I made the switch from React Native back to Java and I couldn’t be happier!

Ever since the last update to React Native, I’ve been unable to get started building apps. In fact, most of my time working with React Native has been spent troubleshooting and researching solutions.

No more!

In one day, I managed to build the entire interface for the home screen of my solution to the Salesman’s Travel coding kata! (click below)

While styling the TextViews in the activity_main.xml file, I found alphabetizing xml elements made them easier to learn. It doesn’t affect how the Views render, but it gives me a better vision of how to design apps.

The moral of the story is, tools make and toys break. Next step, learning to display the list of addresses that will be used in this example.

-CF