I Decompiled the White House's New App
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The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
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What Is This App?

It’s a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called “forty-five-press” according to the Expo config.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Even if the effect didn’t lag, there’s almost no added benefit to it. The title is cut off, and the description is even worse.

    If the author wanted to, they could have done something like this with no scripts, minimum effort, and probably zero lag.

    (If OP’s website chugged for you, I’m curious whether this demo is seamlessly smooth. It is for me.)