🎄 Day 24 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: React Native in 2026? A personal look at why React Native remains my go-to in 2026. Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

I reviewed 3 real React Native apps from the community 👀📱 A step tracking game, a private note taking app, and a board game - all built with React Native. There’s a lot to learn from these if you’re building your own project. Here’s what stood out 👇

🎄 Day 22 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Reverse-engineering OS Apps 🧑‍💻 One of the fastest ways to grow as a React Native engineer is to study living, breathing apps - and these examples are amazing. Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 21 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: React Native Starter Stack 🎁 I’m sharing my opinionated React Native starter stack for 2026 with the exact tools I'd use if I started a new app today. Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 20 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Native Modules Showdown 🤺 What are the differences between Turbo, Expo and Nitro Modules? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 19 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Performance Tips 🚀 7 essential performance tips that will make your React Native apps faster, smoother, and more responsive! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 18 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: iOS Simulator MCP 🤩 Imagine testing your React Native app by simply describing what you want to test in natural language! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Finished the new Adventure system, now waiting for iOS & Android App Review 🫰

🎄 Day 17 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: State Management tips 😎 Which state management solution are you going to use in 2026? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🚨 React Native 0.83 is out - and it’s a great one. Plus a critical React security issue every dev should know about 👇

Working on a new Adventure system with Explorer characters and different regions. WYT?

Not entirely matching keywords for my game but looks like I start to climb positions 🚀

🎄 Day 15 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: CSS Animations ✨ Did you know Reanimated now also supports CSS Animations? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Opus 4.5, GPT 5.5, Antigravity... What are you currently using and what's the best?

🎄 Day 14 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: OS Animations ✨ Today we celebrate the 110+ Animation Examples from Enzo Mangano! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 13 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: AI SDK ✨ Want to use any LLM? You have to try the AI SDK! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Created a Discord Server for Tiny Harvest 🌾 If you like the game, come join and hang out 👇 discord.gg/TamsAM37rc

🎄 Day 12 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Folder Structure 🗂️ What's the most reliable folder structure for a React Native project? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Trying something new: In-App Events! Added a little Winter Special to Tiny Harvest, so maybe this get's some eyes on the game over the holiday time 🎅

🎄 Day 11 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: DevTools 🧑‍💻 Did you know about these tools to debug your React Native app? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

I'm glad I can test my app on an old Android device but use a modern iPhone every day 🙈

Finished the refactoring of Tiny Harvest 🎉 Instead of a huge 12k LoC context, the game is now using small Zustand stores instead. Hope the effort of 3 days nonstop work pays off and the game is now more stable, not loses any items and especially more performant on Android ✌️

🎄 Day 10 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Environment Variables 👀 Do you know how to safely use public and private keys? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

I built an AI-powered App Builder with React Native 😳 Ask for an app -> Build it with AI -> Have a real InstantDB connected! Honestly… I almost couldn't believe the first results I got 👇

I have learned more about profiling, debugging performance and rendering issues in the last 24h than in the last year... Not yet finished, but performance of Tiny Harverst is slowly getting better 🤞

🎄 Day 8 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Advanced Features of Expo Router 😱 From RSC to headless UI and native intents, did you know @expo.dev Router can do all of that? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 7 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Every Way to Build Your Expo App 🔥 Expo Go, dev builds, production EAS? Understand when and how to use which! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 6 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Expo Atlas 🧭 Use @Expo.dev Atlas to understand dependencies and optimize app performance! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 5 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: AI-Assisted Coding 🧑‍💻 How do you get the most out of IDEs & LLMs in combination with React Native? Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

Have you released a React Native app lately? Let's do a December App Review video, so drop your app links 👇

🎄 Day 4 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Expo UI ⚡️ Drop down to truly native SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose components with ease! Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

🎄 Day 3 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: Quick Push & SnapAI ⚡️ Explore two amazing developer tools that will speed up your workflow. Open the door 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

I just released my cozy little farming game 🌾 Tiny Harvest is now live on the App Store! If you enjoy chill mobile games, give it a try and let me know what you think! 👉 tinyharvest.app

🚀 Big week in React Native! CSS Grid is coming to RN, JSON parsing just got faster, Uniwind is epic, and I’ve shipped an AI-built farming game 👇

Good news for all Tiny Harvest players: I've moved rare items out of the barn into anew special storage ✌️ That way your storage won't fill up with all those rare drops.

⏰ Last day to get 35% off Galaxies.dev lifetime access. If you want to learn React Native properly in 2026, this is the best deal I run all year - one payment, lifetime access to all my courses + missions. Sale ends tonight at midnight. 👉 galaxies.dev/subscription Let’s build amazing apps 🚀

In the next release of Tiny Harvest there will be weekly events with special bonus XP / Coins 🔥

🎄 Day 1 of the React Native Advent Calendar! Behind today’s door: 5 Essential Features of Expo Router 🚀 If you’re building with @Expo.dev in 2025, these routing features will make every app a joy to work with 😍 Start here 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/20...

I built a mobile farming game in 6 days 🌱 with AI + @Expo.dev. 🎥 Watch the full breakdown + my AI Engineering Workflow

Now you can receive boosts in Tiny Harvest 🔥 Finally some useful interaction between farm friends 🤝

I’m shipping a React Native Advent Calendar this year 🎄 From Dec 1–25 you’ll get: 💡 Snackable tips 🛠️ Tool recommendations 🎁 Small Gifts Get daily updates 👇 galaxies.dev/calendar/2025

Your React Native app feels slow? It’s probably not just one thing - it’s a bunch of small mistakes adding up. 🎥 I just dropped a new video with 7 performance tips you can apply right now: 📉 Slow renders ⚡️ Animation lag 🧠 Memory issues …and how to fix them

🚀 It’s live! For this week only, you can get 35% off lifetime access to all my React Native courses + missions on Galaxies.dev. One payment → lifetime learning. All current + future content included. If you’ve wanted to level up your RN skills, this is the week. 🌌 galaxies.dev/

First Multiplayer elements arrived in Tiny Harvest 🥳 You can now create a public farm view, add friends & help other farms to get a boost ⚡️

🚀 Tiny Harvest – Test Version is LIVE! 🌾✨ tinyharvest.app/ Grow crops, craft goods, expand your farm, complete orders - and help shape the future of the game 💚 Download now (iOS & Android) - Built with React Native and @Expo.dev 👇

I just built an App Builder with InstantDB 😍 Combining @expo.dev with the right tools always feels magical. Tutorial coming soon ✌️

First time using the @Sentry Feedback widget - it rocks! Super easy to integrate with @expo, and you can easily style it or attach screenshots (

My Experience from developing a game in 6 days: Correct.

Valdi vs React Native, Uniwind v1, WebGPU, and AI-powered game development - new podcast is out👇 🔗 youtu.be/E12Ur0nsE2g

Added some daily fun elements to my game. There's always something to do 💪