Notes on learning stage of developing my own React Native education app using Expo Framework - Part 2

This post is a continuation of: Notes on learning stage of developing my own React Native education app using Expo Framework - Part 1.

Main tutorial used for learning: Simon Grimm: Build Your Own MASTERCLASS clone in React Native, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3D8lNs10c , 4 hrs. 42 mins, Mar. 2025, 

Possibly on 4th or 5th of July 2025

I had started viewing the above video perhaps in April 2025 but then felt I need to get some exposure to React Native and Expo. So I migrated an earlier Dave Gray tutorial CrudApp which IIRC used only React Native, to React Native and Expo. That work is covered in the above post and that was done from 18 Apr (2025) to around 21/22 Apr

Key periods reflected in above post dates:

Phase 1: 18 Apr (2025): Beginning tutorial but switching to Dave Gray app work mentioned above quite quickly. Probably just a day or so of this activity.

Phase 2: 21/22 Apr to 25 Apr. This was followed by a break of around 3 weeks.

Phase 3: 15 May to 24 May

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Now I am restarting the work after another break. That will make it:

Phase 4: 4th or 5th Jul to -

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5 Jul 2025

Was able to run SG lms app on DPC on both web and Android emulator.

Frontend folder: SG-EduApp\lms

Backend folder: SG-EduApp\Ravi-lms-api

[At some point around 19 May 2025, I renamed SG-lms-api folder to Ravi-lms-api and modified its .gitignore to ignore database and image files and thus reduce the .git folder size. info.txt file in SG-EduApp has details.]

I had to check ip address and set in .env file in frontend:

EXPO_PUBLIC_STRAPI_API_URL=http://{ip-addr}:1337

The Android app needed two or three retries but then it came up properly.

Both web and android apps remembered my Google logins properly.

I think now the app on my desktop PC (DPC) is roughly at this point in the video: https://youtu.be/fO3D8lNs10c?t=6499 .

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