Available for freelance work· Karachi, Pakistan · UTC+5
I’m Anwer Solangi. Over the last five years I’ve delivered 50+ projects and 100K+ app downloads — a location-based social app, an offline AI document scanner, a restaurant ordering suite, an Islamic inheritance calculator — mostly solo, in React Native and TypeScript, and always through to a live store listing.
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Islamic will & faraid calculator
Write the will. Compute the shares.
A guided Shariah-compliant will builder on top of a 2,000-line pure-TypeScript faraid engine — exact fractions, hajb, awl, radd and the classical special cases across 8 madhabs. Fully offline, in 10 languages with RTL, with a formal PDF export.
8 madhabs · 10 languages · 100% offline
Location-based social
Find and chat with people around you.
GPS-driven discovery and real-time chat. 10K+ installs on Play Store. Built solo in React Native with a Firebase backend and Stripe payments.
10K+ installs · Rated 4.6 on Play Store · iOS + Android
AI document scanner
A private, offline scanner in your pocket.
Auto edge-detection, on-device OCR and one-tap PDF, image & text export — every scan runs entirely on the phone. No cloud, no account. Built in React Native with VisionCamera + OpenCV and Google ML Kit.
On-device OCR · 10 pro filters · 100% offline
Chrome extension
True fullscreen YouTube. No accidents.
Locks YouTube into a distraction-free fullscreen — kills accidental keypresses, hides chrome, remembers your last state. Published on the Chrome Web Store, source on GitHub.
Chrome Web Store · Open source · Free
Restaurant SaaS · QR ordering
Scan the table. Order from the browser.
A three-app restaurant suite on one Firebase backend — customers order by QR with no install, while owners run orders, kitchen and staff live from their phone. Full TypeScript source on CodeCanyon.
3 apps, 1 backend · Live on Play Store · Source on CodeCanyon
Memory game · rebrandable
Flip, match, beat the clock.
A polished memory-match brain trainer — 9 themes, animated backgrounds, a lives system and per-round timers, all offline-first. Sold on CodeCanyon as a script you can rebrand from a single config file.
9 themes · Offline-first · One-file rebrand
Free tools
Alongside client work I build free utilities — an app icon generator, QR code generator, PDF-to-image converter, image compressor, JSON formatter and more. Each one runs in your browser: no sign-up, no uploads, nothing leaves your machine.
Writing
React Native4 min read
The bridge is dead, Expo won, and the New Architecture is just... the architecture now. A working developer's honest read on React Native in 2026 — what got better, what still hurts, and where I'd place my bets.
Read the postReact Native4 min read
Five animated screens I built and recorded this year — gesture-driven onboarding, a flipping card form, a Skia game, a blurred music player and a live delivery map — with the technique behind each one and the reason it runs at full frame rate.
Guides6 min read
The full path from a working Expo build to a live Play Store listing: signing, the AAB, store assets, the privacy policy Google now requires from everyone, the data safety form, and the closed test that catches first-time developers off guard.
Guides7 min read
The complete icon size list for iOS, Android and the web, plus the two rules that decide whether your icon survives being shrunk to 48 pixels: the Android safe zone, and designing for the smallest size first.
About
I started writing React Native because I wanted to ship the kinds of apps I keep on my own home screen. Five years and fifty-plus projects later I’m still here — based in Karachi, working with founders and product teams worldwide on apps that have to feel fast and obvious.
My sweet spot is taking an early-stage idea and walking it through architecture, motion, Firebase wiring, payments and store submission. I’m fluent in the boring parts — CodePush, Fastlane, TestFlight, Play Console — so you don’t have to be.
A note on the name. I’m Anwer Solangi, with an ‘e’ — the React Native developer. Anwar Solangi, with an ‘a’, was a Pakistani television actor (1944–2008). Different person.
Stack
Also: Redux / MobX, Lottie, Push notifications, Async Storage, Styled Components, React Native Paper, Chrome Extension APIs, Xcode, Android Studio, Webpack, Babel, Postman.
Experience
2019 — now
Freelance · remote from Karachi, Pakistan · via Direct clients, Fiverr, CodeCanyon
2018 — now
Self-directed products · via Play Store, Chrome Web Store, GitHub
FAQ
Anwer Solangi is a professional React Native and iOS developer based in Karachi, Pakistan, with 5+ years of experience and 100K+ app downloads. He is NOT the same person as Anwar Solangi (spelled with 'a'), the late Pakistani TV actor (1944–2008).
Anwer Solangi (spelled with 'e') is a React Native developer from Karachi. Anwar Solangi (spelled with 'a') was a Pakistani television actor who lived from 1944 to 2008. They are different people with different professions.
Yes. Anwer Solangi is available for freelance and contract React Native and iOS development for clients in Karachi, across Pakistan, and remotely worldwide. Reach him at anwersolangi.com or me@anwersolangi.com.
Anwer Solangi is based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, and works with clients locally and remotely around the world.
React Native app development, iOS development with Swift, cross-platform mobile app development, browser extension development, and mobile app consultation.
Have an app to build? Tell me about it.
Available for freelance and contract work — new builds, rescues and ongoing product work. I usually reply within a day. How hiring a React Native developer in Karachi works.
