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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
Book Image

React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

React Native helps web and mobile developers to build cross-platform apps that perform at the same level as any other natively developed app. The range of apps that can be built using this library is huge. From e-commerce to games, React Native is a good fit for any mobile project due to its flexibility and extendable nature. This project-based book consists of four standalone projects. Each project will help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone car booking app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book is ideal for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from the content of Packt's React Native Blueprints by Emilio Rodriguez Martinez.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Overview


One of the main requirements when building an image sharing app is an appealing design. We will follow the design patterns for some of the most popular image sharing apps, adapting those patterns for each platform while trying to reuse as much code as possible taking advantage of React Native's cross-platform capabilities.

Let's first take a look at the user interface in iOS:

The main screen shows a simple header and a list of images, including the user picture, name, and a More icon to share the image. At the bottom, the tabbed navigation displays three icons representing the three main screens: All Images, My Images, and Camera.

Note

All images used for this sample app are free to be used in any form.

When a user presses the More icon for a specific image, the Share menu will be displayed:

This is a standard iOS component. It doesn't make much sense to use it on a simulator, it can be better tested on an actual device.

Let's take a look at the second screen, My Images:

This is a grid...