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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)

Summary

This chapter was one of the hardest challenges we've overcome so far. We've been through so many new concepts but in the end, we can happily say that we've successfully managed to create a great onboarding experience for our users. Even better, we've created a nice onboarding experience that we'll enjoy whenever we brag about our app.

We started by discovering how this app will look and then went through all the necessary steps to produce that app. We saw what it takes to create a nice list of elements, which brought us to FlatList. We used this component at the core of our onboarding screen, and you'll surely keep using it in the future whenever you encounter big lists of elements.

We also learned how to create animations and how exactly interpolation works. By doing this, we managed to create a cool little paginator that displays the current slide our users are seeing.

Finally, we even discovered that we can make things work without...