Optimizing the performance of custom UI components

While building your React Native app, it's a safe bet that you will be creating custom UI components. These components can either be compositions of several other components or a component that builds on top of an existing component and adds more functionality. With added functionality, complexity also increases. This increased complexity leads to more operations, and in turn, the potential for slowdowns. Fortunately, there are some ways to make sure that our custom UI components are performing the best they can. This recipe shows several techniques for getting the most out of our components.

Getting ready

This recipe requires that you have a React Native app with some...