AJAKSHAY JADHAVinakshayjadhav.hashnode.dev·Mar 14 · 8 min readI Tried Running FunctionGemma On-Device in a React Native App. Here's How It Went.It started with a tweet. Google Devs posted a demo of FunctionGemma running a game, and I watched this tiny model parse natural language into structured function calls in real time. My immediate thoug00
AJAKSHAY JADHAVinakshayjadhav.hashnode.dev·Feb 7 · 32 min readImplementing Android 16 Progress-Centric Notifications in React Native (Expo)With Android 16, Google is introducing Progress-Centric Notifications a new system for building real-time, glanceable updates that stay pinned in the notification shade, on the lock screen, and even in the system status bar. Conceptually, they’re And...00
AJAKSHAY JADHAVinakshayjadhav.hashnode.dev·Nov 14, 2025 · 19 min readCreate Game Apps Using Godot Engine in Expo with react-native-godotIntroduction With the release of @borndotcom/react-native-godot, React Native developers can now embed a full Godot Engine runtime directly inside their apps. This unlocks a new class of hybrid apps: React Native UI on top, Godot rendering underneath...00
AJAKSHAY JADHAVinakshayjadhav.hashnode.dev·Apr 19, 2025 · 9 min readCreating the Gooey Blob Effect in React Native using SkiaEver seen those playful, blobby animations on websites where circles stick, stretch, and melt into each other like jelly? It’s like watching digital slime. That visual magic is called the gooey effect. In the web world, this effect is often created w...00
AJAKSHAY JADHAVinakshayjadhav.hashnode.dev·Apr 8, 2025 · 12 min readHow to access react-native-mmkv in a iOS Widget (React Native Expo)In one of my recent React Native Expo apps, I was using react-native-mmkv, a library that allows you to easily use MMKV (efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat) inside your React Native apps, as the persist layer for ...00
