Cross-Platform Mobile Story Timeline
A social storytelling / lead-gen platform
Overview
A cross-platform mobile build for a social storytelling platform, built with Expo and React Native to validate the core timeline/story-browsing interaction on iOS, Android, and web from a single codebase.
The Challenge
The product needed a tactile, animated way for users to scrub through time-anchored stories. Before committing to a full app build, the team needed a working build to feel out the timeline interaction on real devices.
What We Built
An Expo application with a custom TimelineSlider component and gesture-driven navigation. The build leans on React Native Reanimated and the gesture handler for smooth, native-feeling scrubbing, with SVG and linear-gradient rendering for the visual timeline. Expo’s tooling provides simultaneous iOS, Android, and web targets from one codebase.
Technologies & Approach
Expo and React Native for write-once/run-everywhere mobile; react-native-reanimated and react-native-gesture-handler for 60fps gesture interactions; react-native-svg and expo-linear-gradient for the timeline visuals; the community slider component as a base for the custom control.
Outcome / Impact
A focused interaction build that proved out the signature timeline-scrubbing experience early, de-risking the UI direction before deeper investment. Captured here as an early-stage product spike.
Capabilities Demonstrated
- Single-codebase mobile delivery across iOS, Android, and web with Expo
- Custom, gesture-driven UI components using Reanimated
- Fast product-validation building for mobile experiences