I'm working on the mobile app with react native, and going to start on the desktop version. Im considering proton native because it uses the same syntax as react native does, and its size and starting duration are way much better than Electron.
Im wondering if proton native and react native can share the same codebase, since they both using the same syntax?
I have the same problem in my project.
In my mind, you can share react-native project sources to proton-native.
We just need to stick together :)
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I am new to react native and expo.
This is the module i am looking at: https://github.com/leesiongchan/react-native-esc-pos
I want to build an app that can print using bluetooth thermal printer. I am not sure if i should build it using react native or expo. Please advise me.
Thank you.
Expo has its own limitations and there are even some bugs there too, Its good for quick development as the documentation suggests the same that it is good to get you started with development within minutes without much hustle. In my opinion, React Native CLI is most of the time the best option even if you are new to react native development. Because of the following reasons
You will learn a lot as you will get your hands dirty in core react native app development.
You won't have to deal with expo limitations
You won't have to be dependent on expo tools
Any Library which requires linking or contains native modules will not work with the expo.
The library you mentioned uses many native modules and usually these type of libraries are not supported and that is the reason why they've built their own APIs and Native Components you can read this,
the developer has not mentioned Expo support anywhere on the docs but still You can open an issue on GitHub and ask the developer if it supports EXPO platform or not, or maybe instead of asking you can try the library yourself and you will find out if its working or not,
I'd like to use Expo's barcode scanner component in a non-expo app that i've already mostly built:
https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/bar-code-scanner.html
Is it reasonable to do this? Or is it more reasonable to create a new Expo app then migrate my existing codebase into the new expo app?
My existing app was created using react-ignite, not sure if that is relevant or does not make a difference.
Generally speaking, integrating Expo components with native dependencies (such as the camera) into a non-Expo app is possible, but is a bit tricky, as you'd have to lift the source code from the Expo codebase into your application.
The JavaScript code for these modules exists in the expo/expo-sdk module, and are quite straightforward:
CameraBasedBarCodeScanner
Camera
However, the native module that's required to make the Camera work are embedded within the expo/expo client application, and depends on other parts of the Expo codebase.
Instead, I recommend you use the react-native-camera component, which supports barcode scanning out of the box, and is easier to integrate into a plan React Native application.
I'm considering building mobile apps in React Native using Expo and I noticed under FAQ that existing React Native projects can be converted to Expo.
What exactly are we converting? I really like staying as pure and clean as possible without too many abstraction layers in the middle which can obscure my ability to understand what's really happening for things to work in the app.
I'd appreciate a bit more clarification about what's really happening in the conversion process and what Expo is adding to the existing project.
This topic is covered in the Expo XDE readme.
However, we didn't get it working and decided to port our code into the default Expo app (Edit: after hitting a lot of issues porting our app to Expo, we decided to revert to vanilla RN).
There are at least a few required steps missing from the documentation:
Create exp.json file
Update React and React Native libraries to the versions required by Exponent
"react": "16.0.0-alpha.6",
"react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-16.0.0.tar.gz",
We summarized on our blog why we gave up on Expo in its current form.
I just started using React Native a few days ago and want to build my next iOS/Android app with it. However, I had a question (and I apologize in advance if this question is very basic).
If I am integrating my iOS and Android apps built with React Native, with an external service (like Salesforce for example), how do I go about using the native mobile SDKs they provide for iOS and Android? As in, what do I do to integrate those SDKs into my React Native app? Those SDKs are using native Objective-C and Java code, so how would I be able to use the JS code for React Native? I believe my understanding about this is skewed.
I looked at this link which goes into it, but it seemed very confusing and I had a bit of a hard time grasping the concept (again, I am very new to this - I've done a lot of web development, hence turning my attention to React Native, but I've done no mobile development whatsoever).
If someone could please explain how that works, and point me in the right direction where I can read and learn more, I would sincerely appreciate that!
Thank you!
Checkout out this talk on SalesForce mobile SDK for React native
Official SalesForce Docs - Read Here
Also this tutorial might help you. http://rajaraodv.github.io/salesforce-react-native-tutorial/
Update:
There are react native packages build by open react native community if you couldn't find anything to access native iOS or android functionality you will have to write react native wrapper yourself using react native "Native Modules"
Native Modules
We are building a React Native application on Android. We have a requirement of creating a separate JSC virtual machine instance in a thread. We do not want to use same JSC context which is used by React Native.
We have searched a lot on web and also tried to figure out how React Native is using JSC, but we are not able to find the same.
It will be very helpful if anyone can suggest us directions for the same.
Perhaps you should take a look at this:
ericwlange/AndroidJSCore
or dive deep into React Native's Android source code.
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/ReactAndroid/src/main/jni/react/JSCExecutor.cpp