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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

Overview


Instead of putting much effort into the app's look and feel, as we did in previous chapters, we will focus on functionality and code quality for this one. Nevertheless, we will build it in a way which will allow any developer to style it easily at a later stage. With that in mind, let's take a look at what the app will look like once finished.

Let's start from the home screen where all the books are displayed:

In Android, we will add a drawer navigation pattern instead of a tabbed one as Android users are more used to it:

The drawer can be opened by swiping the screen from the left edge to the right:

Now, let's see what happens when a user taps on one of the books from the home screen (list of books available):

The Android version for this screen will be similar, as only a couple of native components will adopt a different styling, depending on which platform the app is executed:

Only logged-in users will be able to buy books from our app. This means that we need to pop up a login/registration...