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React Native in Action
Developing iOS and Android apps with JavaScript
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Learn how to utilize your existing JavaScript skills to create rich cross-platform mobile apps.
React Native in Action gives iOS, Android, and web developers the knowledge and confidence they need to begin building high-quality iOS and Android apps using the React Native framework.
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Part 1: Getting started with React Native
1 Getting started with React Native
1.1 Introducing React and React Native
1.1.1 A basic React class
1.1.2 React lifecycle
1.2 What you’ll learn
1.3 What you should know
1.4 Understanding how React Native works
1.4.1 JSX
1.4.2 Threading
1.4.3 React
1.4.4 Unidirectional data flow
1.4.5 Diffing
1.4.6 Thinking in components
1.5 Acknowledging React Native’s strengths
1.5.1 Developer availability
1.5.2 Developer productivity
1.5.3 Performance
1.5.4 One-way data flow
1.5.5 Developer experience
1.5.6 Transpilation
1.5.7 Productivity and efficiency
1.5.8 Community
1.5.9 Open source
1.5.10 Immediate updates
1.5.11 Other solutions for building cross-platform mobile applications
1.6 React Native’s drawbacks
1.7 Creating and using basic components
1.7.1 An overview of components
1.7.2 Native components
1.7.3 Component composition
1.7.4 Exportable components
1.7.5 Combining components
1.8 Creating a starter project
1.8.1 Create React Native App CLI
1.8.2 React Native CLI
Summary
2 Understanding React
2.1 Managing component data using state
2.1.1 Correctly manipulating component state
2.2 Managing component data using props
2.3 React component specifications
2.3.1 Using the render method to create a UI
2.3.2 Using property initializers and constructors
2.4 React lifecycle methods
2.4.1 The static getDerivedStateFromProps method
2.4.2 The componentDidMount lifecycle method
2.4.3 The shouldComponentUpdate lifecycle method
2.4.4 The componentDidUpdate lifecycle method
2.4.4 The componentDidUpdate lifecycle method
Summary
3 Building your first React Native app
3.1 Laying out the Todo app
3.2 Coding the todo app
3.3 Opening the developer menu
3.3.1 Opening the developer menu in the iOS simulator
3.3.2 Opening the developer menu in the Android emulator
3.3.3 Using the developer menu
3.4 Continuing building the todo app
Summary
Part 2: Developing applications in React Native
4 Introduction to styling
4.1 Applying and organizing styles in React Native
4.1.1 Applying styles in applications
4.1.2 Organizing styles
4.1.3 Styles are code
4.2 Styling view components
4.2.1 Setting the background color
4.2.2 Setting border properties
4.2.3 Specifying margins and padding
4.2.4 Using position to place components
4.2.5 Profile Card positioning
4.3 Styling Text components
4.3.1 Text components vs. View components
4.3.2 Font styles
4.3.3 Using decorative text styles
Summary
5 Styling in depth
5.1 Platform-specific sizes and styles
5.1.1 Pixels, points, and DPs
5.1.2 Creating drop shadows with ShadowPropTypesIOS and Elevation
5.1.3 Putting it into practice: drop shadows in the ProfileCard
5.2 Using transformations to move, rotate, scale, and skew components
5.2.1 3D effects with perspective
5.2.2 Moving elements along the x- and y-axes with translateX and translateY
5.2.3 Rotating elements with rotateX, rotateY, and rotateZ (rotate)
5.2.4 Setting visibility when rotating an element more than 90°
5.2.5 Scaling objects on the screen with scale, scaleX, and scaleY
5.2.6 Using the scale transform to create a thumbnail of the ProfileCard
5.2.7 Skewing elements along the x- and y-axes with skewX and skewY
5.2.8 Transformation key points
5.3 Using flexbox to lay out components
5.3.1 Altering a component’s dimensions with flex
5.3.2 Specifying the direction of the flex with flexDirection
5.3.3 Defining how space is used around a component with justifyContent
5.3.4 Aligning children in a container with alignItems
5.3.5 Overriding the parent container’s alignment with alignSelf
5.3.6 Preventing clipped items with flexWrap
Summary
6 Navigation
6.1 React Native navigation vs. web navigation
6.2 Building a navigation-based app
6.3 Persisting data
6.4 Using DrawerNavigator to create drawer-based navigation
Summary
7 Animations
7.1 Introducing the Animated API
7.2 Animating a form input to expand on focus
7.3 Creating a custom loading animation using interpolation
7.4 Creating multiple parallel animations
7.5 Creating an animated sequence
7.6 Using Animated.stagger to stagger animation start times
7.7 Other useful tips for using the Animated library
Summary
8 Using the Redux data architecture library
8.1 What is Redux?
8.2 Using context to create and manage global state in a React application
8.3 Implementing Redux with a React Native app
8.4 Creating Redux reducers to hold Redux state
8.5 Adding the provider and creating the store
8.6 Accessing data using the connect function
8.7 Adding actions
