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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)

Introduction

One of the most important aspects of developing any application is handling data. This data may come locally from the user, may be served by a remote server that exposes an API, or, as with most business applications, may be some combination of both. You may be wondering what strategies are best for dealing with data, or how to even accomplish simple tasks such as making an HTTP request. Luckily, React Native makes your life that much simpler by providing mechanisms for easily dealing with data from all different sources.

The open source community has taken things a step further and provided some excellent modules that can be used with React Native. In this chapter, we will discuss how to work with data in all aspects, and how it integrates into our React Native applications.