Mobile App Development

Tutorial

How to Get Better Performance Out of Your React Native App

Adopted the world over by massively successful companies, React Native offers a promising solution for those developing cross-platform applications. To reach the true performance potential of your React Native app though, optimization is a crucial step. Here are some optimizations you can make!

Hospitality

A Guide to Developing Apps & Software for Hotels

The hotel, or lodging, industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, and custom software can give hotels a competitive edge. In this article, we'll take a look at the different types of software solutions available to the hotel industry and highlight the features they should have.

Python

Python vs Rust: Which is Better?

When it comes to Python vs. Rust, you'll find loyal adopters on both sides that swear that one is better than the other. But is one side right? In this article, we aim to find out!

Tutorial

How to Offer Multi-language Support in a React Native App

As a business grows, it's natural to expand into markets in other countries and regions, and it's important to cater to the language needs of the communities you are expanding into as well. In this tutorial, we share how you can add multi-language support to a React Native app.

Tutorial

How to Implement AdMob Ads in a React Native App

When you're looking to monetize your app, there are quite a few options available to you, and in-app ads are one of the easiest options to implement. In this tutorial, we'll take you through the process you can use to implement AdMob functionality in your React Native app.

Developer Tools

React Native Component Libraries to Try in Your Next Build

React Native's extensive open source community offers many different ready-to-use component libraries, but with so many options, how do you choose which one to use? In this article, we've compiled a list of our favorites.

Design Thinking

A Guide to Mobile App Usability Testing: Methods, Tools, and Best Practices

Usability testing is a powerful tool you can use to evaluate the functionality of your mobile app and helps you ensure that users are able to navigate your app with ease. In this article, we’ll explain what usability testing is and cover some tools and best practices to help you get started.

Modular Development

Best Practices for Building a Modularized App

Building a modular app requires expertise and deep knowledge of coding principles and their workflows. In this article, we highlight some best practices for modular app development.

React Native

How to Create a Custom Image Gallery in React Native

In React Native, there are many different ways to go about displaying a collection of images in a gallery view, and a carousel is one of the most popular methods to achieve this. But what if you want to create a custom gallery view with additional functionality? In this tutorial, we'll show you how!

React Hook

How to Create a Custom Tab Bar in React Native

React Native is an amazing tool for creating beautiful and high-performing mobile applications that run on both iOS and Android. In this post, we're going to create a custom tab bar using the React Navigation library bottom tabs component.

Universal Apps

Understanding Universal Applications

Universal app development saves you time and money. Here's an introduction to what universal applications are and the best tools you can use to build them.

React Native

React Native Performance: Do and Don't

React Native is a cross-platform JavaScript library that creates high-performance apps by default. However, there are a few tricks you can use to optimize your React Native performance.

React Native for Windows

The State of React Native for Windows + macOS in 2021

React Native for Windows + macOS is an open source framework maintained by Windows that enables you to build desktop apps with React Native. Here's what RN for Windows + macOS has planned for 2021.

Non-Profit

How Your Non-Profit Can Use Technology to Grow

Non-profit organizations are beginning to embrace custom app development. Here are some ways that your 501(c)(3) can expand its donor base and overall impact.

Mobile App Development

How to Know If You Really Do (or Don't) Need a Mobile App

Mobile apps can help you reach customers in new and valuable ways, but they're not right for every business. Here's a guide to determining whether you really need to build an iOS or Android app.

CCPA

How to Make Your Crowdbotics App CCPA-Compliant

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) applies to product or services databases, websites, and mobile apps. To comply with the legislation, developers have to make sure that they follow best practices from the start.

Mobile App Development

8 Things That a Mobile App Can Do That Your Website Can’t

Mobile apps and websites aren't just different in terms of their structure; they are also built for different classes of user. Here are some advantages that only a mobile web app can offer your users.

White Label Apps

How to Keep Margins High While Selling White Label Apps to Clients

A "white label" app is an application as a service that is developed by one company and then rebranded and sold to the clients of a different company. Here's how to sustainably grow your business with white label development.

React Native

How to Create a Custom Mobile React Native App with Crowdbotics

Learn how to build a full-stack React Native / Django application with the Crowdbotics App Builder.

