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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

After learning so much about how React and React Native work, we finally got to the point where more practical challenges are getting tackled head-on. We've started by creating a simple component, where we mostly focused on styling and layout.

That was the easy part, and the first step into our next component was where we saw a different example of creating a layout, and we strengthened our brain muscles so that we can more easily start prototyping components on our own.

Right after this, we got into more serious components, and that was the register form where we learned a new concept called controlled inputs. This was really fascinating as we learned how to actually attack the problem of forms in React Native.

Our next component was even cooler as we used the useEffect function to initialize one of our state variables with a prop received by our component. Now, that's some seriously cool stuff, and I hope you got as excited as I did when I first discovered...