With SDK 56, @expo/ui gives you real SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose components in React Native. No JavaScript reimplementations, no platform-specific code splitting. Just import once and get native components that follow platform conventions. Universal components in Expo UI, across Android, iOS and web. The library is bundled into Expo Go and included in the default [create-expo-app](https://docs.ex…
Hi, my name is Ri. I'm a software developer, but I had never built a game before. No game dev experience, no Unity skills, nothing. Just curiosity and a decision to try. Three months later I have two games live on the App Store. Here's what I actually did. Why Not Unity? Everyone says "use Unity for games." I tried. I spent time learning Unity, went through tutorials, understood the basics. Then …
The Problem There are various ways to present content to users on mobile, such as popups, dropdowns, bottom sheets, and center sheets. In most apps, these appear as modals, a focused layer that sits above the rest of the interface. In React Native, the built-in Modal component achieves this. However, its API surface is limited and tightly coupled with native presentation behavior. Once you requir…
Most React Native AI integrations I've seen share two failure modes: they're locked to one provider, and they have no strategy for rate limits. After rebuilding the same glue code across multiple projects, I packaged it into react-native-ai-hooks v0.6.0. The Core Problems Provider Fragmentation Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini all return structurally different responses. Building UI on top of that m…
