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:

1. Building a Mobile App in 10 Days with React Native
2. Building a Node API with Express & Google Cloud SQL
3. Easy React Native Authentication: Auth0
4. React Native: Barcode Scanning & Autocomplete
5. Using AirBnB’s Lottie Animations with React Native
6. 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…