Oliver Lopez
@oliverloops.bsky.social
Software Engineer/React Native Dev — part-time OSS contributor, wrapping native Android views for fun, building apps for humans 👨💻🪴
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
React Native ExecuTorch 0.5.0 is here & it brings:
✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS
✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer
✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas
✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding
Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️
✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS
✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer
✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas
✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding
Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️
August 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
React Native ExecuTorch 0.5.0 is here & it brings:
✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS
✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer
✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas
✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding
Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️
✅ Up to 2x faster Whisper performance on iOS
✅ C++ JSI bindings for zero-copy data transfer
✅ LLM structured output using Zod schemas
✅ CLIP model for image→text understanding
Go ahead and ship that fully local AI feature you’ve been waiting for ⚛️
Cooking my first commercial app ever 👨💻🔥
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Cooking my first commercial app ever 👨💻🔥
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
Want to build a mobile game with Expo? We recommend following the best practices from Daehyeon Mun laid out in the blog post below. He built NeonCity with Expo, Reanimated, and NativeWind.
Lots of good info in here about UI, gesture detection, sprite image technique...
expo.dev/blog/mobile-...
Lots of good info in here about UI, gesture detection, sprite image technique...
expo.dev/blog/mobile-...
Building NeonCity: A fast-paced mobile game made with React Native, Reanimated, and Expo
Learn how NeonCity was built with React Native, Expo, NativeWind, and Reanimated—featuring sprite sheets, gesture detection, and EAS Build for deployment.
expo.dev
June 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Want to build a mobile game with Expo? We recommend following the best practices from Daehyeon Mun laid out in the blog post below. He built NeonCity with Expo, Reanimated, and NativeWind.
Lots of good info in here about UI, gesture detection, sprite image technique...
expo.dev/blog/mobile-...
Lots of good info in here about UI, gesture detection, sprite image technique...
expo.dev/blog/mobile-...
Anyone in Kraków who wanna hang out around today?
May 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Anyone in Kraków who wanna hang out around today?
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
⏰ Just 6 weeks left until App.js Conf 2025! If you're into React Native, check out the thread to see why it’s the event you really don’t want to miss 👇🏻
April 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
⏰ Just 6 weeks left until App.js Conf 2025! If you're into React Native, check out the thread to see why it’s the event you really don’t want to miss 👇🏻
Anyone available one day before App.js conf to hang out? 🤙
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Anyone available one day before App.js conf to hang out? 🤙
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
I'm trying to make the fastest Mac app you've ever seen. So of course I'm building it in javascript with React Native.
It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions.
🔌 Local first
🛜 Works offline
⚡️ Instant interactions
💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram
👐 Open source
It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions.
🔌 Local first
🛜 Works offline
⚡️ Instant interactions
💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram
👐 Open source
May 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm trying to make the fastest Mac app you've ever seen. So of course I'm building it in javascript with React Native.
It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions.
🔌 Local first
🛜 Works offline
⚡️ Instant interactions
💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram
👐 Open source
It'll be an app for managing Github issues, PRs, discussions.
🔌 Local first
🛜 Works offline
⚡️ Instant interactions
💾 App is 50mb, 100mb ram
👐 Open source
This release is huge! 👏👏
🚀 Expo SDK 53 (Beta) is here and it’s packed!
In this 17-minute video, I walk you through the biggest updates
👉 Create a new app with SDK 53
🧠 React 19
📱 New Expo UI
💨 Faster builds with EAS caching
🗺️ Expo Maps
🧪 One-command deploy with npx testflight
🧩 SQLite now works on web
youtu.be/uXi503z8p-g
In this 17-minute video, I walk you through the biggest updates
👉 Create a new app with SDK 53
🧠 React 19
📱 New Expo UI
💨 Faster builds with EAS caching
🗺️ Expo Maps
🧪 One-command deploy with npx testflight
🧩 SQLite now works on web
youtu.be/uXi503z8p-g
April 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This release is huge! 👏👏
Have you read @callstack.com React Native Optimization guide?
