React Native: Advanced Concepts (Udemy.com)

I enjoyed the class, but it was somewhat dates and it took me doing a fair amount of research to get things to work with later versions. Stephen is a great instructor. He's pretty good about explaining things although I do think that some of the issues with the notifications could have been mitigated by utilizing the Twilio library...we started it but didn't really use it except for a small segment...It could have been the final module.

Some of the information is incomplete or has changed. In spite of this, the course is great for learning, the instructor is excellent for progressing through the course subject matter. However, there are problems with the api's and usability, some of the packages have changed, some of the facebook login status information is not production ready. The student must research independently to get beyond these problems. In software dev, frustration has to be overcome to keep fixing bugs as they arise, and this is no exception here. As a tool for learning the subject the instructor is great, one of the best.

Really enjoyed learning about Twilio and the preferred One Time Password logins, plus other real world scenarios. Also, it was great to know some of the gotchas of some of the tech involved. The instructor does a great job letting us know when there are areas to keep an eye for specific issues. On a couple of occasions the APIs to some libraries have already changed, but only slightly and it wasn't difficult to pause, go to some docs and figure it out and continue w/ the course's content. Overall I thought it was a pretty awesome course!

This was a very tough course since there were many outside resources that we had to incorporate, particularly google functions, which made it difficult to debug. However, I learned a lot and the teacher keeps things interesting and the tough concepts are explained in detail. As of March 2018, there are a number of changes to the various APIs that were implemented to the React eco system, but all updates are in the Q&A in Udemy and can be figured out by googling.

Another really great course by Stephen, good to take following the first React Native course. It certainly builds on and consolidates your previously acquired knowledge. He also points you towards many different APIs and modules, which I think are good resources, however you need to truly immerse yourself in the content and do a bit of self learning and research as well as try to build something yourself afterwards if you truly want to develop production-ready apps. I certainly am not confident that I will be able to build a production-ready app any time soon (it takes time, not just two courses, be realistic!), but this is certainly a very good step in that direction.

Ah Stephen can't offer enough praise this course was amazing and I really hope to see more like it in the future. I've taken many of his courses and the final project in this one is fantastic. The amount that you have to learn from taking this course, will surprise you. I highly recommend this and any of Stpehen's other courses.

This has been the 4th or 5th course i've taken of Stephen's and I've learned so ridiculously much in every one. One of the most amazing things is when Stephen shows you how he debugs. It's so insanely helpful as most of coding is doing things wrong, not right :l anywho, I highly recommend this and any other course taught by Stephen so very, very, very much!!!

Good explanation of content! Makes feel well prepared for making my own application. Really good and worth it! On minus part a few parts is already outdated due to the nature of everything changing in the React-Native world, but the comments section always had answer so it was no big deal in the end!

Stephen has done a great job on covering React Native tutorials... again. He explained things in a simple way that really benefit users who are in the beginner level of RN. However, I would, and I believe a lot other students do, hope that Stephen can offer a full stack React Native course. A useful real world app, from front-end to back-end. After the basic and advanced course we've taken, we are excited and ready for a full stack development! IT' S THE TIME NOW! In fact, throughout both course, the part which really made us excited is always the last project (manager app & job app) because we feel like we are really creating an app of our own, an app that will make us proud! But just when we are about to learn more, the project ends there. I personally felt very disappointed because I wish there was more afterwards. I really appreciate that Stephen talked about animation system , and one-time-authentication, but it would be even better if we can learn about the core functionality of an app. (e.g, search field in the nav bar, side bar, image capture and uploading to firebase, chatbox, rating system, fb-like notification, instant-comment, etc) That is really, really going to be a lot of fun! If Stephen could offer a course on cloning an app, like airbnb, I am sure everyone who took this course will buy it without doubts!

The only course I've found so far doing a proper job of explaining animations. Also a good tutorial on Expo and on using Redux with React-Native. Contains lots of useful information and gotchas that you're usually discovering in months of working with a specific technology. Although Stephen's style is a bit slow paced and repetitive at times (or maybe because of that), I've generally found his courses to be quite comprehensive and at the same time easy to follow; you have plenty of time to type and also understand what you are typing. There are a few minor issues with react-navigation, some methods/options have changed a bit since the course was produced. react-navigation is a fresh library and its API is still evolving, but you'll find the necessary adjustments in Q&A. All in all, the course is well worth the money and time invested.