Oli Bates
Oli Bates
Oli is currently a Frontend Engineer & Tech Lead at Cleo working across the mobile (React Native) & web (React) products. He sits within the savings squad whose mission is to help Cleo users build a safety net of savings.
React Summit Remote Edition 2021React Summit Remote Edition 2021
60 min
How to Build an Interactive “Wheel of Fortune” Animation with React Native
Workshop
- Intro - Cleo
&
our mission
- What we want to build, how it fits into our product
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purpose, run through designs
- Getting started with environment set up
&
“hello world”
- Intro to React Native Animation
- Step 1: Spinning the wheel on a button press
- Step 2: Dragging the wheel to give it velocity
- Step 3: Adding friction to the wheel to slow it down
- Step 4 (stretch): Adding haptics for an immersive feel


React Summit Remote Edition 2021React Summit Remote Edition 2021
7 min
Sharing a Codebase with React & React Native: The Holy Grail?
When we started building the Cleo app, we noticed that a lot of functionality, design and types were shared between web (React)
&
mobile (React Native). We investigated whether these could be shared within the codebase too… join me to find out what we discovered.