Ravi S. Iyer: Software Development

Last updated on 1 Feb. 2026 Project Status To know current project status, please visit: Gita web app with many English, Hindi and Sanskrit translations and commentaries: Project status in non-technical language For technical readers:  Status of Project: Development of Gita Static JSON files API hosted on GitHub Pages and modifying Gita frontend app to use it . How to Sponsor If there are persons who are interesed in sponsoring remaining chunks of around 20 man-hours work each, for this project (done by me at deeply discounted rates), they may please mail me at riyer02@gmail.com. But dear reader, please don't feel obliged in any way to sponsor such work. Sponsor(s) should contact me in this regard, only if they are really interested in patronizing such service to society type work. I am doing this project in a spiritually detached way (nishkama bhava). So if no sponsor(s) are interested in sponsoring remaining chunks of work - no problem at all. The important thing for me is to mak...

Quick Info This seems to be the authoritative Expo docs page related to creating native projects: Continuous Native Generation (CNG), https://docs.expo.dev/workflow/continuous-native-generation/  , sub-titled: Learn about managing your native projects with Continuous Native Generation (CNG) and Prebuild. It does not use the terms of managed and bare workflows nor does it mention eject.  As per ChatGPT (CG): The terms: Managed workflow , Bare workflow and Eject / ExpoKit  are now historical vocabulary. They still appear in blog posts, StackOverflow answers, and older GitHub issues, but they are no longer the primary conceptual framework used by Expo itself. ---------- The two main React Native and Expo apps development experience that I have are: Timestamp Tracker (TT) which runs in Expo Go. I have also built debug and release APKs, and recently, release AAB file. Yoga Studio LMS (SG-Edu-App) which does not run in Expo Go. I have built debug and release APKs. I was quite ...

Quick Info Note: In this post, “phrase search” refers to quoted multi-word searches (for example, "iOS build" ). In Blogger dashboard for this blog, a few days back when I searched for: "iOS build", I was shown 5 posts and each post had the "iOS build" phrase! So looks like for searches with spaces within search string: 1) Blogger dashboard is best at search results and also in how it presents the results as a list of posts (without pagination at least for ten or twenty results but perhaps for higher number of results too (have not checked that)). But results are ordered in reverse chronological order, I think. Search ranking does not come into play. 2) Blog UI search: Search ranking comes into play. But shows very few posts per page (2 or 3) and only snippets for each post. Initial (top ranked) posts had "iOS build" phrase. Later (lower ranked) posts did not have the phrase but had iOS word in them (did not check whether they also had build word...