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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)

Creating your first screen

Once the development plan has been completed and we know where each component needs to go and what our application is going to look like, we're ready to create a new project. This project will set the first stones for this creative path that we've taken toward being a React-Native developer.

Let's begin by creating a new project:

  1. Go to your Terminal in your preferred directory and run the following command:
    expo init mga
  2. Choose the blank template for Managed Workflow and open the project folder.
  3. As we mentioned previously, we'll have five different components, one of which will be the screen itself. So, let's create two different directories called screens and components. This will make it easier to organize when we have several different screens.

    It's a good rule of thumb to always have a basic structure in your head when you start coding because you never know when you might want to add more and more to...