Claude Code · Expo & React Native · Ship to both stores

From Idea to App Store with Claude Code

Build and ship real mobile apps with Claude Code. The mental model you need, from idea to deployment. No coding required.

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About

AI has changed the way software is built. This book gives you the mental models and development lifecycle fundamentals you need to build, deploy, and maintain a mobile app without writing a single line of code.

By the end, you'll understand the full lifecycle of a mobile app and how to guide Claude Code to bring your ideas to life.

What's included

  • High quality EPUB and PDF downloads
  • Free lifetime updates to the book
  • The mental model behind every successful app
  • A proven workflow for planning, prompting, and shipping with Claude Code
  • A Skills Pack that turns Claude into your senior developer
  • No filler. Just the fastest path from idea to App Store.

About me

I help developers and aspiring builders go from “just learning” to shipping something real and earning their first dollar from it.

Most people stay stuck following tutorials or chasing big, unrealistic wins. I focus on what actually changes everything: building a real product, getting it in front of people, and proving to yourself that you can create value from scratch.

Because once you make that first dollar, your mindset shifts. You stop depending only on jobs or ideas, and start seeing what's actually possible for you.

Chapters

  1. 1 · Introduction

    • . Who this is for
    • . What you will build by the end
    • . How to use this book

  2. 2 · The mental model

    • . How mobile apps are built
    • . The cross-platform problem
    • . React Native
    • . Expo
    • . Why I'm teaching this
    • . Think like a director
    • . How to think in components and abstractions (the Figma analogy)
    • . Don't be afraid to start over: explore, extract, build
    • . Save your experiments and reference them

  3. 3 · Setup

    • . Installing Claude Code
    • . Setting up Expo and your project structure
    • . Your first prompt: a working screen in minutes

  4. 4 · Plan before you build

    • . Break your idea into small, shippable features
    • . Invest in the foundation first (data model, architecture, core features)
    • . UI can always change; foundations are permanent
    • . The development cycle: plan, build, iterate

  5. 5 · Prompting effectively

    • . Anatomy of a good prompt
    • . Providing high-quality context
    • . How to recover from bad output
    • . Bad prompt vs good prompt

  6. 6 · Save your progress

    • . Never lose your work, never break your project
    • . Git as your safety net (Claude handles it)
    • . Adding features cleanly and incrementally

  7. 7 · Skills pack

    • . What skills are and how to install them
    • . commit
    • . debug
    • . new-screen
    • . deploy
    • . explain-code
    • . How to tweak a skill for your project

  8. 8 · Deploy

    • . Preparing your app for production
    • . TestFlight (iOS) step by step
    • . Google Play internal testing (Android) step by step

  9. 9 · What's next

    • . Go deeper with the React Native course
    • . Pro membership: real-world codebases as context
    • . Platano: ship a revenue-ready app this weekend

  10. 10 · Appendix

    • . Prompt cheat sheet
    • . Skills installation reference
    • . Links

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