Built-in components you need to know about

React Native is growing fast and changing often. I have selected a curated list of components that are likely to stay within the API for a long time. We will spend some time learning them so that we will be able to proceed faster later on in this book. Any further examples will rely on these components and will assume that you know what these components are for.

The ScrollView component

So far, we know about three components: View , Text, and StyleSheet. Now, imagine a case where we have a lot of rows to show in the application—something such as table of information pops into my mind. Obviously, it will be a long table, but the screen is small, so we will make it scrollable...