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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By : Alin Gheorghe
Book Image

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)

Building your e-commerce cards

As you know, whenever you buy something online, there's always a basket full of the products you've chosen. Each item in that basket is usually a card with information about the price, the item's name, a picture, and the possibility to increase or decrease the number of items of the same type.

So, this is what we're going to create as well. Let's take a look at it here, as we've already become so advanced that we should now be able to think of ways of creating the functionality with only those things that we've learned up to now:

Figure 8.17 – Final rendered version of our e-commerce card

Looks pretty good, right? Honestly, it isn't even that hard to build, so we'll be moving quickly through the layout. Let's create a new file called CommerceCard.js inside the components folder.

Now, let's think about which types of imports we'd need for this one—...