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React Native Blueprints

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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React Native Blueprints

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

Considering the success of the React framework, Facebook recently introduced a new mobile development framework called React Native. With React Native's game-changing approach to hybrid mobile development, you can build native mobile applications that are much more powerful, interactive, and faster by using JavaScript This project-based guide takes you through eight projects to help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and helps you build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone groceries list app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book covers the entire feature set of React Native, starting from the simplest (layout or navigation libraries) to the most advanced (integration with native code) features. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build professional Android and iOS applications using React Native.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up the folder structure


As we did in the first chapter, we need to initialize a new React Native project through React Native's CLI. This time, we will name our project RSSReader:

react-native init --version="0.49.3" RSSReader

For this app, we will need a total of four screens:

  • FeedList: This is a list containing the titles for the feeds which were added to the app sorted by the time they were added.
  • AddFeed: This is a simple form to allow the user to add a feed by sending its URL. We will here retrieve the feed details to finally add and save them in our app for later usage.
  • FeedDetail: This is a list containing the latest entries (retrieved before mounting the screen) belonging to the selected feed.
  • EntryDetail: This is a WebView showing the contents of the selected entry.

Besides the screens, we will include an actions.js file containing all the user actions modifying the app's state. Although we will review how the state is managed in a later section, in detail, it's also important...