My First React Native App: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with JavaScript and Native Features

by Mark Lawson

This book introduces the fundamentals of React Native for new developers. Readers learn how to build cross-platform mobile applications with JavaScript, integrate native features, and create responsive, user-friendly experiences.

152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2025

About the author

Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is known for his column in The Guardian, and for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row (1998-2014), and BBC Four's Mark Lawson talks to... series.