Studio notes
Field notes from shipping apps and staffing the front line.Our stories - drafted with AI, edited by us.
The product we had was so much work away from being the product we were trying to create. A note on capability, capacity, and the small projects that will see the light of day thanks to recent advancements in agentic AI.
Six concrete things that cost us a weekend on our Expo SDK 55 app: Modal UIWindow isolation, the pointerEvents prop trap, PanResponder swallowing child taps, and when to reach for a Portal-based custom sheet instead of @gorhom/bottom-sheet.
Six months of stable Liquid Glass on expo-glass-effect, broken by the SDK 55 upgrade. Three weeks of remediation, two parallel glass paths, a pile of workarounds – three retired by the latest Expo patches, two still biting in production, and a wider question about what a cross-platform Glass primitive could look like.