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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

This chapter was full of information regarding how to maintain a good clean design for our mobile apps. I hope that by the end of it, you've understood at least some of it because after all, we're not designers—we're programmers. I do think, though, that having at least a little bit of understanding regarding the tools other people use and some basic rules and guidelines is going to go a long way toward you becoming a better, more prepared programmer.

We've understood how to minimize user input and create great forms with a bigger completion rate for a great UX. We've also learned some rules on how to create those forms in a more logical way so that we never confuse our users.

After that, we're learned about how to declutter our designs so that they look like they have more breathing room and we've seen my creative process from the first draft for a screen design until the final result.

After learning about consistency and...