Topic
AI
· 12 min read
Making a React Native app agent-ready: what happens when Siri calls and your JavaScript isn't running
I exposed a React Native app's actions to Siri with expo-app-intents, measured three designs with the app closed, and hit a SQLite bug that silently lost data. Plus what Android's AppFunctions will need.
· 7 min read
Giving your coding agent eyes on a React Native app: Argent vs agent-device, measured
Two simulator tools for coding agents, each given alone to Claude Code on the same React Native 0.87 app with three planted bugs. Both solved every task. They differed in cost, context and setup.
· 9 min read
On-device AI in React Native, late 2026: one AI SDK call, two engines, measured
Apple Foundation Models and ExecuTorch behind the same AI SDK call in a React Native 0.87 app: what it took to build, how fast each was, and how often a 1B model returns valid JSON.