This page lists the articles I have written over the years. Like many developers, I love to write a tutorial to help people learn a new technology. I also enjoy a good essay about the philosophy of software development, and to muse about our industry in general. Unfortunately, we live in interesting times. We have much to discuss.
October 2026
In Part One of the series, we used React Native’s Turbo Modules to wire a basic function on the JSI. We were able to define a native function that could be called from JavaScript. In Part Two, I will show you how to call methods on Objective-C and Java classes.
( React Native Android iOS Java )
October 2026
In the previous entry, I showed you how to use the bare JSI to write a native iOS module for React Native. In this article, I will show you the same for Android. Once completed, you will know the basics of writing bare-metal React Native libraries using JSI…
( React Native iOS )
July 2026
About a year ago, I begged my boss to move me into the mobile development team. At work, we produce and maintain several React Native apps. Having been bored of backend development, I felt it was time to upskill. In the time since, I have learnt a lot…