In this chapter, we added animations and gestures to a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game that was built with React Native and Expo. The animations were created using the React Native Animated API and Lottie, which is available from the Expo CLI and as a separate package. We also added basic and more complex gestures to the game, which runs in the native thread thanks to the react-native-gesture-handler package.

Animations and gestures provide a clear improvement to the user interface of your mobile application, and there's even more we can do. Still, our application will also need to request and display data to your users.

Previously, we used GraphQL alongside React. We will build upon this in the next chapter. The project that you'll create in the next chapter will explore handling real-time data in a React Native application using WebSockets and GraphQL using Apollo...