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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)

Including custom fonts

At some point, we are probably going to want to display text with a custom font family. Until now, we've been using the default font, but we can use any other that we like.

Before Expo, the process of adding custom fonts was more difficult, required working with native code, and needed to be implemented differently in iOS and Android. Luckily, through the use of Expo's font helper library, this has become streamlined and simplified.

In this recipe, we will import a few fonts and then display text using each of the imported font families. We will also use different font styles, such as bold and italic.

Getting ready

In order to work on this example we need some fonts. You can use whatever fonts...