Andrew Jack
React Native Developer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Jack is a React Native and Android developer with 11 years of professional experience, currently building mobile experiences at Checkatrade after leading mobile at DRIVETRIBE. He has shipped production Android and React Native apps since 2014 and contributed fixes and upgrades to prominent open-source projects like Facebook’s react-native and Microsoft’s react-native-code-push, focusing on Android stability, ProGuard fixes, and dependency modernisation. Comfortable across Android, iOS and native modules, he pairs hands-on implementation with platform-level problem solving—making hitSlop optional, improving Fresco init, and ensuring safe CodePush updates. A London-based engineer who’s spoken at Londroid and Droidcon, he blends a passion for motoring media products with a track record of preventing subtle runtime crashes and upgrade pain-points.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Brunel University
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Github Skills (19)
react-native10
mobile-development10
android-sdk10
java10
fresco10
javas10
okhttp10
android10
codepush10
proguard10
mobile9
app-framework8
powershell6
android-listview6
iphone-x6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:14 commits, 22 PRs, 213 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the Android implementation of React Native. Their contributions include upgrading dependencies like OkHttp3 and Fresco, addressing issues related to the Android modal, and implementing changes such as modifying the saveToCameraRoll function to utilize the DCIM folder. The user also worked on making the hitSlop properties in React Native optional, addressing crashes, and resolving issues related to ProGuard and Fresco initialization.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
microsoft/react-native-code-push
May 2017 - Sep 2017
React Native module for CodePush
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Android side of the React Native CodePush module. Their work involved removing support for older React Native versions, enhancing stability by preventing crashes related to binary updates and null package metadata checks. They also addressed file deletion issues and fixed ProGuard errors.
reactreact-native-modulecode-pushreact-nativecodepush
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