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React Native Blueprints

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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React Native Blueprints

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

Considering the success of the React framework, Facebook recently introduced a new mobile development framework called React Native. With React Native's game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development, you can build native mobile applications that are much more powerful, interactive, and faster by using JavaScript This project-based guide takes you through eight projects to help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and helps you build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone groceries list app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book covers the entire feature set of React Native, starting from the simplest (layout or navigation libraries) to the most advanced (integration with native code) features. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build professional Android and iOS applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 2. RSS Reader

In this chapter, we will create an app which will be able to fetch, process, and show the user several RSS feeds. RSS is a web feed, which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized and computer-readable format. They are normally used in news websites, news aggregators, forums, and blogs to represent updated content and it fits very well to the mobile world, as we can have all the content from different blogs or newspapers just by entering the feed's URL in one app.

An RSS feed reader will serve as an example on how to fetch external data, store it, and display it to the user, but at the same time, will add a bit of complexity to our state tree; we will need to store and manage lists of feeds, entries, and posts. On top of that, we will introduce MobX as a library to manage all those state models and update our views, based on the user's actions. Therefore, we will introduce the concept of actions and stores, which is widely used in some of the...