Liontin (an Indonesian translation of Pendant) is a mobile app that was heavily inspired by the Locket Widget App. Similar to the original app, it allows you to share a widget with your friends that updates whenever you “push” a new pixel art.
This was my first try at using React Native. I chose to use Expo because it gives you a bunch of niceties, kinda like how meta-framework in React web world. One thing that I really appreciate is the live preview on an external devices that doesn’t require you to fiddle around with ADB which is pretty cool.
I chose ConvexDB due to its simplicity and realtime data support. It’s basically a reactive DB. As for auth, I use Clerk because I want something that just works without much tinkering. These tech are all chosen because I want to focus more on the mobile app rather than having to think about managing the backend myself.
Most of the code are written by LLM, maybe close to 80% of it, I just decide the high level architecture and how it looks because LLM really sucks at deciding what’s good and what’s not.
This app still has an issue though, I haven’t figured out how to export React Native app so that it doesn’t became a huge 100MB app. This was usually a trivial thing in Flutter world, but I tried a few things and I ended up with a non working app lol. I may try it again in the future, but for now as long as the app works it’s fine, this was mostly made for personal use.
