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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

In this chapter, we've experienced the process of creating a screen for our app. We took a design file, looked at it, and recreated the design with no functionality. This is a great step in anyone's career as this is your first time finishing an app idea. I think you should pat yourself on the back and realize that what you're doing here is not that easy. A lot of people would not even try to start learning about this, but you've done it. On top of that, you've even created a fully styled screen.

Once we'd learned about styling, Galio came in. We learned how building a layout with Galio makes it a lot easier for us. We're still not escaping the styling part entirely but we would never be able to not style something. After all, styling is fun. By using Galio, we've seen how easy it is to arrange elements and create fast prototypes.

By the end of this chapter, we looked at two different ways of publishing our app idea to Expo Go...