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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)

Chapter 10: Building an Onboarding Screen

We've been through so much that we can say it's finally time to start building more than just components. We'll begin by creating a really important part of any application and that's the onboarding screen.

We'll go over what exactly an onboarding screen is and its purpose in an app. We'll understand that there are many types of onboarding screens, but we'll focus on creating just one of those types.

By learning how to create this type of screen, we'll learn lots of cool new concepts we haven't been exposed to until now. These new concepts will be helpful for you in the future for building lots of different types of screens. By learning a lot of new things, we can surpass our creative limitations and be more prepared for future challenges.

We'll learn about animation and how to create a cool animation for our screens. This will open the door to creating a smoother user experience for...