8.8 Deleting items from a Redux store in a reducer
Summary
Part 3: API reference
9 Implementing
9.1 Using the Alert API to create cross-platform notifications
9.1.1 Use cases for alerts
9.1.2 Example of using alerts
9.2 Using the AppState API to detect the current application state
9.2.1 Use cases for AppState
9.2.2 Example of using AppState
9.3 Using the AsyncStorage API to persist data
9.3.1 Use cases for AsyncStorage
9.3.2 Example of using AsyncStorage
9.4 Using the Clipboard API to copy text into the user’s clipboard
9.4.1 Use cases for Clipboard
9.4.2 Example of using Clipboard
9.5 Using the Dimensions API to get the user’s screen information
9.5.1 Use cases for the Dimensions API
9.5.2 Example of using the Dimensions API
9.6 Using the Geolocation API to get the user’s current location information
9.6.1 Use cases for the Geolocation API
9.6.2 Example of using Geolocation
9.7 Using the Keyboard API to control the location and functionality of the native keyboard
9.7.1 Use cases for the Keyboard API
9.7.2 Example of using the Keyboard API
9.8 Using NetInfo to get the user’s current online/offline status
9.8.1 Use cases for NetInfo
9.8.2 Example of using NetInfo
9.9 Getting information about touch and gesture events with PanResponder
9.9.1 Use cases for the PanResponder API
9.9.2 Example of using PanResponder
Summary
10 Implementing iOS-specific components and APIs
10.1 Targeting platform-specific code
10.1.1 iOS and Android file extensions
10.1.2 Detecting the platform using the Platform API
10.2 DatePickerIOS
10.3 Using PickerIOS to work with lists of values
10.3.1 Example of using PickerIOS
10.4 Using ProgressViewIOS to show loading indicators
10.4.1 Use cases for ProgressViewIOS
10.4.2 Example of using ProgressViewIOS
10.5 Using SegmentedControlIOS to create horizontal tab bars
10.5.1 Use cases for SegmentedControlIOS
10.5.2 Example of using SegmentedControlIOS
10.6 Using TabBarIOS to render tabs at the bottom of the UI
10.6.1 Use cases for TabBarIOS
10.6.2 Example of using TabBarIOS
10.7 Using ActionSheetIOS to show action or share sheets
10.7.1 Use cases for ActionSheetIOS
10.7.2 Example of using ActionSheetIOS
Summary
11 Implementing Android-specific components and APIs
11.1 Creating a menu using DrawerLayoutAndroid
11.2 Creating a toolbar with ToolbarAndroid
11.3 Implementing scrollable paging with ViewPagerAndroid
11.4 Using the DatePickerAndroid API to show a native date picker
11.5 Creating a time picker with TimePickerAndroid
11.6 Implementing Android Toasts using ToastAndroid
Summary
Part 4: Bringing it all together
12 Building a Star Wars app using cross-platform components
12.1 Creating the app and installing dependencies
12.1.1 Importing the People component and creating the Container component
12.1.2 Creating the navigation component and registering routes
12.1.3 Creating the main class for the initial view
12.2 Creating the People component using FlatList, Modal, and Picker
12.2.1 Creating the state and setting up a fetch call to retrieve data
12.2.2 Adding the remaining class methods
12.2.3 Implementing the render method
12.3 Creating the HomeWorld component
12.3.1 Creating the HomeWorld class and initializing state
12.3.2 Fetching data from the API using the url prop
12.3.3 Wrapping up the HomeWorld component
Summary
Appendixes
Appendix A: Installing and running React Native
A.1 Developing for iOS devices
A.1.1 Getting started
A.1.2 Testing the installation on iOS
A.2 Developing for Android devices
A.2.1 Mac and Android
A.2.2 Windows and Android
A.2.3 Linux and Android
A.2.4 Creating a new project (Mac/Windows/Linux)
A.2.5 Running a project (Mac/Windows/Linux)
About the Technology
React Native gives mobile and web developers the power of "and." Write your app once and easily deploy it to iOS and Android and the web. React Native apps compile into platform-specific code, reducing development time, effort, and cost! And because you're using JavaScript and the React framework, you benefit from a huge ecosystem of tools, expertise, and support.
About the book
React Native in Action teaches you to build high-quality cross-platform mobile and web apps. In this hands-on guide, you'll jump right into building a complete app with the help of clear, easy-to-follow instructions. As you build your skills, you'll drill down to more-advanced topics like styling, APIs, animations, data architecture, and more! You'll also learn how to maximize code reuse without sacrificing native platform look-and-feel.
What's inside
- Building cross-platform mobile and web apps
- Routing, Redux, and animations
- Cross-network data requests
- Storing and retrieving data locally
- Managing data and state
About the author
Nader Dabit is a developer advocate at AWS Mobile, where he works on tools and services to allow developers to build full-stack web and mobile applications using their existing skillset. He is also the founder of React Native Training and the host of the "React Native Radio" podcast.
