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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 guitarTuner and will be exclusively available for iOS:

react-native init --version="0.45.1" guitarTuner

As this is a single-screen app, we won't need a state management library such as Redux or MobX, so, we will use a simple folder structure:

We have three images to support our custom interface:

  • indicator.jpg: The red bar indicating how tuned a string is
  • tuner.jpg: The background in which the indicator will move
  • string.jpg: A representation of a guitar string

Our src/ folder contains two subfolders:

  • components/: This stores the <Strings/> component and the <Tuner/> component
  • utils/: This holds a list of functions and constants which will be used in several parts of our app

Finally, the entry point of our app will be index.ios.js, as we will be building our app exclusively for the iOS platform.

Let's take a look at our package.json to identify what dependencies we will...