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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)

Creating an audio player

Audio players are another common interface built into many applications. Whether your app needs to play audio files stored locally on the device or stream audio from a remote location, Expo's Audio component comes to the rescue.

In this recipe, we'll be building a full-fledged basic audio player, with play/pause, next track, and previous track functionality. For simplicity, we'll be hardcoding the information for the tracks we'll be using, but in a real-world scenario, you'll likely be working with similar objects to what we're defining: an object with a track title, album name, artist name, and a URL to a remote audio file. I've chosen three random live tracks from the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive (https://archive.org/details/etree).

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