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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

Planning the app


Friends will be the first full-fledged example we build of just how powerful React Native is. It will deal with a lot of moving parts, so it's good to plan out the app in depth. On a basic level, accessing the Facebook Graph API gives us the following permissions:

  • Signing in
  • Viewing your feed
  • Viewing the list of posts on your feed along with its comments and likes
  • Adding new posts and comments on your feed
  • Browsing the photos that you've uploaded to your Facebook profile along with their comments and likes
  • Viewing the events that you have RSVPd
  • Rediscovering the list of pages that you have liked

As in the previous chapters, we want to break this off into bite-sized accomplishments. By the end of this chapter, Friends should do the following things:

  • Prompt the user to sign in to Facebook, if they haven't already, and save their authentication token automatically with the SDK
  • While the feed is loading, show a spinning animation to visualize that data is loading
  • Show the user their feed...
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