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React Native By Example

You're reading from   React Native By Example Native mobile development with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464750
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Project - Creating a Basic To-Do List App FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Functionality and Styling the To-Do List App 3. Our Second Project - The Budgeting App 4. Advanced Functionality with the Expenses App 5. Third Project - The Facebook Client 6. Advanced Facebook App Functionality 7. Redux 8. Deploying Your Applications 9. Additional React Native Components

Using ActivityIndicator


The ActivityIndicator component displays a circular loading indicator that lets you visualize a loading action for the user. It's helpful for the overall user experience since your users shouldn't feel like their actions aren't accomplishing their intentions.

The two ActivityIndicator props we will use in this app are as follows:

  • animating: This is a Boolean that either shows or hides the component. It defaults to true.
  • size: This is the physical size of the component. On iOS, your options are one of two strings: small and large. On Android, in addition to those two strings, you can pass it a number. This prop defaults to small.

We should modify our app to show this ActivityIndicator when data hasn't been loaded from the Graph API.

Let's modify the App component so that it conditionally renders the ActivityIndicator component when data has not yet been saved into the feed property of the App component's state.

The solution I came up with is as follows:

// Friends/app/App...
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