Maciej Synowski
Senior Software Engineer @ Redge Technologies
Self-taught software engineer with 6+ years building React Native apps - and a specialty in the screens most developers avoid: TVs, set-top boxes, and the rest of the living-room hardware that powers streaming platforms. Based in Kraków, he works end to end across mobile, web, and big-screen, where performance, clean architecture, and good UX on underpowered devices are daily constraints rather than buzzwords.
React Native on the Big Screen: Focus, Performance, and the 10-Foot Experience
Almost everyone uses a TV app, yet almost no engineer has built one. Television is its own world — no touch, no cursor, just a remote and ten feet of couch that quietly break the interaction patterns you'd use on mobile. This talk covers building for the living room with React Native: designing for the remote and the 10-foot experience, how react-native-tvos works, how the tvOS and Android TV focus engines behave underneath (including a look at Android's FocusFinder), building your own focus manager and keeping screens like an EPG fast on weak hardware.