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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 11: Let's Build – Stopwatch App

In the previous chapter, we built the beginning of our cool Stopwatch app by creating an onboarding screen. Now, it's time to finish our app by building the other features our users are going to use.

We'll learn lots of new things so that by the end of this chapter, we'll have a pretty cool app that I hope is going to inspire you to create more helpful applications for the rest of the world. The stuff we've learned so far and will continue to learn should give you all the necessary tools to create simple small applications, without the need for another tutorial. Even so, you'll sometimes find yourself looking all over the internet for solutions to your problems, and that's OK. We all do that, so be happy whenever you find a solution and you can make it work.

To build this React Native mobile app, we're going to start by linking our onboarding screen to our actual app by using the React Navigation...