How I learned React Native in a weekend and shipped an app

I have prior ios experience and was able to get the view side of React Native working without much problems, but once I started needing to store something on the device (especially trying to understand Redux and other similar solutions), I hit a pretty solid wall in my development and eventually put it on the backburner.<p>It looks like you might have been able to bypass this in your app, but if not, how did you approach that aspect of it?

Prior iOS development certainly helps a lot. From my experience, a lot of time were spent debugging on Xcode to build the app itself.

You mentioned you previously shipped iOS apps. How was the Android integration with React Native?<p>Is it easy for someone unfamiliar with Android dev environment to push to Play Store?

Couple notes about the android app<p><pre><code> - the icon is broken, all I see is the green android face - when i log in to youtube, it says the log in is from an Iphone per my google security alert - the back and forward arrows don&#x27;t look right. They don&#x27;t have the right icon to be a visual cue for back and forward. They look more like previous and next. - would be great to handle full screen - video speed is not preserved when starting a new video.</code></pre>

From where React Native is headed it sounds like it is going to significantly devalue the experience of a lot of native iOS and Android developers.

This is why we need mobile devices that run a full operating system and full browser. Missing features and incompatibility make mobile useless in many real-world cases.<p>Why can&#x27;t we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

What did you earn and how much mobile development did you previously do?

Do you think it&#x27;s possible to monetize this to make it a full time gig?

I don&#x27;t understand the purpose of the app, can someone explain?

&quot;I do experience with React, but none with React Native.&quot;<p>Oh

The header animation is terribly distracting and annoying. I though &quot;let&#x27;s follow the mouse pointer with something gimmicky&quot; went out the door with geocities.

What&#x27;s with the flickering header?