7 posts tagged with "Growth"

What Is “Vibe Coding”?​

Vibe coding is a new, informal term for writing software by talking to AI tools instead of typing code. In practice, a person simply describes a task in plain English (or another natural language) to a large language model (LLM) that’s been trained to write code. The AI then generates working source code to solve the task. As one summary explains, it shifts “the programmer’s role from manual coding to guiding, testing, and refining the AI-generated source code”.

Localization means adapting your app’s translations to suit your customers’ specific country or region. Supporting multiple languages (including RTL) is a critical feature for any successful mobile app, since it opens up the user base to a much larger pool of people, and also improves the user experience tremendously. Localization in React Native could be a little tricky, which is why we are writing this tutorial. Let’s see how you can localize your React Native apps elegantly.

In this article we are going to take a look at how to compress videos in React Native as well as general media, such as photos or audio content. It’s standard practice to compress the full size of raw images/videos before they are sent to be stored on the server in order to conserve storage cost, but most importantly to improve the user experience by an order of magnitude.

Mobile apps must be snappy and playful. To fall in love with your mobile app, users need to perceive it as fast, responsive and bug-free. Perceived performance measures how fast a user thinks your mobile app is. Fortunately, there are several standard techniques that we can apply to our UI/UX, in order to improve the perceived performance of mobile apps significantly.

Entrepreneurs, designers, and developers tend to separate Growth aspects from the mobile app development process. They are usually perceived as completely different focus areas. After all, what does marketing have to do with app development, right? Because of this, many startups fall into the trap of building onboarding screens that are so beautiful it blows the user’s mind, but they are not optimized for Growth, hence don’t convert well.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to send push notifications to React Native using Firebase. We are going to walk you through all the Firebase setup steps as well as the React Native code needed for sending notifications. Push notifications are an important user retention lever, so React Native developers run into implementing them with every single app they build.

Consider having to compete with only hundreds of apps in the App Store. It sounds like every app developer dream! Launching an app isn’t easy, but it’s probably not as hard as you think either. We’ve gathered these steps that you can follow in order to launch your app on your iOS and Android devices. Let’s see how to launch your mobile app correctly, in order to maximize your chances of success.