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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


The main challenge of this app was accessing a native module written in Objective-C from our JavaScript code. Fortunately, React Native has the means to ease the communication between those two worlds with relatively few lines of code.

We focused only on iOS for this app, but the reality is that building the same app in Android should follow a very similar process taking into account that we should build our native module in Java instead of Objective-C. Besides, we learned the process of including an icon and a launch screen in our app to complete the development cycle prior to release.

As we only had one screen in our app, we opted not to use any routing or state management libraries, which enabled us to keep the focus on the communication between our JavaScript code and the native module we implemented.

We also created some animations to emulate an analog tuner which gives an attractive and fun look to this app.

Besides the icon and the launch screen, we also took care of another visual...