Arpit Dhiman’s Post

🚀 Just released an update to react-native-emoji-container! This update brings performance improvements, smoother interactions, and enhanced customization options to make emoji pickers feel fast and native in React Native apps. If you're building chat, social, or messaging features, this package helps you integrate a highly customizable emoji container with ease. Drop it into your app with: npm install react-native-emoji-container Would love your feedback and contributions 🙌 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gGhsjrzP #ReactNative #OpenSource #NPM #MobileDevelopment #JavaScript

Built a full company website from scratch today using Next.js 15 and Tailwind v4. Airtable-powered content sync, full SEO setup with JSON-LD schema, sitemap generation, and Vercel cron jobs for automated data sync. Also pushed a mobile app release and a desktop app hotfix. Three repos, one Friday. Ship it. 🚀 #NextJS #TailwindCSS #WebDevelopment #FullStack #BuildInPublic

At Darvin.dev we’ve always been mobile-first. The idea from the beginning was that every app you create should be optimized for native mobile experiences from day one. Under the hood, Darvin generates Flutter apps. Because Flutter is a cross-platform framework, the same app can also run on the web. With 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, you can now export the full source code of your app as a ready-to-deploy web project and host it anywhere: • Your own domain • Vercel, Netlify, Firebase Hosting • Your own server or infrastructure This is different from Publish inside Darvin. Publish gives you a quick shareable web link. Export gives you full ownership and deployment control. Build once. Ship to every screen. Darvin.dev

🚀 How I Fixed a White Screen & Performance Issue in a React Native App While working on a production React Native app, I faced a frustrating issue: ⚠️ Random white screen on Android ⚠️ UI freezing when navigating between screens ⚠️ Memory spikes after multiple re-renders After debugging deeply, here’s what I found 👇 🔍 Root Causes: Unnecessary re-renders due to inline functions Heavy components not memoized Improper state persistence handling Unoptimized image rendering 💡 What I Improved: ✔ Used memo for reusable components ✔ Applied useCallback & useMemo properly ✔ Cleaned navigation stack logic ✔ Optimized FlatList with keyExtractor & getItemLayout ✔ Reduced unnecessary Redux updates 📈 Result: Smoother navigation No more white screen Improved performance on low-end Android devices Better memory stability React Native apps don’t just need features — They need performance-focused architecture. If you're building a scalable mobile app with React Native, let's connect 🤝 #ReactNative #MobileDevelopment #FrontendDeveloper #JavaScript #PerformanceOptimization

🚀 Introducing react-native-smart-gplaces, The easiest way to integrate Google Places Autocomplete in your React Native apps! As mobile developers, we know how important it is to provide fast, reliable, and customizable location search experiences. That’s why I built react-native-smart-gplaces – a fully optimized, hook-based Google Places Autocomplete package for React Native. ✨ Key Features: ✅  Fully hook-based for easy integration ✅  Supports both Google Places Legacy and New APIs ✅  Customizable UI: list, list item, search input, loader, empty state ✅  Fetch Place Details seamlessly (name, address, phone, opening hours, images, coordinates) ✅  Optimized API calls for better performance & cost-efficiency 💡 Whether you’re building a delivery app, travel app, or any location-based service, this package makes integrating Google Places a breeze. 📦 Check it out on GitHub and npm: GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gZsnF4ht npm: https://lnkd.in/gudAZHWW ⭐ Give it a star if you find it useful!

React Native isn’t just a web app in disguise. It delivers real native components with near native performance. Choose facts. Build smarter. #Anemoia #AnemoiaDe #MythVsFact #ReactNative #MobileAppDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment #TechFacts #AppDevelopment #CrossPlatform #DevelopersLife #TechEducation

Releva now covers every mobile stack. We already support native Android, native iOS, and Flutter. Today we're adding React Native to the lineup. No matter how your app is built, Releva's AI deisioning and personalization now runs natively inside it. What it brings to your #reactnative app: Personalization — AI product recommendations, dynamic banners, stories, content blocks, and smart search with advanced filtering. The same decisioning intelligence that powers your website, now native in your app. Full mobile tracking — Screen views, product interactions, cart changes, checkout events, search analytics, custom events. Unified with your web behavioral data. One customer profile, zero blind spots between browser and app. Push notifications — Firebase integration with structured navigation. Users tap a push and land on the right product, right screen, right context. Delivered, opened, and dismissed tracking built in. Why this matters: Your app is no longer a separate silo. Every mobile interaction feeds Releva's optimization loop — the same engine that orchestrates web, email, push, ads, and SMS. One brain, every channel, now every mobile framework.

After working on 15+ React Native projects, I found a practical approach to streamline state and navigation that made all the difference in app stability and speed. On a recent client app, the state was scattered across multiple contexts and heavy Redux usage, causing unnecessary re-renders and slow screen transitions. I consolidated state into well-scoped slices with React Query and simplified navigation using React Navigation's native stack. This cut load times by nearly 40% and reduced crashes caused by outdated state sync. Plus, tweaking navigation events helped prefetch critical data earlier, making the user experience feel smoother and faster. Changing state structure mid-project is never easy, but clear boundaries and light tooling made debugging way simpler. The client was thrilled to see fewer support tickets about performance. If your React Native app feels sluggish or buggy, take a closer look at how your state and navigation are wired. Small changes there can pay off big. How have you tackled performance in your React Native apps? Curious to hear your tips! #CloudComputing #SoftwareDevelopment #ReactNative #MobileApps #AppPerformance #StateManagement #ReactQuery #Solopreneur #DigitalFounder #StartupLife #Intuz

I was building a webhook feature into Elmtrail and I wanted an easy way to see what the requests would look like on the receiving end and to test what would happen if the target system gave back errors, took too long, redirected, etc. I found several tools to do this, but all of them were either expensive, bloated with other features, required me to create accounts and had subscriptions or were heavy Electron apps. Why isn't there an easy to use, lightweight, native app to do this? So I decided to build Decoy. I kept adding features such as code highlighting, redirects and other things I liked and then I decided to share it with the world. Today it is live on Product Hunt, see comment for the link.

🚨 Things tutorials don’t teach you about building mobile apps When you start learning React Native, everything looks simple. Build UI → connect API → done. But real-world apps are very different. Here are some challenges I faced while building production mobile apps 👇 1️⃣ Offline handling Users lose internet anytime. Your app must still work and sync data later. 2️⃣ API failures Servers fail, timeouts happen, responses change. Your UI must handle errors gracefully. 3️⃣ Performance optimization Large lists, animations, and heavy state updates can slow down your app. Optimization becomes very important. 4️⃣ Real-time updates Polling APIs is inefficient. Using WebSockets makes apps feel instant. 💡 What I learned Building features is easy. Building reliable apps is the real challenge. That’s where engineering begins. 💬 What’s the hardest problem you faced while building an app? #ReactNative #MobileDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #TypeScript #WebSocket #AppDevelopment #Developers