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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 9.  Refactoring for Android

With a solid footing in the React Native ecosystem, we've been able to build a very credible iOS application. But, as we stated back in Chapter 2, Saying Hello World in React Native, React Native is about more than just iOS. React Native allows us to easily build apps for both iOS and Android platforms. What you're about to learn is just how easy that is to accomplish.

The goal of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, similar to Chapter 2, Saying Hello World in React Native, where we configured our environments for building and testing on the iOS simulator, we'll need to do the same for Android. Once we've configured our computers for React Native Android development, we'll update our RNNYT app so that it can run on both platforms. What you will discover as we work through this process is that most of our code runs out of the box without any modification. There are just a few components and styles we'll need to refactor to make the experience feel native to...