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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 birdGame and will be available for iOS and Android devices:

react-native init --version="0.46.4" birdGame

As this one is a simple game, we will only need one screen in which we will position all our sprites moving, showing, or hiding them depending on the state of the game, which will be managed by Redux. Therefore, our folder structure will be in line the standard Redux apps:

The actions folder will only contain one file as there are only three actions which may happen in this game ( start , tick, and bounce). There is also a sounds folder to store the sound effect which will be played every time the parrot passes a pair of rocks:

For each sprite, we will create a component so we can move it, show it, or hide it easily:

Again, only one reducer will be needed to process all our actions. We will also create two helper files:

  • constants.js: This is where we will store helper...