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ReactVision - What's New in ViroReact 2.43.0

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5 Things to Consider Before Adding AI Into Your App

Apple's mixed reality headset, a device Morrow is working to support with ViroReact

Morrow Acquires ReactVision and the ViroReact library

Announcing the Next Chapter for AppLaunch

Company Updates

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Are Virtual Reality and Augemented Reality Finally Having Their Moment? A Look at Emerging Trends

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Morrow Launches MarketLaunch as an Open-Source Project

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Securing Your React Native App: Best Practices and Strategies

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How to build an augmented reality (AR) app with Expo and ReactVision (formerly NativeVision)

Eduardo Dorantes

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How to use Asynchronous Modals for cleaner and more flexible code

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Enhancing Your Development Team with Morrow: A Guide to Team Augmentation

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Enhancing Your Tamagui Apps: Media Queries and Animations

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Introducing Quiz Bot - our AI powered quiz generation app

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What's New in Expo SDK 51: New Features and Updates

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Add shapes and textures to 3D animations with React, Expo and ThreeJS

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Building an offline-first app with Expo, Supabase and WatermelonDB: Authentication

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How to improve your React Native 3D animations: camera control with Three.js

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How to set up a secure Supabase project

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What is the Expo Router?

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How to integrate Native Android code into a React Native project for Android

Scott Pritchard

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Morrow's Summary of the State of React Native 2023 Report

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Developer Spotlight - Bruno

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Building an offline-first app with Expo, Supabase and WatermelonDB

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How to integrate Native iOS code into a React Native project for iOS

Scott Pritchard

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Morrow Expands Across the Pond: Opening Doors in Boston

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Using WatermelonDB with React Native Expo SDK 50

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React Native developers, here are the top 5 reasons why you should consider using Expo in 2024

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Developer Spotlight - Kelvin Pompey

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React Native Year in Review 2023 - Key Updates & Highlights

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What’s New in Expo SDK 50: New Features and Updates

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The CTO's Guide to React Native in 2024

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App Development in 2024: Exciting Updates, Trends and What to Expect This Year

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A Guide to Expo’s Environmental Variables (Expo v49)

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Developer Spotlight - Ivan Vlatkovic

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Developer Spotlight - Rafh Pabustan

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Developer Spotlight - Eduardo Dorantes

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Developer Spotlight - Costas Ioannou

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Developer Spotlight - Gray Lacsina

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Keep your Expo SDK updated for project success

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The AI Revolution - How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Process of App Development

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Morrow AI Hackathon 2.0 Summary

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Developer Spotlight - Petko Kuzmanov

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Exploring React Native Bottom Sheet: Implementation, Examples, and Setup

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Expo OTA Updates Not Working? Here's How expo-ota-manager Can Save You Time and Hassle with OTA Updates

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Dev tutorial - Native and Web app development with Tamagui

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Build Marketplaces up to 60% Quicker with MarketLaunch and Swell

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In Defence of Clean Architecture: A Paradigm for Sustainable Software Development

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Conquer the Chaos: A Developer's Guide to Taming Expo’s Environmental Variables

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An introduction to React Native app development

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Morrow's OpenAI Hackathon 2023 Summary

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The best mobile apps for techie parents in 2023

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Avoid 3 key mistakes for a successful marketplace app

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5 ways to build viral marketing into your app design

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Scaling a mobile app team from 1 to 20 people

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5 futureproof revenue models for mobile apps without resorting to ads

Morrow and AppLaunch join forces to redefine app development for 2023

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Creating 3D animations with ThreeJS

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5 practical animations that improve UX

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Setting up an Expo project with ThreeJS JavaScript library

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3 signs your internal dev team needs support on the scale-up journey

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Need to be back in the office? Not if you're a developer

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Failing nicely: what graceful degradation means for your app and its users

React Native will be the most popular web framework in 2024

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The non-techie guide to backend-as-a-service

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Don't expect your app to take off from day one, building a digital product is a marathon not a sprint

How to safeguard quality during post-MVP scaling

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5 Ways Effective Wireframing Can Save You Time And Effort

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How to bring an external dev agency aboard

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7 reasons why React Native is the future of app development

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The risks of building an in-house development team

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5 key features of an effective app store listing

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7 key topics to address before you begin app development

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The 3 ways to use Augmented Reality in marketing and sales

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Three backend platforms that pair well with React Native

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How to put a business case together for an AR app when you can’t calculate ROI

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The non-techie guide to mobile app development methods

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The CTO's Guide to React Native for 2023

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The NFT trend won’t stop with art

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Please, please stop using web dev firms to make apps!

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Your first call with Morrow: How to prepare and what to expect

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How much maintenance does a mobile app need?

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The Morrow guide to hiring and retaining brilliant developers

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Should I bring my app developer to an investor meeting?

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Taking care of mental health at Morrow

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5 ways we use automation to get your app to market faster

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Apple’s App Tracking Transparency - what it means for your business

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E-commerce recurring revenue — here’s why apps rake in more than websites

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How to Fail-Fast in app development in 2021

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Key investments in app development: 5 areas to prioritise

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Weighing up Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) vs React Native?

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Why Flutter development is still in the slow lane

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How to get your marketplace MVP live before the competition

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How we built a remote-first company from 2 to 8+ people