Part 2 Developing applications in React Native

With the basics covered, you can start adding features to your React Native app. The chapters in this part cover styling, navigation, animations, and elegant ways to handle data using data architectures (with a focus on Redux).

Chapters 4 and 5 teach how to apply styles either inline with components or in stylesheets that components can reference. And because React Native components are the main building blocks of your app’s UI, chapter 4 spends some time teaching useful things you can do with the View component. Chapter 5 builds on the skills taught in chapter 4. It covers aspects of styling that are platform specific, as well as some advanced techniques, including using flexbox to make it easier to lay out an application.

Chapter 6 shows how to use the two most-recommended and most-used navigation libraries, React Navigation and React Native Navigation. We walk through creating the three main types of navigators—tabs, stack, and drawer—and how to control the navigation state.

Chapter 7 covers the four things you need to do to create animations, the four types of animatable components that ship with the Animated API, how to create custom animatable components, and several other useful skills.