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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)

Creating a map app

Using a mobile device is a portable experience, so it's no surprise that maps are a common part of many iOS and Android applications. Your app may need to tell a user where they are, where they're going, or where other users are in real time.

In this recipe, we'll be making a simple app that uses Google Maps on Android, and Apple's Maps app on iOS, to display a map centered on the user's location. We will be using Expo's Location helper library to get the latitude and longitude of the user and will use that data to render the map using Expo's MapView component. MapView is an Expo ready version of the react-native-maps package created by Airbnb, so you can expect the react-native-maps documentation to apply, which can be found at https://github.com/react-community/react-native-maps.

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