React Native for Mobile Development: Harness the Power of React Native to Create Stunning iOS and Android Applications

✍ Scribed by Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Develop native iOS and Android apps with ease using React Native. Learn by doing through an example-driven approach, and have a substantial running app at the end of each chapter. This second edition is fully updated to include ES7 (ECMAScript 7), the latest version of React Native (including Redux), and development on Android.

You will start by setting up React Native and exploring the anatomy of React Native apps. You'll then move on to Redux data flow, how it differs from flux, and how you can include it in your React Native project to solve state management differently and efficiently. You will also learn how to boost your development by including popular packages developed by the React Native community that will help you write less; do more. Finally, you'll learn to how write test cases using Jest and submit your application to the App Store.

React Native challenges the status quo of native iOS and Android development with revolutionary components, asynchronous execution, unique methods for touch handling, and much more. This book reveals the the path-breaking concepts of React.js and acquaints you with the React way of thinking so you can learn to create stunning user interfaces.

What You'll Learn

• Build stunning iOS and Android applications
  
• Understand the Redux design pattern and use it in your project
  
• Interact with iOS and android device capabilities such as addressbook, camera, GPS and more with your apps
  
• Test and launch your application to the App Store

Who This Book Is For

Anyone with JavaScript experience who wants to build native mobile applications but dreads the thought of programming in Objective-C or Java. Developers who have experience with JavaScript but are new or not acquainted to React Native or ReactJS.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Learning the Basics: A Whistle-Stop Tour of React (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 1-20
The Simplest Program: Hello World with React Native (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 21-47
Solving Problems Differently with Flux and Redux (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 49-67
Canvas, Brush, and Paint: Working with the User Interface (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 69-101
Exploring Device Capabilities (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 103-139
Communicating with Servers (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 141-163
Native Bridging in React Native (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 165-186
Testing (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 187-197
Getting Ready for the World (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 199-223
The Ecosystem: Extending React Native (Akshat Paul, Abhishek Nalwaya)....Pages 225-232
Back Matter ....Pages 233-237

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Web Development