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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)

Optimizing the performance of custom UI components

While building your React Native app, it's a safe bet that you will be creating custom UI components. These components can either be compositions of several other components or a component that builds on top of an existing component and adds more functionality. With added functionality, complexity also increases. This increased complexity leads to more operations, and in turn, the potential for slowdowns. Fortunately, there are some ways to make sure that our custom UI components are performing the best they can. This recipe shows several techniques for getting the most out of our components.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have a React Native app with some...