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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)

Maintaining consistency in your app

Consistency is something that can be extremely helpful, whether we're talking about design or our personal life. I've learned that being consistent is the key to a healthy, successful life. Being consistent is what gets me from point A to point B, and I do believe that this gets applied to every aspect of life. Being consistent is about the experience.

Slowly progressing from the main screen to the last screen of our mobile app is an experience that needs to be enjoyed by our users. This experience can only be enjoyed by avoiding confusion and reducing the amount of learning for the user.

Let's see how we can achieve consistency in our design and the appropriate way of handling issues of consistency.

Device UI guidelines and behaviors

iOS and Android have different UIs and different usability guidelines. It'd be good for you to get familiar with them. By identifying the differences between the platforms, we can...