Product Development

A Day in the Life of a Crowdbotics Developer

What do Crowdbotics developers do all day? Are they worth the money they make? What goes on in their workplace? Get a glimpse into life as a Crowdbotics engineer.

React Native

How to Add React Native Web in a Crowdbotics Mobile App

Using React Native Web, an open-source project, React Native core API components can be used to build a web application using the same source code. It uses React DOM at the core to render a majority of React Native components.

Mobile App Development

A Simple Guide to Native, Hybrid, and Web Apps

Compare the benefits and drawbacks of different app types in order to make the most informed decision on which one to choose.

React Native

React Native's Re-Architecture in 2020

Originally announced in 2018, the React Native re-architecture is an ongoing effort by Facebook to make the platform more robust and address common issues.

React Native

How to Integrate Custom Calendar Event Creation In a React Native Crowdbotics App

Create events and add them to a mobile device's native calendar app directly from within a custom React Native app.

React Native

Add a Real-Time Database with Your React Native Chat App with Firestore

Our anonymous React Native chat app tutorial continues with how to store and display chat threads using an integrated Firestore database.

React Native

Build an Anonymous Chat App with React Native and Firebase

The anonymous sign-in method provided by Firebase enables you to create a React Native chat app that does not require users to login. Here's how.

React Native

How to Use Formik and Context API to Build Crowdbotics React Native Apps with Firebase

The React Context API gives you access to props from any level of the component tree. You can pair it with Firebase and Formik to create simple user login flows with Crowdbotics.

React Native

How to Use Redux Hooks in a React Native App

Learn how to use Redux Hooks in a simple shopping cart app created with React Native and Crowdbotics.

Blueprint

How StarCrossed Uses the Crowdbotics Dating Blueprint to Help You Find "Love at First Sign"

Crowdbotics sat down with Colin Henderson to discuss how he used the Crowdbotics Dating App Blueprint to build his astrology-themed dating app, StarCrossed.

i18n

Using i18n in React Native apps

Internationalization (i18n) is essential for any app with a global user base. Here's how to implement it in a React Native app with Crowdbotics.

React Native

Using WebViews to Connect a React Native App to Web

WebViews add browser-style functionality to native apps. Here's how to implement WebViews in your Crowdbotics React Native app.

React Native

How to Add Support for Dark and Light Themes in React Native with Crowdbotics

Your React Native app built with Crowdbotics can support light and dark themes chosen by users. Here's how.

React Native

An In-Depth Guide to Using React Native Image Picker

This tutorial explains how to implement the React Native community module react-native-image-picker, which enables your app to select an image from the user's camera or photo gallery.

React Native

How to Add a Search Bar in a FlatList in React Native Apps

Create a list of items populated by a remote API and search them using FlatList in React Native and Crowdbotics.

React Native

Add a Pinch-to-Zoom Function using React Native Gesture Handler

Learn how to add pinch-to-zoom functionality to your mobile app with the open source React Native package react-native-gesture-handler.

Mobile App Development

Building First-in-the-World Tech on an "Impossible" Timeline with Crowdbotics

We sat down with Robbi Katherine Anthony to discuss the process of building her gender transition guidance app, Solace (solace.lgbt), on an "impossible" timeline.

App Store Optimization

How to optimize your app listing in the Apple App Store

This article was originally published on Root Shell #_ by root. For more information on ASO in Google Play Store, take a look at the similar article here. Keywords in your App Name have a lot of…

React Native

How to Build A Facial Recognition Mobile App with React Native, Expo, and Kairos

Facial recognition — once the stuff of sci-fi novels — is now a widely used technology. In this post, I will I will show you how to develop a basic face-detecting mobile app with React Native and…

React Native

How To Make A Simple ‘Accelerometer’-Based Driving Game with React Native Expo

When I discovered React Native Expo’s feature ‘Accelerometer’, I thought it would be fun to develop a racing game using this functionality. As Bill Gates said: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard…

Mobile App Development

The Best Low- and No-Code Mobile App Development Platforms

If you're semi- or non-technical, a low- or no-code mobile app development platform may be the best way for you to reach your customers on their platform of choice, without breaking the bank.

Outsourcing

How To Grow Your Agency’s Bottom Line With White Label Services

White label services are often an efficient way for agencies to increase profitability by improving margin and growing top-line revenue at the same time.