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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By : Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
Book Image

React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

By: Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Overview of this book

React Native helps web and mobile developers to build cross-platform apps that perform at the same level as any other natively developed app. The range of apps that can be built using this library is huge. From e-commerce to games, React Native is a good fit for any mobile project due to its flexibility and extendable nature. This project-based book consists of four standalone projects. Each project will help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone car booking 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 is ideal for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from the content of Packt's React Native Blueprints by Emilio Rodriguez Martinez.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Setting up the Folder Structure


Let's initialize a React Native project using React Native's CLI. The project will be named imageShare and will be available for iOS and Android devices:

react-native init --version="0.44.0" imageShare

In order to use some packages in this app, we will be using a specific version of React Native (0.44.0).

We will be using Redux for our app, so we will create a folder structure in which we can accommodate our reducers, actions, components, screens, and api calls:

Moreover, we have added logo.png in the img folder. For the rest, we have a very standard React Native project. The entry point will be index.ios.js for iOS and index.android.js for Android:

/*** index.ios.js and index.android.js ***/ 

import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native';
import App from './src/main';

AppRegistry.registerComponent('imageShare', () => App);

We have the same implementation for both files as we want to use src/main.js as the common entry point for both platforms.

Let's jump into...