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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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Creating your own component!

Now that we've gotten through all the basic knowledge about how React and React Native work, it's time to put our skills to the test by creating a lot of different components. Worry not—we're also going to create a bigger and more complex app. But as you know, a React application is formed from lots of different components, so by creating components, we're actually getting ready to create apps.

I was thinking that for our first component, we should start with a news card. This would usually go straight to the news feed—we'd use multiple components like this with different text if we were to create a news app. So, how do we start?

Just like we usually do, create an app with the following command:

expo init chapter08

We're going to use the same app for all our exercises in this chapter because it's a lot easier than creating a project for each of them. So, right after the project has been created...

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