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React Native Cookbook

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991926

Length 592 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Daniel Ward

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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Using font icons

Icons are an indispensable part of almost any app, particularly in navigation and buttons. Similar to Expo's font helper, covered in the previous chapter, Expo also has an icon helper that makes adding icon fonts much less of a hassle than using vanilla React Native. In this recipe, we'll see how to use the icon helper module with the popular FontAwesome and Ionicons icon font libraries.

Getting ready

We'll need to make a new project for this recipe. Let's name this project font-icons.

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Authors (1)

Ward

Ward

Dan Ward is a full-stack developer and web technology consultant who has a number of years of experience working on mobile applications with React Native, and developing web applications with React, Vue, and Angular. He's also a co-founder at gitconnected, and co-editor at the associated Medium publication. His professional interests include React Native development, modern web development, and technical writing. He also has a BA in English Literature from Florida State University.

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