencer's girlfriend comes through and lands an XBox and hopefully is overcoming his motion sickness.In the React arena we discuss state management and if you've never used anything more than component state we got you covered.  You'll learn when to up your state game and possibly which type of state management solution will work for you and your app.If you've gotten into Redux or MobX, this is still interesting because we discuss...

In this episode, Jon deal with rats and realizes he can do impressions.  Spencer gets motion sick over video games but still wants (yet can't find) an xBox.Our main topic this week covers how to be lazy when building mobile apps by carefully constructing reusable components saving you time and hopefully frustration.Building a mobile app can be challenging, but you can make it easier on yourself by using some tools and patterns to build reusable components.  meaning you can use the same...

This week Jon is losing his mind and obsessing over his brewery and where it will be, Spencer can't cool and still can't find an Xbox, but does seem to come up with some cheeky titles for his new courses.When we get down to React Native we cover the important details about the recently released v0.64, what you need to do to prepare and what features are worth knowing about.0:00 - Intro0:40 - Spencer can't cook5:05 - Jon's brewery news8:17 - Spencer's weekly update13:31 - Mobile news (Amazon's...

This week Spencer really wants an XBox and keeps getting denied, if anyone has a hookup - let him know.  Jon gets sucked into the mechanical keyboard community.Then we focus in React Native and talk about how it all works with transpiling and polyfills,. The best part is that you don't need to understand all of this to use it and make great Apps. 03:20 - Jon fell down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole08:10 - Apple Cutting Fees to 15% (if making less than $1mil/year)10:10 - Foxconn and flip...

We have a new friends of the show - Peter Piekarczyk joins us to talk about his company Draftbit and how it can help accelerate your mobile app development using their interface.  Build multiple screens, complex UIs with their drag-n-drop interface, tweak properties to get it just right and view the generated code, or export your app so you're not jailed into their system!  Oh did I mention you can scan a QR code at any point and view it immediately on your device?  Pretty amazing.We also...

** Releasing this early this week **** Because we talk about the "One More Thing" event on November 10th**Did you know that Spencer wants to be a gamer now? He thinks hiring a VA is going to give him that time haha.  Jon is looking to fill in any free time he had but opening a brewery in his town and plans are flying all over the place. We would be remiss if we didn't mention quickly the burning trash heap that is our Election process.BUT you're here for mobile development, so ...Do your...

This week Jon sells his car and and Smoky The Bear (aka Spencer) talks about how ONLY YOU can prevent Chimney Fires.When they settle down for the show topic, the guys review the cool packages, posts and projects they've come across recently.  There's some pretty neat things covered in this episode and really isn't even the tip of the iceberg.If you have one to add - let us know and we'll mention it and YOU on the show. 0:17 - Welcome0:44 - Jon's catchup / car and demo3:30 - Spencer's catchup...

It's a big week for us, we discover that Spencer wants to hang up his laptop for a lathe and be a wood worker and why Jon is living MTV's Big Brother - sharing a living space with strangers.Microsoft is rebuilding their apps with React Native, there's been several important albeit un-exciting updates to React and Node and we talk about NPM trying to go to war with Yarn.For this week's topic we dive into what GraphQL is (and is not), why it's pretty cool and we cover both client and server...

Whelp, if you record often enough, you'll have a disaster.  Unfortunately Jon's mic was all static and very noisy for the first part of the show, so this episode doesn't have our typical catchup and mobile news sections. This is VERY unfortunate because Jon actually had a lot of extra time this past week to do some research and first hand dinking around with his app and talks about the different things he did.We jump straight into securing your app, from how to securely store data to jail...

Jon's back!  In this episode we catch up a bit since it's been a couple weeks since we've spoken, we celebrate Spencer's launch of Spectrum 3, hit some Epic news and dive into the best ways we learn with tips along the way.0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Jon's moving saga and office space5:11 - Spencer's update, Spectrum launch and camping naked7:55 - NEWS:  React Native Radio8:31 - Digital Ocean App Platform11:13 - EPIC News / Court Date11:44 - The Best Way To Learn [#clickBait]13:25 - Doc diving19:54 -...

In this episode, Jon ditches Spencer so he can move all his things and Spencer catches you up with his latest project and talks about dealing with Bugs that you didn't write yourself.0:20 - Where’s Jon?!1:12 - Spencer Update: The perpetual “launching rebuild soon”1:38 - Free React Native Fundamentals Workshop available3:20 - How to dealing with bugs when you can’t upgrade the package/an update isn’t available yet with patch-package7:20 - Dealing with large bugs/changes/feature additions -...

Jon and Spencer discuss the sessions from React Native EU that they enjoyed.  ACTUAL MOBILE NEWS .... and React Native News! 0:00 - Intro3:52 - iOS 146:10 - Android 117:52 - New iPad & Trying to Figure out how Stylus’ work10:13- Expo SDK 3911:16 - Main Topic - React Native EU11:50 - Day 1: Modernizing React Native’s JavaScript14:30 - Day 1: Visual Regression Test in React Native17:24 - Day 1: Testing Library Meets React Native20:58 - Day 1: Performance Does Matter25:35 - Day 2: Xcode...

