It is time for a check in. I had just started down the road with an exploration of Xamarin Forms when I received a call by word of mouth to help a company with a small project. A few weeks later with a vacation in the middle I am back on track, only my tooling has gone through a few iterations. I explored react-native via Expo which deploys a shell to the app stores with the ability to update the JavaScript files on demand. This fits well with my agile approach to software development; however, Apple has started rejecting software that uses  this approach inappropriately . I have decided I would avoid the risks of Apple redrawing that line. I was also excited to stumble upon Firebase especially with their recent beta release of Cloud Firestore. Authentication, scalable NoSQL, file storage, and pretty much everything I need to get up and running the server-side of the project. There are also react-native plugins. Unfortunately, most of the services require Google P...