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React Native Cookbook

You're reading from   React Native Cookbook Recipes for solving common React Native development problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991926
Length 592 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Daniel Ward Daniel Ward
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Preface 1. Setting Up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Simple React Native App 3. Implementing Complex User Interfaces - Part I 4. Implementing Complex User Interfaces - Part II 5. Implementing Complex User Interfaces - Part III 6. Adding Basic Animations to Your App 7. Adding Advanced Animations to Your App 8. Working with Application Logic and Data 9. Implementing Redux 10. App Workflow and Third-Party Plugins 11. Adding Native Functionality - Part I 12. Adding Native Functionality - Part II 13. Integration with Native Applications 14. Deploying Your App 15. Optimizing the Performance of Your App 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Playing audio files on Android

A benefit that Google likes to claim that Android has over iOS is flexibility in dealing with file storage. Android devices support external SD cards that can be filled with media files and do not need a proprietary method of adding multimedia as iOS does.

In this recipe, we will use Android's native MediaPicker, which is started from an intent. We will then be able to pick a song and have it play through our application.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll create a React Native application titled AudioPlayer.

In this recipe, we will use the react-native-button library. To install it, run the following command in the terminal from your project root directory:

  $ npm install react...
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