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Building a Mobile App in 10 Days with React Native
Note: This is an ongoing series of blog posts detailing how we made an iOS & Android mobile app in 10 days. Feel free to follow me here or on Twitter to get updated when the other articles are published.
The not quite finalized list:
- Building a Mobile App in 10 Days with React Native
- Building a Node API with Express & Google Cloud SQL
- Easy React Native Authentication: Auth0
- React Native: Barcode Scanning & Autocomplete
- Using AirBnB’s Lottie Animations with React Native
- Deploying a React Native App to the App Store & Google Play
Summary
My friend Connor Maddox and I built this app together. He’s an embedded systems engineer with Boeing and I lead the product team at Realeflow, a real estate investor SaaS company. We are not Javascript wizards. That is to say, if you see something that could be improved, please feel free to let us know!
We *actually* built the app in 10 days. It nearly killed us. We had to learn a lot within a short period of time but we had an incredibly good time doing it. I primarily handled the iOS side, while Connor did the Android part. A lot of pizza and beer were consumed (Leinenkugel grapefruit shandy is life!)
This is what the app looked like when we launched it at 10 days:
Getting Started
I wish we could say that we started formally and had Sketch designs of where we wanted to end up, but honestly the project sort of evolved from one night of messing around. We didn’t even decide to set the goal of finishing in ten days until day three. I’d definitely recommend having, at a minimum, some back-of-the-napkin sketches before embarking on an app build. It would have saved us a lot of time.
