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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)

Chapter 4. Project 4 – Game

Most of the most successful apps on the app stores are games. They proved to be really popular as mobile users tend to play all sort of games while commuting, in waiting rooms, when traveling, or even when relaxing at home. It is a fact that mobile users are more inclined to pay for a game than for any other kind of app in the market as the perceived value is higher most of the time.

Modern games are usually built in powerful gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal, as they provide a wide range of tools and frameworks to work with sprites, animations, or physics. But the reality is that great games can also be built in React Native due to its native capabilities. Moreover, React Native has introduced many web and mobile app programmers into game development as it offers them a familiar and intuitive interface. Of book, there are some concepts in game development which need to be understood in order to make the most of the library when building games. Concepts like...