I use Chrome on my Android and Mac. For a while I've appreciated the seemingly built-in anti-hijacking measure that always does what I expect on the second Back press. (The first Back may pop up a subscription box for example, but the second will always return me to where I came from).
I actually felt that this was a solved problem, so I'm surprised to see so many people still suffer getting stuck in redirect loops.
And if we're talking Expo, that's only for prebuilds of course; once you've got the native app installed then you can absolutely code and see updates in near real-time on both Android and iOS devices.
Quick plug for https://pistepal.app/ - that's my own contribution to the space. Features location sharing and nav/directions, and priced lower than the competition yet with perhaps a richer / more focussed feature set. Interested to hear feedback and ideas!
Hey Dan, I think you're going to love what I've built.
The next release (a couple of days out) displays the relative altitude for all of your buddies - so you can immediately see who's above or below you.
On the iPhone, that info also lives in a Live Activity on the lock screen so you don't have to take your gloves off to see that essential info! (Android lock screen support will be coming right after).
If you'd like to help test the feature out, I'd really appreciate it - just drop me a message via https://pistepal.app/support and I'll link you up with an annual subscription.
That's a great idea. A lock screen widget could work really well here, showing the relative elevations of your buddies. You'd have to take your phone out - but you wouldn't have to take your gloves off!
https://pistepal.app/ - a ski map app - built at breakneck speed over the last few months. I believe this is the only ski map app that offers turn-by-turn navigation!
Still a little bit rough around the edges but hopefully will be / is in decent enough shape for the start of the ski season (just about happening now..)
Currently figuring out the right balance of free tier & daily trial. Priced at $10/month and therefore significantly undercutting the competition, hopefully this is enough to gain entry into the market. (May need a more generous daily trial though, admittedly 10 minutes is not really enough to actually try it out on the mountain).
Seems ad spend is necessary to get any kind of traction...
The app is definitely still a bit rough around the edges but it was developed in breakneck speed over the last few months - I've probably seen an overall 5x acceleration over pre-agentic development speed.
That's really a non-issue. Anything copyrightable is non-trivial in length and complexity to the point that an LLM is not going to verbatim output that.
I use it all the time, and it has accelerated my output massively.
Now, I don't trust the output - I review everything, and it often goes wrong. You have to know how to use it. But I would never go back. Often it comes up with more elegant solutions than I would have. And when you're working with a new platform, or some unfamiliar library that it already knows, it's an absolute godsend.
I'm also damn proud of my own hand-crafted code, but to avoid LLMs out of principal? That's just luddite.
20+ years of experience across game dev, mobile and web apps, in case you feel it relevant.
Does it though? I've developed in remote VMs before and the advantages are clear, but having a fully containerized development environment is really nice too because you can tear the whole thing down and rebuild at the drop of a hat. You can achieve that with a VM and scripts, but a Dockerfile is very lightweight and standard.
Edit: Unless you literally mean "editing code in a container with vi". In which case yes I'd go for the VM too!
I actually felt that this was a solved problem, so I'm surprised to see so many people still suffer getting stuck in redirect loops.