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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 has been a long journey for both of us. Fear not! The greater the challenge, the better the reward. You have reached the end of a pretty long and interesting journey. You now have a fully functional app that you can show to your friends. These are the first stepping stones of your journey toward becoming a great React Native developer.

We've started this chapter by looking at React Navigation. Creating routes and linking them to the onboarding screen was one of the coolest things we've ever done. This was also incredibly easy, which proves once again how great the React Native community is.

After linking our app to the React Navigation library, we started working on the Stopwatch screen. We learned that the setInterval() function is not that accurate, due to which we started working with date objects, which proved to be a lot more efficient for keeping time.

Finishing the Stopwatch screen felt like a big win, so because of that, creating our...