nunogois / game-search-expo

Mobile app that lets you search for games. Using IGDB and built with Expo (React Native)

Nuno Góis - Full-Stack Developer

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I am a creative and driven 34 year old Full-Stack Developer from Portugal, with over 13 years of professional experience. Passionate for the job, love putting skills to the test, facing challenges in a creative and perfectionist way. Experienced with every step of developing and delivering cross-platform, modern and responsive software, providing end-users the best experience I can. Worked with several different technologies across the stack, always willing to learn more and improve skills. I excel at taking a focused, creative, out-of-the-box approach to challenges, leveraging my adaptability, hard-working nature, and quick-learning abilities to deliver striking results.

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game-search-expo's Issues

How did you create a similar games infinite loop?

Hello!

I was wondering how you were able to create a infinite loop through the similar_games section in your Detail Screen? For example, I am seeing in your short clip you clicked on a game and within that it has a list of similar games. Once you clicked on one of them it brought you to the same screen, but with that game's information showing.

I have tried using several methods like navigation.push() which suppose to push the data to the detail screen and show the new data. Doing so will work but it won't go any deeper or further if I were to click another similar_games within that game. It just gives me an error saying it's undefined.

Here's a short video example of what I am talking:

Vid.mp4

As you can see here, I can't get the image cover to display because it would say the image_id is undefined and I am not sure why, when it should be under the same as /games api if were to use item.cover.image_id Another thing about this is that, you can see the name and the similar games disappears when I go to the third screen (final screen point).

How can I essentially keep all data consistent when the user navigates each game through similar_games?

Please let me know what you think and if this topic isn't relatable then please close this post. I just wanted to ask about this since you have it working on your project and I am confused how to get this to work.

Error message/Retrieving game image

Hello, sorry to bother you again :(

I have some question I want to ask you,

1.) I wanted to play around with your app and I have been getting an error message when I launch the app from expo. Here's an image link of what the error is showing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qxXay-IjTiO8Qb-oNX53cr1bdeTgZSTX/view?usp=sharing

2.) So good news I was able to pull the list of games from IGDB but the issue I am only having so far is retrieving the game images. I am seeing in line 16 at

game-search-expo/components/GameItem.tsx

Line 16 in c480a33

<Image style={styles.image} source={{ uri: props.game.image }} />

You only specify game.image which I am confused as to how you would use that to get the cover art? I am seeing on their IGDB website https://api-docs.igdb.com/#cover you would have to call image_id or url to get the image I am guessing. But when I try to invoke one of those two fields nothing happens or displays. However, I am able to display that name of the game titles, but I am confused as to how I can display the list of game images. Do you know how I can make this work?

Help getting games from IGDB

Hello,

I am trying to find an example of your code that shows how you were able to get the list of games. I want to do something like this with my app, but I am stuck on getting the games to show on my app.

I don't know if you have created a twitch account to gain access to the list of games and use a token for it, but I am just really confused on how to use this api. Do you have an example code that shows like, Coming soon and all it's games being called?

Please let me know if you have some kind of example of code I can see and it would mean so much if you can help. Thank you!!