Summary
Congratulations! You've finished the final chapter of React Native by Example. In this chapter, you learned to use more of the React Native library by working on components and APIs that we did not fit into previous apps in the book.
Specifically, you built a playground app where you learned how to use the fetch
API to make requests to external resources for data and gained control of the Vibration
API to control the vibration motor of a user's device.
Afterward, you used the Linking
API to open third-party applications on both iOS and Android, which allowed your app to talk to others. Then, you built a Slider
component that lets users select a value between two predetermined ones.
Finishing the playground app, you created Buttons
to open an ActionSheetIOS
overlay that presents options for your users to interact with and allowed your users to share content from your app using the Share sheet. As a finishing touch, you made use of the Geolocation
API to grab your user's location data...