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React Navigation, is a new navigation package for React Native that justified restructuring our entire app to incorporate this new implementation. Why is React Navigation important?
I’ll discuss below how we applied this great framework to our company’s product and share 2 tips with you.
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We’ve been dealing with many many different apps. App quality and usability are always our core values we never settle for less.
There are some common UX mistakes that engineers often overlooked. Getting these discovered and handled, one can build greater apps.
Get ready, here are our top 10:
In one of the Android app projects at Oursky, we started using Realm for data caching. So users won’t have to look at blank pages when they log back to the app, waiting for remote API results.
We think it’s a minimalistic yet reliable solution, and is worth giving it a shot for your next app. Just beware of the differences between versions, follow the conventions, and pay extra attention when using with other libraries.
More is discussed below in details and with example snippets.
Realm is the mobile database solution that proposed as a replacement for SQLite & Core Data.
It’s like using SQLite with an ORM (as those who used SQLAlchemy may have experience), with a lot of awesome and convenient methods for data transactions.
However, Realm is NOT built on top of SQLite. It persists on its own persistence engine.
Realm is also cross-platform that supports both iOS and Android, so developers who write Java, Swift, Objective-C can share the same Realm files painlessly.
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