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Mastering React Native

You're reading from   Mastering React Native Learn Once, Write Anywhere

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885785
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Foundation in React FREE CHAPTER 2. Saying HelloWorld in React Native 3. Styling and Layout in React Native 4. Starting our Project with React Native Components 5. Flux and Redux 6. Integrating with the NYT API and Redux 7. Navigation and Advanced APIs 8. Animation and Gestures in React Native 9. Refactoring for Android 10. Using and Writing Native Modules 11. Preparing for Production 12. React Native Tools and Resources

Other advanced APIs


In the final section of this chapter, we'll delve into a few other React Native advanced APIs and see how they can help us to make our application more sophisticated and user-friendly. We cannot hope to cover every available advanced API, but this feature-based approach should help to illuminate what is possible with React Native.

Offline messages with NetInfo

Our news reader application relies, in large part, on a connection to the Internet. It needs this connection to interact with the New York Times HTTP API and get the latest news articles. If the device our application is running on does not have a connection to the Internet, it would be helpful for us to know this so that we can inform our users.

React Native has an API called NetInfo that allows us to do just that. NetInfo can tell us what the connectivity status is currently and also allows us to be informed whenever that connectivity status changes. We will use this API in the NewsFeed component to display a No...

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