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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

Setting up the folder structure


Let's initialize a React Native project using React Native's CLI. The project will be named carBooking and will be available for iOS and Android devices:

react-native init --version="0.49.3" carBooking

In this app, there is only one screen so that the folder structure for the code should be very straightforward. Since we will be using external images and fonts, we will organize these resources in two separate folders: img and fonts, both under the root folder:

The images and fonts used to build this app can be downloaded freely from some image and font sock websites. The name of the font we will use is Blair ITC.

We also stored the following images inside the img folder:

  • car.png: A simple drawing of a car to represent the bookable cars on the map.
  • class.png: The silhouette of a car to show inside the class selection button.
  • classBar.png: The bar in which the class selection button will be slid to change the class.
  • loading.png: Our custom spinner. It will be stored...