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React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native

You're reading from   React: Cross-Platform Application Development with React Native Build 4 real-world apps with React Native

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136081
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emilio Rodriguez Martinez Emilio Rodriguez Martinez
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Chat


To keep our code succinct and maintainable, we will use GiftedChat for rendering all the messages in a chat, but there is still some work we need to do to properly render this screen:

/*** src/screens/Chat.js ***/

import React, { PropTypes } from 'react'
import { View, Image, ActivityIndicator } from 'react-native';
import { observer, inject } from 'mobx-react/native'
import { GiftedChat } from 'react-native-gifted-chat'

@inject('chats', 'users') @observer
class Chat extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = ({ navigation, screenProps }) => ({
    title: navigation.state.params.name,
    headerRight: <Image source={{uri: navigation.state.params.image}} 
    style={{
      width: 30,
      height: 30,
      borderRadius: 15,
      marginRight: 10,
      resizeMode: 'cover'
    }}/>
  })

  onSend(messages) {
    this.props.chats.addMessages(this.chatId, this.contactId, 
    messages);
  }

  componentWillMount() {
    this.contactId = this.props.navigation.state...
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