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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

Building the FeedDetail screen


Let's recap what happened when the user tapped on one feed on the FeedsList screen:

 

_handleFeedPress(feed) {
  selectFeed(feed);
  this.props.navigation.navigate('FeedDetail', { feedUrl: feed.url });
}

The navigate method was called on the navigation property to open the FeedDetail screen. As a parameter, the _handleFeedPress function passed feedUrl, so it can retrieve the feed data and display it to the user. This is a necessary step since the data we have in our store for the selected feed can be obsolete. So, it's better to re-fetch that data before showing it to the user so we are sure it's 100% updated. We could also do a more complex check instead of retrieving the whole feed every time the user selects a feed, but we will stay with the given approach in order to keep simplicity in this app.

Let's start by retrieving the updated list of entries in the componentWillMount method:

 

/*** src/screens/FeedDetail.js ***/

import React from 'react';
import { observer...