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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 been through multiple examples of why Galio is such a great library. By the end of it, you must've figured out that Galio really deserves to be one of the libraries under your belt—one library to rule them all. This will act like your main package with which you'll create incredibly stunning apps, both visually for our users and our programming buddies who want to help us out with the code.

Don't be afraid of looking into Galio's core code. You might learn a lot of things from just experiencing and understanding Galio's code. You might even be able to create your own library.

So, we've discovered that Galio is really cool because the code is easy to use. We just have a few props that can change the whole world in terms of speed of coding and easy access to specific parameters. We've also seen how great Galio looks out of the box. I mean… this library is gorgeous. Sometimes, I wouldn't even...