Work-Life-Balance and mental health are more important today than they ever were before, and workplace happiness is a major factor. Here are some handy tips that might help you improve the current situation for both employers and employees. Why does it matter? There have been many surveys about the positive effects of happy employees…

Last time we had a look at a more complex navigation flow using the AuthFlow Pattern. This time we will look into different types of nested navigations and adjust our main navigation flow a bit more to take care of persisted user data/login state and such. Nested Navigation inside a screen Here is a quick…

Preparations For our AuthFlow example, we need a few additional screens. For one we want to allow the user to both sign in (existing users) and sign up (new users) and in addition to the AppLoading screen (for loading / initialising user data) I’ve added an AppCheck screen where I will…

Last time we added redux to our app. This time we will integrate React Navigation (v5.x at the time of writing), a very flexible and robust navigation/routing solution and the primary recommendation made by the expo team too. With the v5 update, React Navigation got a major overhaul. They split…

As the creator of games, it is often hard to see or judge if the core idea is fun to play and within the realms of reasonable complexity. Prototypes and playtests will allow you to dodge bullets and maybe even pull the plug before it is too late. Why Prototypes and ‘Proofs of Concept’ (PoCs) matter? I’m coming…

Working in their 9–5 jobs, many people dream about being independent, breaking out of the daily grind or simply being their own boss. While this is not impossible, it is also incredibly hard and depending on good timing and luck of all sorts. Don’t quit your day job just now…

Covid-19 is here to stay (for now at least) and with it, many of us in IT have changed their Modus Operandi. …

Starting today, I’m kicking off my new series of articles about game development topics. …

But they make you think differently about the issues at hand. For a long time, I thought that I did not have the time to write tests or that I’ll simply do it later. It took me a few years to see how my thinking was completely backwards. Let me…