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React Native in Action: Developing iOS and Android apps with JavaScript
Summary
React Native in Action gives iOS, Android, and web developers the knowledge and confidence they need to begin building high-quality iOS and Android apps using the React Native framework.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
React Native gives mobile and web developers the power of "and." Write your app once and easily deploy it to iOS and Android and the web. React Native apps compile into platform-specific code, reducing development time, effort, and cost! And because you're using JavaScript and the React framework, you benefit from a huge ecosystem of tools, expertise, and support.
About the Book
React Native in Action teaches you to build high-quality cross-platform mobile and web apps. In this hands-on guide, you'll jump right into building a complete app with the help ofclear, easy-to-follow instructions. As you build your skills, you'll drill down to more-advanced topics like styling, APIs, animations, data architecture, and more! You'll also learn how to maximize code reuse without sacrificing native platform look-and-feel.
What's Inside
Building cross-platform mobile and web apps
Routing, Redux, and animations
Cross-network data requests
Storing and retrieving data locally
Managing data and state
About the Reader
Written for beginner-to-intermediate web, Android, and iOS developers.
About the Authors
Nader Dabit is a developer advocate at AWS Mobile, where he works on tools and services to allow developers to build full-stack web and mobile applications using their existing skillset. He is also the founder of React Native Training and the host of the "React Native Radio" podcast.
Table of Contents
PART 1 Getting started with React Native
Getting started with React Native
Understanding React
Building your first React Native app
PART 2 Developing applications in React Native
Introduction to styling
Styling in depth
Navigation
Animations
Using the Redux data architecture library
PART 3 API reference
Implementing cross-platform APIs
Implementing iOS-specific components and APIs
Implementing Android-specific components and APIs
PART 4 Bringing it all together
Building a Star Wars app using cross-platform components
React Native in Action gives iOS, Android, and web developers the knowledge and confidence they need to begin building high-quality iOS and Android apps using the React Native framework.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
React Native gives mobile and web developers the power of "and." Write your app once and easily deploy it to iOS and Android and the web. React Native apps compile into platform-specific code, reducing development time, effort, and cost! And because you're using JavaScript and the React framework, you benefit from a huge ecosystem of tools, expertise, and support.
About the Book
React Native in Action teaches you to build high-quality cross-platform mobile and web apps. In this hands-on guide, you'll jump right into building a complete app with the help ofclear, easy-to-follow instructions. As you build your skills, you'll drill down to more-advanced topics like styling, APIs, animations, data architecture, and more! You'll also learn how to maximize code reuse without sacrificing native platform look-and-feel.
What's Inside
Building cross-platform mobile and web apps
Routing, Redux, and animations
Cross-network data requests
Storing and retrieving data locally
Managing data and state
About the Reader
Written for beginner-to-intermediate web, Android, and iOS developers.
About the Authors
Nader Dabit is a developer advocate at AWS Mobile, where he works on tools and services to allow developers to build full-stack web and mobile applications using their existing skillset. He is also the founder of React Native Training and the host of the "React Native Radio" podcast.
Table of Contents
PART 1 Getting started with React Native
Getting started with React Native
Understanding React
Building your first React Native app
PART 2 Developing applications in React Native
Introduction to styling
Styling in depth
Navigation
Animations
Using the Redux data architecture library
PART 3 API reference
Implementing cross-platform APIs
Implementing iOS-specific components and APIs
Implementing Android-specific components and APIs
PART 4 Bringing it all together
Building a Star Wars app using cross-platform components
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 7, 2019
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March 19, 2025
I agonized a bit over whether I should give this book 3 or 4 stars. It's a good book, which does a good job of covering the basics of React Native, but it desperately needs a new edition. A lot has happened in the React Native ecosystem since it was published (especially the rise of frameworks like Expo, which has become the recommended meta framework for React Native). Still, the only books out there that I can see that are newer than Dabit's book are published by packt, and my previous experience with packt books is that their quality sometimes leaves a lot to be desired.
So, I went with 4 stars since it's probably the best RN book out there currently. My suggestion for someone just starting out with RN then would be to speed read this book, so you'll get a big picture view of how it works, not really bothering with doing the coding projects yourself, and then start off coding with the Expo tutorials, which will teach you modern React Native and JavaScript practices.
So, I went with 4 stars since it's probably the best RN book out there currently. My suggestion for someone just starting out with RN then would be to speed read this book, so you'll get a big picture view of how it works, not really bothering with doing the coding projects yourself, and then start off coding with the Expo tutorials, which will teach you modern React Native and JavaScript practices.
December 1, 2019
Nice book if you are getting started with React Native.
It's detailed enough to clear most of the concepts but small enough to be finished in a week or two.
It's detailed enough to clear most of the concepts but small enough to be finished in a week or two.
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