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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Ward
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Book Image

React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Daniel 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)

Copying and pasting content

One of the most used features in both desktop and mobile operating systems is the clipboard for copying and pasting content. A common scenario on mobile is filling forms with lengthy text, such as long email addresses or passwords. Instead of typing it with a few typos, it would be easier to just open your contacts application and copy the email from there and paste it into your TextInput field.

This recipe will show a basic example on both Android and iOS of how we can copy and paste text inside our React Native application. In our sample app, we will have both a static Text view and a TextInput field that you can use to copy its contents to the clipboard. Also, there will be a button that outputs the contents of the clipboard to the view.

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