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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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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

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In this section, we will create a button in the upper-right corner of the navigation bar that is labeled as Save. When it is tapped on, the following two things must happen:

  • The changes the user made to the to-do item (such as its name, completion status, and due date) must be saved to AsyncStorage, overwriting its previous details
  • The TasksList must be updated so that the user visually sees the changes they made right away

Rendering the Save button is easy with React Native. The object that gets pushed to NavigatorIOS needs to receive the following two key/value pairs:

  • rightButtonTitle: This is a string that renders the text shown in that area
  • onRightButtonPress: This is a callback that is fired when that button is pressed

At face value, this looks simple. However, we can't pass any information to the onRightButtonPress method of NavigatorIOS from a rendered child. Instead, we have to keep a copy of the changes we make inside our TasksList component as well, and update them as the...

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