Kadi Kraman

Kadi Kraman

@kadi.bsky.social

Developer at Expo • prev. Director of Engineering, Mobile Services at Formidable • React Native • GraphQL • 🇪🇪 • 🇬🇧

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Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Using transcription is awesome, but this is now a frequent experience, since we both work from home 🙈 Husband: "Sorry, what did you say?" Me: "Not you, I'm talking to Claude" 🙃

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Before you hand your agent the keys to the kingdom, it's more important than ever to make sure you're comfortable with the doors these keys may open 🤖🔐💨

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Expo
@expo.dev

🥳 Observe is now generally available! React Native startup and per-screen performance from real devices, with every build and OTA update marked on the chart. Now you can see how your app actually feels to your users. Details in today's blog from @kadi.bsky.social: try.expo.dev/observe-ga-b...

try.expo.devIntroducing Observe: Performance monitoring for Expo apps, now generally available — Expo blogObserve is generally available. Startup and per-screen performance for React Native, measured on real devices, tied to every build and update.
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

We can build apps faster than ever. The bottleneck now is the last mile: getting through app review. I put together a cheat sheet of how long it actually takes to publish to the App Store and Google Play based on what I've seen. Does it match your experience?

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Come to Chain React! The ultimate stateside React Native conference 👌

Infinite Red@infinite.red

Coming to Chain React: How is your app actually doing in production? ⚡ Shipped a release and spent 24 hours wondering if you improved the experience or made it worse? @kadi.bsky.social explores the gap between the app you built and the app users experience. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/kad...

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

The danger in AI-assisted coding is confident blindness. The best way to help students, users and developers who building with AI is to convert more of their "unknown unknowns" to "knowns unknowns". Only once you know there's a problem can begin solving it

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Expo
@expo.dev

iOS builds in SDK 56 are faster out of the box. Expo modules now ship as precompiled XCFrameworks, so they link instead of compiling from source on every build. No config, no migration steps. Full nerd sniping eng blog from @chrfalch.bsky.social right here: try.expo.dev/precompiled-...

try.expo.devFaster iOS Builds with Precompiled XCFrameworksStarting with SDK 56, Expo packages on iOS ship as prebuilt XCFrameworks, so clean iOS builds skip compiling 70+ packages from source.
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Series B baby! Time to start cooking 🧑‍🍳

Expo@expo.dev

🥳 We raised some money. Expo is the best it's ever been, and this round of funding will help us get a lot better. With this money we can go faster on the things that matter: faster builds, smoother native integrations, and better e-2-e DX. Charlie wrote about what's next: expo.dev/blog/what-ex...

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Reminder: the APK you build for testing is NOT the actual app size 🔹 Debug APK: 95MB 🔹 AAB: 68 MB 🔹 Actual download: 24MB Your users aren't downloading 95 MB: APKs bundle resources for every device config. AAB lets Google Play deliver only what the user's device actually needs

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Strapi
@strapijs.bsky.social

Join us for a Live chat with @kadi.bsky.social (Engineering Manager, @expo.dev ) on Building Developer-First Mobile Products! 📅 Wednesday, Jan 21 ⏰ 8:00–9:00 AM PST 📍 Google Meet luma.com/b29olgkg

luma.comFrom Idea to App: Building Developer-First Mobile Products with Kadi Kraman (Expo) · LumaBuilding mobile apps used to mean double the work: separate codebases, tools, and teams for iOS and Android. With React Native, you build once and ship…
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

A fun graphQL hack I learned from this: you can change an Enum field to a String as a non-breaking change by deleting the Enum and replacing it with a Scalar of the same name!

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

"I'm new to React Native / Expo Router - how should I structure my codebase?" It's a question that comes up quite a bit, and this is an attempt at providing some very concrete suggestions. Already using Router? I'd love to know if there's anything you'd do differently, and why 📝

Expo@expo.dev

🗂️ New blog from @kadi.bsky.social: Folder structure best practices for Expo apps. Keep your project organized with: ♢ /src for clarity ♢ Components & screens in the right place ♢ API & server code separated ♢ Platform-specific extensions Read the guide for all her advice: expo.dev/blog/expo-ap...

expo.devHow to organize Expo app folder structure for clarity and scalabilityOrganize your Expo Router project with proven folder structures for components, screens, API routes, and more to scale React Native apps.
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Check out our new homepage! We also have cool new landing pages to demonstrate how various builders - enterprise, ecom, startups, finserv, crypto, solo devs - benefit from building with Expo.

Expo@expo.dev

The new 𝝠 Expo home page is live: expo.dev We were overdue for a new home that tells the story of what Expo has become: Everything you need to build apps. We added more pages to explain how Expo serves different stages of business growth across different industries. We'll 🧵 some of those below ↓

expo.devExpoExpo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

New @expo.dev example: graphQL server and client with ✨automatic type generation✨! 🧘‍♀️ GraphQL Yoga - server 💜 URQL - client 🎉 gql.tada - type generation ☁️ EAS Hosting - for API & web deployments

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Holy crap, I guess the whole "if you don't ask, you don't get" is real! Apple couldn't fix my 3-year-old out-of-warranty Studio Display so in the end they replaced it. For free! It feels like Christmas.

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Say hello to auth flows without redirects! 💜

Expo@expo.dev

🆕 Expo Router’s new protected routes offer a more declarative way to manage access in your navigation structure. With protected routes you can: ♢ Define auth flows clearly and predictably ♢ Avoid imperative redirects ♢ Easily control nested routes and modals Blog/video from @kadi.bsky.social ↓

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Joshua Yoes
@joshuayoes.com

Know a React Native dev (~2 yrs experience) looking for a new job? A small but growing team at a mature startup in the pet health space is hiring — remote on EST, looking for someone who is excited to both teach & learn from teammates. If you think you are a good fit, send a DM.

Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

React Native & Expo conf of the year coming up soon! 🔥

Software Mansion @swmansion.com

Last year's attendees said meeting the community and great presentations were the best parts of #appjsconf. We promise you, we'll deliver both this year as well! 🤞 🎤 Check out some of the speakers, and don't wait up too long – there are only 3 weeks left!

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Samuel
@samuel.fm

huge shoutout to @zoontek.me - his work dragging the @reactnative.dev ecosystem kicking and screaming to support modern Android has been incredible. finally merged this PR that he kindly opened for us - a rare PR that deletes/simplifies a bunch of gnarly code and fixes a ton of bugs all at once 🎉

github.comEdge to edge support by zoontek · Pull Request #7497 · bluesky-social/social-appHi folks! 👋 This PR adds support for edge-to-edge (enforced on Android 15, when targetting SDK 35+). This will help to add consistency between iOS and Android, as they now will behaves in the same ...
Kadi Kraman
@kadi.bsky.social

Building Expo apps is like... 1. make it work 2. make it pretty 3. make it ⚡️performant ⚡️ Some great tips on how to achieve that last part 👇

Expo@expo.dev

🚀 Performance matters. In this new post, @bacon.bsky.social shares tactical ways to reduce lag and keep your Expo app feeling snappy—from thread blocking to worklets, background tasks, and more. 📖 Read the full guide: expo.dev/blog/best-pr...