What is building-native-ui?

A guide to building mobile apps with Expo Router, a system for organizing screens and moving between them. It covers interface styling, native controls, animations, media, storage, tabs, and navigation patterns.

Building app screens, navigation, native tabs, forms, search, animations, camera or media features, local storage, and visual effects.

It provides practical guidance for turning an Expo project into a structured mobile app without having to work out common screen and navigation patterns alone.

building-native-ui — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by ruizrica

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruizrica/agent-pi

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/ruizrica/agent-pi/building-native-ui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,478 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00031	$0.02478
Opus 5	$0.00015	$0.01239
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00496
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00248

Measured 10d ago against content hash dc9c08d2601e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-native-ui scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to building-native-ui — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/building-native-ui/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expo UI Guidelines

References

Consult these resources as needed:

references/
  animations.md          Reanimated: entering, exiting, layout, scroll-driven, gestures
  controls.md            Native iOS: Switch, Slider, SegmentedControl, DateTimePicker, Picker
  form-sheet.md          Form sheets in expo-router: configuration, footers and background interaction. 
  gradients.md           CSS gradients via experimental_backgroundImage (New Arch only)
  icons.md               SF Symbols via expo-image (sf: source), names, animations, weights
  media.md               Camera, audio, video, and file saving
  route-structure.md     Route conventions, dynamic routes, groups, folder organization
  search.md              Search bar with headers, useSearch hook, filtering patterns
  storage.md             SQLite, AsyncStorage, SecureStore
  tabs.md                NativeTabs, migration from JS tabs, iOS 26 features
  toolbar-and-headers.md Stack headers and toolbar buttons, menus, search (iOS only)
  visual-effects.md      Blur (expo-blur) and liquid glass (expo-glass-effect)
  webgpu-three.md        3D graphics, games, GPU visualizations with WebGPU and Three.js
  zoom-transitions.md    Apple Zoom: fluid zoom transitions with Link.AppleZoom (iOS 18+)

Running the App

CRITICAL: Always try Expo Go first before creating custom builds.

Most Expo apps work in Expo Go without any custom native code. Before running npx expo run:ios or npx expo run:android:

Start with Expo Go: Run npx expo start and scan the QR code with Expo Go
Check if features work: Test your app thoroughly in Expo Go
Only create custom builds when required - see below

When Custom Builds Are Required

You need npx expo run:ios/android or eas build ONLY when using:

Local Expo modules (custom native code in modules/)
Apple targets (widgets, app clips, extensions via @bacons/apple-targets)
Third-party native modules not included in Expo Go
Custom native configuration that can't be expressed in app.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 lines

Files

What ships with it

14 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 322 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A dc9c08d2601e

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building-native-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruizrica/agent-pi (266 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,478 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to building-native-ui, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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