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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

Introducing LayoutAnimation and Animated


Before we delve too deeply into either animation API, let's first set out why you would use one API as opposed to the other. LayoutAnimation has a far simpler API than Animated. As a result, it's less configurable. LayoutAnimation will animate a component upon a render cycle, such as when you call setState. Animated allows you, at a much more granular level, to configure how an animation or sequences of animations is executed. Additionally, the Animated API can tie animations to user gestures, allowing users, for example, to drag an element across the screen.