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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Ward
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Book Image

React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Daniel Ward

Overview of this book

If you are a developer looking to create mobile applications with maximized code reusability and minimized cost, React Native is what you need. With this practical guide, you’ll be able to build attractive UIs, tackle common problems in mobile development, and achieve improved performance in mobile environments. This book starts by covering the common techniques for React Native customization and helps you set up your development platforms. Over the course of the book, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that help you create, style, and animate your apps with built-in React Native and custom third-party components. You’ll also develop real-world browser-based authentication, build a fully functional audio player, and integrate Google Maps in your apps. This book will help you explore different strategies for working with data, including leveraging the popular Redux library and optimizing your app’s dataflow. You’ll also learn how to write native device functionality for new and existing React Native projects and how app deployment works. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with tips and tricks to write efficient code and have the skills to build full iOS and Android applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Rendering custom iOS view components

While it's very important to leverage the devices processing power in executing code on the native layer in our React Native application, it's equally important to leverage its rendering power to show native UI components. React Native can render any UI component that's an implementation of UIView inside an application. These components can be lists, form fields, tables, graphics, and so on.

For this recipe, we'll create a React Native application titled NativeUIComponent.

In this recipe, we'll take a native UIButton and expose it as a React Native view component. You'll be able to set the button label and attach a handler for when it's pressed.

How to do it...

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