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Playing around with mobile apps. Let's see where this goes. Will document what I am using / seeing as I go.

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

Love the layout technically that the Obytes Starter brings but don’t like that forms and controls all look the same across devices. Which makes iOS not feel like native iOS and Web not like web.

Not sure if a unique style across all platforms is necessarily the best

the greatest about the starter is that it comes with an i18n sample and helpers for it:  <Text tx="literal.here"/> this means it's perfect for large scale apps in multiple languages where you touch text only once! I love that! have never seen it that well laid out in the opensource javascript wild west. Came to love literals when working on Enterprise Systems in an Insurance company

notice the highlighted literals and how seemless they propagate. Adding a new language is just adding a new JSON for all literals + config while using the same text somewhere else including all translations is simply using tx="literalkey" in the Text component

Translations are autocompleted via types + vscode extensions and additionally

We utilize eslint-plugin-i18n-json alongside a customized validation script for i18next. This script helps sort keys, ensures that all resource files are identical and prevents any missing translations.

https://starter.obytes.com/guides/internationalization/

using useTranslation and the recommended VSCode Extension and you even get a live preview of which literal is used :)

Solutions to "the UI problem"

1) read the Obytes docs and see how easy it is to adjust and roll your own. The layout is well made

2) Use NativeWindUI or gluestack-ui

3) bring your own and develop your own system from scratch

honorable mention: animatereactnative.com