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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

Summary


Using UI libraries such as native-base or react-native-elements saves a lot of time and maintenance hassle when we need to build apps, but the results end up having a standard flavor, which is not always desirable in terms of user experience. That's why learning how to manipulate the style of our apps is always a good idea, especially on teams where the design is provided by UX specialists or app designers.

In this chapter, we took a deep look into the folders and files created by React Native's CLI when initializing a project. Moreover, we familiarized ourselves with the developer menu and its debugging functionalities. When building our app we set the focus on the layouts and component styling, but also on how to add and manipulate animations to make our interface more appealing to the user. We took a look at Flexbox layout system and how to stack and center elements in our components. API's such as dimensions were used to retrieve the device width and height to perform positioning...