Introduction Migrating a TV application across platforms is rarely straightforward. If you have ever built a React Native Android TV application and later heard the question: Different programming languages. Different UI systems. Different focus and navigation models. This is not a simple port, it’s a rewrite. In this blog, I share a practical, production-focused approach […]
Introduction Keeping your app users up-to-date instantly is easier than ever with Stallion, a powerful tool for Over-the-Air (OTA) updates in React Native. Forget waiting for app store approvals; push updates directly to your users with zero friction. 🙌 Why Use Stallion? ✅ Built-in Testing Framework to validate updates before production 🔁 Switch Between App […]
When Google introduced Leanback, it solved a hard problem: building focusable, remote-friendly UIs for Android TV. But Leanback was built on Fragments, Presenters, and XML themes — patterns that don’t scale well in 2025. With Jetpack Compose for TV, we finally get: A declarative focus model. Composable theming instead of XML overrides. Reusable UI that […]
Introduction Nowadays, while watching our favourite OTT applications, we have lots of options to choose from, sure, but at the same time, there are many devices to stream your favourite movie on too! Screens come in every shape and size: phones, foldables, tablets, desktops, and TVs – and your streaming app has to feel native […]
Introduction Creating an awesome app for both iPhone and Android feels like running two marathons with separate teams. There is the iOS team happily working away in Swift and SwiftUI, then there is the Android team doing the same in Kotlin and Compose. They are practically building the same app in two different languages. That’s […]
Introduction Copilot is an AI-driven conversational assistant that enhances developer productivity by delivering contextual support, automating repetitive actions, and offering data insights within workflows. It also provides documentation assistance directly within supported code editors such as VS Code, Android Studio, JetBrains, and Neovim. How GitHub Copilot Works Internally GitHub Copilot is designed to act as an AI-powered coding assistant that […]
Introduction If you’ve ever worked on an OTT application you must have heard such statements being made “The VST must be as little as possible” or “product team is observing spikes in user abandonment in cases where the VST is 2-3 seconds or more”. So, what is this VST and why should it be as […]
If your React Native app suddenly refuses to launch on certain new Android devices — with cryptic messages like: “requires 16KB page size” “failed to map segment from shared object” or even a mysterious native crash before your JS code ever runs …then you’ve run head-first into Android’s 16K page size change. This guide explains […]
Imagine you’re an app developer. You’ve worked hard on a new feature, but just before it’s ready, a bug appears. You have a hard choice: either you delay the launch to fix the bug, or you release the feature with the bug and hope it doesn’t cause problems. This happens because usually, when you release […]
