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React Native By Example

You're reading from   React Native By Example Native mobile development with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464750
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. First Project - Creating a Basic To-Do List App FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Functionality and Styling the To-Do List App 3. Our Second Project - The Budgeting App 4. Advanced Functionality with the Expenses App 5. Third Project - The Facebook Client 6. Advanced Facebook App Functionality 7. Redux 8. Deploying Your Applications 9. Additional React Native Components

Rendering links with WebView


When your users select a link, it's beneficial to render that link within your application so that your user doesn't get thrown out of the app and into their browser. To accomplish this task with React Native, we will use the WebView component.

The WebView component renders Web content within a native, app-contained view. For this app, we will use just one of its many props:

  • source: This loads either a URI with optional headers or static HTML into the WebView.

Rendering a WebView component is simple:

import { 
  WebView 
} from 'react-native'; 
 
class WebViewSample extends Component { 
  render () { 
    return ( 
      <WebView 
        source={{uri: 'https://www.google.com'}} /> 
    ) 
  } 
} 

Not all posts contain links in their attachments. When they do, the hierarchy looks like this:

attachments: [{ 
title: 'Link to Google' 
  url: 'https://www.google.com' 
}] 

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