Amazing content, insights and techniques for your apps 🔥🚀
Get it, it’s free 👉 www.callstack.com/ebook/the-ul...
Amazing content, insights and techniques for your apps 🔥🚀
Get it, it’s free 👉 www.callstack.com/ebook/the-ul...
April 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Have you read @callstack.com React Native Optimization guide?
Amazing content, insights and techniques for your apps 🔥🚀
Get it, it’s free 👉 www.callstack.com/ebook/the-ul...
Amazing content, insights and techniques for your apps 🔥🚀
Get it, it’s free 👉 www.callstack.com/ebook/the-ul...
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
"If you're a startup or Fortune 100, React Native is the go-to way to build a scalable app that shares code across platforms." – @gantlaborde.com
Here's why Lynx isn't changing that equation. 👇
shift.infinite.red/react-native...
Here's why Lynx isn't changing that equation. 👇
shift.infinite.red/react-native...
React Native vs Lynx JS
What’s the difference? Why should I care?
shift.infinite.red
March 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"If you're a startup or Fortune 100, React Native is the go-to way to build a scalable app that shares code across platforms." – @gantlaborde.com
Here's why Lynx isn't changing that equation. 👇
shift.infinite.red/react-native...
Here's why Lynx isn't changing that equation. 👇
shift.infinite.red/react-native...
The world needs Expo UI 🫡
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The world needs Expo UI 🫡
I just got the iPhone 16 Pro and I’m all on this beautiful Green Lake case 😍🌲
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I just got the iPhone 16 Pro and I’m all on this beautiful Green Lake case 😍🌲
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
Building APIs with Next.js
Learn about how to build APIs with Next.js.
nextjs.org
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
⚛️ State Of React 2024 - Survey results are out!
2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/
A milestone year for React, with v19.0 marking the beginning of the "3rd epoch"
Great scores for React-Query, Zustand, TanStack Start, Astro, shadcn/ui, React-Aria, Jotai, Radix and many others
2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/
A milestone year for React, with v19.0 marking the beginning of the "3rd epoch"
Great scores for React-Query, Zustand, TanStack Start, Astro, shadcn/ui, React-Aria, Jotai, Radix and many others
February 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
⚛️ State Of React 2024 - Survey results are out!
2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/
A milestone year for React, with v19.0 marking the beginning of the "3rd epoch"
Great scores for React-Query, Zustand, TanStack Start, Astro, shadcn/ui, React-Aria, Jotai, Radix and many others
2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/
A milestone year for React, with v19.0 marking the beginning of the "3rd epoch"
Great scores for React-Query, Zustand, TanStack Start, Astro, shadcn/ui, React-Aria, Jotai, Radix and many others
Let's make Android development in React Native great and fun again.
This is the official native Material 3 carousel composable rendered using @expo native views.
The result is a simple-to-use React component with all native behavior (gestures and transitions) built in.
This is the official native Material 3 carousel composable rendered using @expo native views.
The result is a simple-to-use React component with all native behavior (gestures and transitions) built in.
February 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Let's make Android development in React Native great and fun again.
This is the official native Material 3 carousel composable rendered using @expo native views.
The result is a simple-to-use React component with all native behavior (gestures and transitions) built in.
This is the official native Material 3 carousel composable rendered using @expo native views.
The result is a simple-to-use React component with all native behavior (gestures and transitions) built in.
Reposted by Oliver Lopez
The 5th edition of our React Native & @expo.dev- focused conf is coming closer and we're now accepting talks proposals! 🚨
If you have an interesting perspective on RN hot topics or you've come up with a solution for a common pain point & want to share your insights -> apply at appjs.co
If you have an interesting perspective on RN hot topics or you've come up with a solution for a common pain point & want to share your insights -> apply at appjs.co
January 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I want to build an agentic app 👉👈
January 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I want to build an agentic app 👉👈
BlueSky’s app quality it’s insane and just show how capable React Native and Expo are today 🦋
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
BlueSky’s app quality it’s insane and just show how capable React Native and Expo are today 🦋
2025 will be a huge year for React Native ecosystem 🔥
January 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
2025 will be a huge year for React Native ecosystem 🔥
