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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)

What's an onboarding screen and where can we use it?

We should start this chapter by understanding what exactly an onboarding screen is. An onboarding screen is like a short introduction to your app before it's used. It's the first screen that welcomes the user.

The onboarding of your app should have a specific goal when it comes to welcoming users. You'll have to make sure that your onboarding will help users understand how they're supposed to be using the app, while also exciting them about the features they'll be able to use.

If you've made sure that the onboarding screen is going to be a great experience for your users, then you can expect more engagement from them in the first few days of them using the app. High engagement means happy users, which means your app is creating a really good user experience.

The onboarding screen should only appear to first-time users. We all know how annoying it would be to redo a tutorial in a game. Even...