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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By : Alin Gheorghe
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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By: Alin Gheorghe

Overview of this book

Galio is a free open source React Native framework that enables beginner-level programmers to quickly build cross-platform mobile apps by leveraging its beautifully designed ready-made components. This book helps you to learn about React Native app development while building impressive out-of-the-box apps with Galio. Lightning Fast Mobile App Development with Galio takes a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you will begin by exploring the basics of React Native and understanding how Galio works. As you make progress, you'll learn how to initialize and configure a React Native app and get to grips with the basics of React Native development. You'll also discover how packages work and how to install Galio as the main dependency, along with understanding how and why Galio helps you to develop apps with ease. Finally, you'll build three practical and exciting apps using React Native and Galio. By the end of this app development book, you'll have learned how to use Galio to quickly create layouts and set up React Native projects for your personal ideas.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Why React Native?

So, you may be wondering, "Why React Native?". There are so many cross-platform frameworks available out there such as Flutter, Xamarin, and Cordava, to name a few, so we need to understand why React Native is a great choice for mobile application development.

You need to understand that there is no right choice. This is only based on the current context of the market and personal appreciation.

Programming frameworks are like a painter's brush. A painter has multiple brushes, each of them with a different purpose. You need to understand as much as you can about the tool that you're using because the better the painter knows the brush, the better they can paint and bring their vision to life.

You need to learn how to use React Native to develop cross-platform apps quickly and easily. So, let's go a bit more in depth into why React Native is such a great choice for app development.

You only learn it once

First of all, React...