This week Spencer and Jon talk about how to implement authentication workflows into you app.  Using this overall methodology, you can shove whatever auth you want into your app.  Continue with Epic news and a cool new phone that may be Jon's breaking point to change to Android  0:00 - Intro1:39 - Soundbooth news6:24 - Mobile News6:34 - Samsung Transparent Display9:34 - Epic News11:54 - Upcoming Apple Event15:44 - JWTs vs Cookies17:39 - Navigation Setup19:54 - Storing Auth State24:24 - Where...

Spencer and Jon help you boost the performance in your Flatlist components, because if implemented badly, it can really take a toll on your app, rendering blanks, and causing laggy behavior.They dig into various performance boosting items you can take a look at in your own app.  Walk away with faster loading lists, control scrolling and the memory associated with your items. 0:00 - Introduction7:53 - Mobile News8:09 - ZTE - first ever behind the screen camera9:50 - Open Bot - an Android...

This week Jon drives down that Road To Hell he paved with good intentions, and faces the fact that hope sucks and he'll never have time to do the things he wants to.On the brighter side of the podcast, Spencer dives into various ways to make things move in your app, from screen transitions, interfacing with gestures to moving pictures around on the screen.  This primer of the various popular animation libraries will help you get started, or at least familiarize yourself with the differences...

This week we're joined by Jamon Holmgren to talk about React Native Community, the Lean Core initiative, Ignite, Reactotron and more. 0:00 Intro0:53 - Pronunciation apologies2:22 - Jamon's week of small, annoying, don't have a good answer for it issues7:22 - Spencer's week9:09 - Mobile News / Epic Battle17:26 - Pentagon's UFO Taskforce19:49 - Getting to know Jamon24:00 - Why Infinite Red chose React Native33:06 - Podcasts33:43 - Managing with 3 partners41:55 - WebView47:13 - What is the React...

These days it's super easy to build an app with robust back-end APIs.  No one has time (or let's be real, desire) to do dev-ops, so we talk about FireBase and it's myriad of offerings from simple key/value store through various extensions like image resizing.We have some weird phone news as Microsoft is back in the phone game again, Air BnB tries to go public even with a big COVID hit to their business (and Apple breathing down their neck) and we get our first iTunes ratings and review!...

What an episode, Spencer, the testing king leads us on a detailed journey through Kent C. Dodds' Testing Trophy.  From static "tests" through end-to-end, we cover it.  Sprinkled in there with some stories of Jon's denial he's A.D.D, and Spencer's hot time when he couldn't sleep. 0:00 - Intro2:12 - Corrections2:45 - Listener Mike writes in4:07 - Main Topic Testing4:42 - Mobile News - React Testing Library changes7:15 - Our week - Jon doesn't have ADD11:42 - Our Week - Spencer's hot time in the...

Offline Storage and DatabasesIn this sleepy little episode Jon pines to be back in his 20's when he pulls an all-nighter and gets so much done.  We cover Storing JSON objects in AsyncStorage, different methods of hydration, why it's important to recognize the size of an open source community when choosing a package and/or software solution, and wrap it up with a plea to tweet us, dammit!0:00 - Intro0:17 - Welcome and why Jon's tired8:56 - Main topic - Offline Storage9:44 - AsyncStorage and...

Spencer and Jon welcome Gant Laborde, CIO of Infinite Red, AI Enthusiast, Tech genius and all around great guy to talk about a plethora of items.  Our main topic is UI Kitten, a way to get a new app up and running without having to worry about design. 0:00 - Introductions4:14 - Typescript or Not Typescript8:13 - The argument for Typescript11:21 - All about Gant13:09 - Hot dog Not Hot dog15:30 - AI-FYI Newsletter16:12 - Free AI Course16:21 - Deep Fake Drawing and MIT's Nixon / Moon Disaster...

Disaster strikes, and hilarity ensues 1/2 way through the recording, but because I'm an awesome editor, I moved it to the beginning of the episode so you don't have to wait :) React Native released a blog post about their Team Principles.  It's often easy to criticize Facebook for what they do, but they really have this figured out. Then we jump over to review the new features of React Native 0.63, the new improved logBox functionality, Pushable, and other awesome features.  Two thumbs up to...

This week Jon and Spencer celibate the fact you are indeed listening, or at least downloading the show.Then Salt & Peppa talk about how you can push it with One Signal, Firebase, AWS and Urban Airship.  They get into the types and benefits of using push notifications in your app, and dare you, the listeners to hit us up on Twitter. Links4 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Push Notification Provider for a React Native App:...

This week Spencer and Jon talk about Apple's return to physicality in design and then dive into deep linking into your mobile applications.  They cover the two different types of deep linking (URL Schemes and Universal) and dream up interesting (and probably stupid) ways to utilize them.0:15 - Weekly catchup1:11 - News - Neumorphic design6:45 - Deep Linking19:30 - OutroLinksNeumorphismhttps://www.inputmag.com/design/apple-macos-big-sur-the-rise-of-neumorphismDeep Linking Video...

This week we investigate Touchables and the many different ways you can have your app accept (or not accept) touches properly. 0:17 - Intro3:28 - Spotify Lite project4:53 - TypeScript?7:27 - Touchables in general9:35 - TouchableWithoutFeedback10:30 - Enabling secret features12:46 - TouchableHighlight13:55 - TouchableOpacity14:22 - TouchableHighlight (take 2)15:01 - TouchableNativeFeedback16:09 - Legitimization (Drink!)21:54 - OutroLinksBetter Cross-Platform React Native Components:...