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Mastering React Native

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Mastering React Native

Overview of this book

React Native has completely revolutionized mobile development by empowering JavaScript developers to build world-class mobile apps that run natively on mobile platforms. This book will show you how to apply JavaScript and other front-end skills to build cross-platform React Native applications for iOS and Android using a single codebase. This book will provide you with all the React Native building blocks necessary to become an expert. We’ll give you a brief explanation of the numerous native components and APIs that come bundled with React Native including Images, Views, ListViews, WebViews, and much more. You will learn to utilize form inputs in React Native. You’ll get an overview of Facebook’s Flux data architecture and then apply Redux to manage data with a remote API. You will also learn to animate different parts of your application, as well as routing using React Native’s navigation APIs. By the end of the book, you will be able to build cutting-edge applications using the React Native framework.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering React Native
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 8.  Animation and Gestures in React Native

Because React Native utilizes truly native mobile technology, it allows us to create applications that not only look native but also feel native. Native applications are capable of fast, 60-fps animations, and can respond to complex touch gestures such as swipe and pinch. To that end, React Native offers two complementary animation APIs—Animated and LayoutAnimationPanResponder is another React Native API for handling advanced single-touch gestures or simple multi-touch gestures that can be easily paired with the Animated API.

In this chapter, we'll learn more about these APIs by building an onboarding experience for RNNYT. We'll break this process down into the following:

  • Building a basic onboarding view without any animations

  • Upgrading the onboarding experience using the LayoutAnimation API

  • Further upgrading onboarding with more complex animations using the Animated API

  • Allowing users to swipe through the onboarding views using the PanResponder...