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 anythin

E029 - Pi-RATS of the Caribbean (Building Reusable Components)

Dec 17th, 2020 39m 58s

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 c

E-028: Blame it on the potatoes [React Native 0.64]

Dec 10th, 2020 30m 17s

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 cov

E-027: Javascript Runtime

Dec 3rd, 2020 40m 31s

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

E-026 Pour me another Draft(bit) please - Talking Draftbit with Peter Piekarczyk

Nov 19th, 2020 44m 31s

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 inter

E-025: Improving your UI / UX Skilz

Nov 9th, 2020 51m 13s

** 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

E-024: Cool Packages, Posts and Projects

Nov 5th, 2020 40m 41s

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.

E-023 Give it a Rest and use GraphQL

Oct 29th, 2020 38m 36s

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,

E-022 Securing your app

Oct 22nd, 2020 26m

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 unfortunat

E-021: The Best Way To Learn Anything

Oct 15th, 2020 45m 3s

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 -

E-020 Dealing with Bugs (that you didn't write)

Oct 8th, 2020 13m 19s

In this episode, Jon ditches Spencer so he can move all his things and Spencer catches you up with his latest project and talks about dealing with Bugs that you didn't write yourself.0:20 - Where’s Jon?!1:12 - Spencer Update: The perpetual “l

E-019 React Native EU Highlights

Oct 1st, 2020 36m 57s

Jon and Spencer discuss the sessions from React Native EU that they enjoyed. ACTUAL MOBILE NEWS .... and React Native News!0:00 - Intro3:52 - iOS 146:10 - Android 117:52 - New iPad & Trying to Figure out how Stylus’ work10:13- Expo SDK

E-018 - Authentication Workflows

Sep 27th, 2020 33m 30s

This week Spencer and Jon talk about how to implement authentication workflows into you app. Using this overall methodology, you can shove whatever auth you want into your app. Continue with Epic news and a cool new phone that may be Jon's br

E-017 - Doctorate in Voodoo Science with a concentration in F.O. (Flatlist Optimization)

Sep 10th, 2020 45m 2s

Spencer and Jon help you boost the performance in your Flatlist components, because if implemented badly, it can really take a toll on your app, rendering blanks, and causing laggy behavior.They dig into various performance boosting items you

E-016 Hope Springs Eternal Disappointment (Animations with React Native)

Sep 3rd, 2020 35m 16s

This week Jon drives down that Road To Hell he paved with good intentions, and faces the fact that hope sucks and he'll never have time to do the things he wants to.On the brighter side of the podcast, Spencer dives into various ways to make t

E-015 Guest from the West - Jamon Holmgren from Infinite Red

Aug 27th, 2020 1h 7m

This week we're joined by Jamon Holmgren to talk about React Native Community, the Lean Core initiative, Ignite, Reactotron and more.0:00 Intro0:53 - Pronunciation apologies2:22 - Jamon's week of small, annoying, don't have a good answer f

E-014 FireBase

Aug 20th, 2020 55m 23s

These days it's super easy to build an app with robust back-end APIs. No one has time (or let's be real, desire) to do dev-ops, so we talk about FireBase and it's myriad of offerings from simple key/value store through various extensions like

E-013 - Open your mind to testing your apps

Aug 13th, 2020 46m 34s

What an episode, Spencer, the testing king leads us on a detailed journey through Kent C. Dodds' Testing Trophy. From static "tests" through end-to-end, we cover it. Sprinkled in there with some stories of Jon's denial he's A.D.D, and Spencer

E-012 The zero intruption theory [Offline Storage and Databases]

Aug 6th, 2020 30m 22s

Offline Storage and DatabasesIn this sleepy little episode Jon pines to be back in his 20's when he pulls an all-nighter and gets so much done. We cover Storing JSON objects in AsyncStorage, different methods of hydration, why it's important

E-011 UI Kitten with Gant Laborde

Jul 30th, 2020 55m 11s

Spencer and Jon welcome Gant Laborde, CIO of Infinite Red, AI Enthusiast, Tech genius and all around great guy to talk about a plethora of items. Our main topic is UI Kitten, a way to get a new app up and running without having to worry about

E010 - React Native 0.63

Jul 23rd, 2020 35m 47s

Disaster strikes, and hilarity ensues 1/2 way through the recording, but because I'm an awesome editor, I moved it to the beginning of the episode so you don't have to wait :)React Native released a blog post about their Team Principles. It

E009 - Just Push It (Push Notifications)

Jul 16th, 2020 29m 5s

This week Jon and Spencer celebrate the fact you are indeed listening, or at least downloading the show.Then Salt & Peppa talk about how you can push it with One Signal, Firebase, AWS and Urban Airship. They get into the types and benefits of

E008 - Deep Linking - the how and why

Jul 9th, 2020 20m 19s

This week Spencer and Jon talk about Apple's return to physicality in design and then dive into deep linking into your mobile applications. They cover the two different types of deep linking (URL Schemes and Universal) and dream up interesting

E007 - Can't Touch This - All About Touchables

Jul 2nd, 2020 23m 3s

This week we investigate Touchables and the many different ways you can have your app accept (or not accept) touches properly.0:17 - Intro3:28 - Spotify Lite project4:53 - TypeScript?7:27 - Touchables in general9:35 - TouchableWithoutFee

E006 - Our Development Environments and Workflows

Jun 25th, 2020 55m 23s

Jon and Spencer talk about their setups, what they use and different approaches to development.LinksiOS 14 in 4 minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDguZoYn5ISnapchat's augmented reality camera can identify dog breeds and plant spec