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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)

Logging in with Facebook

Facebook is the largest social media platform in existence, with well over 1 billion users worldwide. This means that there's a good chance that your users will have a Facebook account. Your app can register and link with their account, allowing you to use their Facebook credentials as a login for your app. Depending on the requested permissions, this will also allow you to access data such as user information, and pictures, and even give you the ability to access shared content. You can read more about the available permission options from the Facebook docs at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions#reference-public_profile.

In this recipe, we will cover a basic method for logging into Facebook via an app to get a session token. We'll then use that token to access the basic /me endpoint provided by Facebook's Graph...