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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By : Gheorghe
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Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

Lightning-Fast Mobile App Development with Galio

By: Gheorghe

Overview of this book

Galio is a free open source React Native framework that enables beginner-level programmers to quickly build cross-platform mobile apps by leveraging its beautifully designed ready-made components. This book helps you to learn about React Native app development while building impressive out-of-the-box apps with Galio. Lightning Fast Mobile App Development with Galio takes a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and productive in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you will begin by exploring the basics of React Native and understanding how Galio works. As you make progress, you'll learn how to initialize and configure a React Native app and get to grips with the basics of React Native development. You'll also discover how packages work and how to install Galio as the main dependency, along with understanding how and why Galio helps you to develop apps with ease. Finally, you'll build three practical and exciting apps using React Native and Galio. By the end of this app development book, you'll have learned how to use Galio to quickly create layouts and set up React Native projects for your personal ideas.
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Creating your first React Native project

We're ready to go! Let's open up a terminal and head right into it!

Once the terminal is open, just move to your Desktop folder or any folder you wish to create your project in. You can move between folders by using the cd command. So, just by writing cd Desktop, we've arrived at the Desktop directory and we're ready to create our Expo project.

We can create a new React Native project with Expo by writing the following:

expo init MyFirstProject

Upon pressing Enter, Expo tells us we can choose between a multitude of templates. The biggest two categories are Managed workflow and Bare workflow:

Figure 1.6 – A representation of what you will see after initializing a project

We'll explain what both are in a few seconds. For now, pick blank under Managed workflow. Wait a few seconds and you'll see a message in your terminal stating the following:

Your project is ready!
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