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by htormey 10y ago
This is exactly the direction I am moving with my client. Prior to reading about this library I was planning on using the latest version of react-router to do this. See: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router h
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by htormey 10y ago
Anyone familiar with how this compares to react-router? I hear they are adding react native support. https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router
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The mobile app gold rush may be over(techcrunch.com)
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by htormey 10y ago
It's a medical marijuana delivery service which currently only operates in California.
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by htormey 10y ago
If you are just doing polling when your app is in the foreground, you should not have to write any native code. All of the polling can be handled in your actions. If you need to poll in the background when the phones screen is locked, then
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by htormey 10y ago
Also, how is this any different from A/B testing which has been industry standard for a long time. Unless you really abuse pushing over the air you are not going to get in trouble. Also, as the author notes, over the air updates for JS
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by htormey 10y ago
I literally just did this for one of my clients (react native app, Android/iOS). The figures he sites are within the right ballpark. You can check the app out here: https://appsto.re/us/P0eAgb.i
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by htormey 10y ago
In theory so is A/B testing yet pretty much every major app (Facebook/Pinterest/Airbnb/Google) has been doing it for years. It's very unlikely you would get in trouble unless you abuse it terribly. Also the app stor
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by htormey 10y ago
I spoke to a few people at Airbnb about this. Supposedly about 10-20% of the app is React native. I really doubt that Instagram have ditched all of their Native code for React native.
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by htormey 10y ago
I'm a long term native developer who's been doing react native contacting for the past 6 months. One big issue that you run into is if you need to do long running background tasks (network polling, bluetooth, music, etc) you basic
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The cost of native mobile app development is too high(hackernoon.com)
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by htormey 10y ago
I don't think PWAs are quite ready on iOS yet. "You may be thinking that PWAs are a non-starter until iOS starts to support the manifest standard and service workers, but I have news for you: You can achieve PWA-like behavior with
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by htormey 10y ago
Any examples? I've been working with RN for the past few months and it's been pretty good. Only issues where I had to do some native wrapping were around background location polling and a client using a Microsoft websocket clone c
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by htormey 10y ago
My favorite thing about react/react native development is the unidirectional flow of data. Specifically I like how it gives you: 1) Deterministic View Renders 2) Deterministic State Reproduction I think the following article gives a go
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by htormey 11y ago
I dont use any yahoo products but I seem ro recall fantasy sports, finance and yahoo mail still being pretty massive. Is that not still the case?
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by htormey 11y ago
This article seems very light on data to back up its main claim: "You'll notice that the incoming and outgoing arrows in this diagram aren't equal. There's more money being made from advertising than consumers are puttin
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by htormey 11y ago
"t's not the tool, it's bad developer practices. See my other comment on multiple people editing the same interdependent constraints. Never a good idea, even in obj-c or swift code." That doesn't address the fact th
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by htormey 11y ago
This^
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by htormey 11y ago
Yep, it's still pretty unreadable in my opinion.
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by htormey 11y ago
"Choose whatever works for you. Interface Builder can save you so much time building some of the smaller aspects of your app (help/about screens) etc. that it's foolish in my opinion to just "do away" with IB on pri
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by htormey 11y ago
I've done android development as well as iOS development. The big difference is that the xml spat out by the android tools is readable and easily hand editable as opposed to the xml produced by interface builder. At the start of the ar
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Should you use interface builder?(engineering.remind.com)
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by htormey 11y ago
I know Mozilla are a non profit but doesn't most of their funding come from google (I.e advertising) for promoting their search product?
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by htormey 11y ago
See my above reply.
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by htormey 11y ago
I have been living in the Bay area for the last 8 years but originally I grew up and went to university in Ireland. Hardly the center of the tech universe at the time. I made a lot of contacts by organizing local meetups, travelling to diff
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by htormey 11y ago
"People who haven't been to college aren't likely to have those kinds of connections. If they do, they're not going to be desperate for work." It's really not that hard to meet and develop a relationship with s
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by htormey 11y ago
A great documentary miniseries about this topic is War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer. In particular, the episode anyone's son will do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%28miniseries%29 https://www.youtub
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by htormey 12y ago
East bay is pretty reasonable if you work in SF: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/eby/apa?sort=priceasc&max...
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by htormey 12y ago
I am really sad to hear about this crash. In case anyone is interested in the technology behind SpaceshipTwo here is a brilliant documentary about Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites and the development of SpaceshipOne: https://www.you
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by htormey 12y ago
According to his linkedin profile he spent 4 years at Google in Zurich, 1 year at Microsoft and less than a year at Facebook: www.linkedin.com/in/dimakorolev He doesn't state whether he worked at Facebook's Menlo Park or

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