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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)

Using Galio in your apps

Now, let's see Galio in action. One of the greatest features of Galio—besides the way it looks or the ease of writing code—is our Block component, which is basically a View component but with superpowers. Why do we say superpowers? We could easily use this component to both create our layout and easily style everything just by using props.

So, let's put this into action and see how easy it is to create a basic layout with the Block component. I'll take you step by step and show you the most usual ways of using Block while also demonstrating the most common ways of arranging the layout. You can find the project in our GitHub repository or you can follow along by coding with me.

I'll start by creating a new Expo project. After that, I'll install Galio via the command line by writing the following code:

npm i galio-framework

Now that we have everything installed, I'll skip the whole process of organizing...