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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)

Configuring your React Native environment

There are two things that we need to know about: Expo and the React Native CLI.

Both of them are easy to install and we'll go over both of them to make sure we cover all possible ground. I recommend not skipping over this part as it will help you make a good choice when you start developing your mobile project.

Things are going to be much easier to install on macOS compared to Windows as macOS is a UNIX-based system, so the terminal is a lot more powerful. But worry not – we will solve this problem for Windows as well.

We have some requirements we must consider before we move on. These are going to help us create a good environment for both Expo and the React Native CLI, and also for JavaScript programming in general.

We'll need the following technologies installed for either system:

  • Homebrew – macOS only
  • Chocolatey – Windows only
  • Node.js
  • Text Editor
  • Android Studio
  • Xcode...