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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ward
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Book Image

React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Ward

Overview of this book

If you are a developer looking to create mobile applications with maximized code reusability and minimized cost, React Native is what you need. With this practical guide, you’ll be able to build attractive UIs, tackle common problems in mobile development, and achieve improved performance in mobile environments. This book starts by covering the common techniques for React Native customization and helps you set up your development platforms. Over the course of the book, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that help you create, style, and animate your apps with built-in React Native and custom third-party components. You’ll also develop real-world browser-based authentication, build a fully functional audio player, and integrate Google Maps in your apps. This book will help you explore different strategies for working with data, including leveraging the popular Redux library and optimizing your app’s dataflow. You’ll also learn how to write native device functionality for new and existing React Native projects and how app deployment works. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with tips and tricks to write efficient code and have the skills to build full iOS and Android applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Planning your app and choosing your workflow

When trying to choose which development workflow best fits your app's needs, here are a few things you should consider:

  • Will I need access to the native portion of the code base?
  • Will I need any third-party packages in my app that are not supported by Expo, that is require running the command react-native link?
  • Will my app need to play audio while it is not in the foreground?
  • Will my app need location services while it is not in the foreground?
  • Am I comfortable working, at least nominally, in Xcode and Android Studio?

In my experience, Expo usually serves as the best starting place. It provides a lot of benefits to the development process, and gives you an escape hatch in the eject process if your app grows beyond the original requirements. I would recommend only starting development with the React Native CLI if you're sure...