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Mastering React Native

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Mastering React Native

Overview of this book

React Native has completely revolutionized mobile development by empowering JavaScript developers to build world-class mobile apps that run natively on mobile platforms. This book will show you how to apply JavaScript and other front-end skills to build cross-platform React Native applications for iOS and Android using a single codebase. This book will provide you with all the React Native building blocks necessary to become an expert. We’ll give you a brief explanation of the numerous native components and APIs that come bundled with React Native including Images, Views, ListViews, WebViews, and much more. You will learn to utilize form inputs in React Native. You’ll get an overview of Facebook’s Flux data architecture and then apply Redux to manage data with a remote API. You will also learn to animate different parts of your application, as well as routing using React Native’s navigation APIs. By the end of the book, you will be able to build cutting-edge applications using the React Native framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering React Native
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Installing our tools


At this point, we have covered what each of the tools in our tool chain is responsible for doing. So with that out of the way, let's begin installing each of them.

Installing Xcode

The first thing you'll need to do is ensure you have version 7 or later of Xcode installed. However, I recommend you install Xcode 8 as that's what we'll be using throughout this book. If you already have Xcode installed, verify the version by launching the program and then clicking on Xcode | About Xcode. You should see an image similar to the following screenshot:

If you don't have Xcode installed, you'll need to download it from the Apple App Store. To do this, launch the App Store application and search for Xcode using the search bar in the top right corner of the window. Once you find it, click on the Get button and then Install App. You may need to enter your Apple credentials before downloading. The Xcode installer is pretty large, so while we wait on that, you can start downloading the...