This week, Jon ramps up his brewing plans with a logo contest, Spencer's girlfriend comes through and lands an XBox and hopefully is overcoming his motion sickness. In the React arena we discuss state management and if you've never used anything more than component state we got you covered.  You'll learn when to up your state game and possibly which type of state management solution will work for you and your app. If you've gotten into Redux or MobX, this is still interesting because we discuss the differences between multiple solutions and you may hear something that may make you switch ..read more

In this episode, Jon deal with rats and realizes he can do impressions.  Spencer gets motion sick over video games but still wants (yet can't find) an xBox. Our main topic this week covers how to be lazy when building mobile apps by carefully constructing reusable components saving you time and hopefully frustration. Building a mobile app can be challenging, but you can make it easier on yourself by using some tools and patterns to build reusable components.  meaning you can use the same component in multiple places throughout your app, and in other apps.   0:00 - Intro 0:50 - R ..read more

This week Jon is losing his mind and obsessing over his brewery and where it will be, Spencer can't cool and still can't find an Xbox, but does seem to come up with some cheeky titles for his new courses. When we get down to React Native we cover the important details about the recently released v0.64, what you need to do to prepare and what features are worth knowing about. 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Spencer can't cook 5:05 - Jon's brewery news 8:17 - Spencer's weekly update 13:31 - Mobile news (Amazon's new MacOS EC2) 15:58 - React Native 0.64 16:01 - Hermes for iOS 17:24 - inline requires 19:42 ..read more

This week Spencer really wants an XBox and keeps getting denied, if anyone has a hookup - let him know.  Jon gets sucked into the mechanical keyboard community. Then we focus in React Native and talk about how it all works with transpiling and polyfills,. The best part is that you don't need to understand all of this to use it and make great Apps.   03:20 - Jon fell down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole08:10 - Apple Cutting Fees to 15% (if making less than $1mil/year)10:10 - Foxconn and flip phones12:40 - Spencer’s warning: he just learned what he’s talking about14:40 - What is a ..read more

We have a new friends of the show - Peter Piekarczyk joins us to talk about his company Draftbit and how it can help accelerate your mobile app development using their interface.  Build multiple screens, complex UIs with their drag-n-drop interface, tweak properties to get it just right and view the generated code, or export your app so you're not jailed into their system!  Oh did I mention you can scan a QR code at any point and view it immediately on your device?  Pretty amazing. We also talk about beer, black Friday preparations, travel during these weird times and a lot more ..read more

** Releasing this early this week ** ** Because we talk about the "One More Thing" event on November 10th** Did you know that Spencer wants to be a gamer now? He thinks hiring a VA is going to give him that time haha.  Jon is looking to fill in any free time he had but opening a brewery in his town and plans are flying all over the place. We would be remiss if we didn't mention quickly the burning trash heap that is our Election process. BUT you're here for mobile development, so ... Do your mobile apps look like crap?  Yea we thought so too.  We're going to cover how  you ..read more

This week Jon sells his car and and Smoky The Bear (aka Spencer) talks about how ONLY YOU can prevent Chimney Fires. When they settle down for the show topic, the guys review the cool packages, posts and projects they've come across recently.  There's some pretty neat things covered in this episode and really isn't even the tip of the iceberg. If you have one to add - let us know and we'll mention it and YOU on the show.   0:17 - Welcome 0:44 - Jon's catchup / car and demo 3:30 - Spencer's catchup and fire prevention lesson 7:19 - Spencer's new class about building a chat app 8:19 ..read more

It's a big week for us, we discover that Spencer wants to hang up his laptop for a lathe and be a wood worker and why Jon is living MTV's Big Brother - sharing a living space with strangers. Microsoft is rebuilding their apps with React Native, there's been several important albeit un-exciting updates to React and Node and we talk about NPM trying to go to war with Yarn. For this week's topic we dive into what GraphQL is (and is not), why it's pretty cool and we cover both client and server implementations including 3rd party services.   01:30 - Spencer’s off week and lack of an update02 ..read more

Whelp, if you record often enough, you'll have a disaster.  Unfortunately Jon's mic was all static and very noisy for the first part of the show, so this episode doesn't have our typical catchup and mobile news sections. This is VERY unfortunate because Jon actually had a lot of extra time this past week to do some research and first hand dinking around with his app and talks about the different things he did. We jump straight into securing your app, from how to securely store data to jail break protection.   0:00 - Intro 1:30 - environment vars (react-native-dotenv, react-native-con ..read more

Jon's back!  In this episode we catch up a bit since it's been a couple weeks since we've spoken, we celebrate Spencer's launch of Spectrum 3, hit some Epic news and dive into the best ways we learn with tips along the way. 0:00 - Intro  1:07 - Jon's moving saga and office space 5:11 - Spencer's update, Spectrum launch and camping naked 7:55 - NEWS:  React Native Radio 8:31 - Digital Ocean App Platform 11:13 - EPIC News / Court Date 11:44 - The Best Way To Learn [#clickBait] 13:25 - Doc diving 19:54 - The proper way to use tutorials + critical thinking 24:44 - Suck it up butterc ..read more