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Professional React Native

By : Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Book Image

Professional React Native

By: Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Overview of this book

The React Native framework offers a range of powerful features that make it possible to efficiently build high-quality, easy-to-maintain frontend applications across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and the web, helping you save both time and money. And this book is your key to unlocking its capabilities. Professional React Native provides the ultimate coverage of essential concepts, best practices, advanced processes, and tips for everyday developer problems. The book makes it easy to understand how React Native works under the hood using step-by-step explanations and practical examples so you can use this knowledge to develop highly performant apps. As you follow along, you'll learn the difference between React and React Native, navigate the React Native ecosystem, and revisit the basics of JavaScript and TypeScript needed to create a React Native application. What’s more, you’ll work with animations and even control your app with gestures. Finally, you'll be able to structure larger apps and improve developer efficiency through automated processes, testing, and continuous integration. By the end of this React native app development book, you'll have gained the confidence to build high-performance apps for multiple platforms, even on a bigger scale.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
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Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
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Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Handling Gestures in React Native

One of the most important things that makes good apps stand out against bad apps or mobile websites is good gesture handling. While mobile websites only listen to simple clicks in most cases, apps can and should be controlled with different gestures such as short touches, long touches, swipes, pinching to zoom, or touches with multiple fingers. Using these gestures in a very intuitive way is one of the most important things to consider when developing an app.

But it doesn’t stop with just listening to these gestures – you have to give an immediate response to the user so that they can see (and maybe abort) what they are doing. Some gestures need to trigger or control animations and therefore have to play together very well with the animation solutions we learned about in Chapter 6, Working with Animations.

In React Native, there are multiple ways to handle gestures. From simple built-in components to very complex third-party gesture...