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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Picker


So far in this book, we have used DatePickerIOS and DatePickerAndroid for users to select dates. Each platform also has access to a native Picker component, where we can populate an array of choices and allow our users to interact with it.

Building a Picker is easy. We start by writing a Picker in the render method of a component and populate it with Picker.Item children:

<Picker> 
  <Picker.Item  
    label='Hello' 
    value='hello' 
  /> 
</Picker>  

Then, we can give the Picker some props. The following ones are used in this exercise:

  • onValueChange: This is a callback fired when an item has been selected. It passes two arguments: itemValue and itemPosition
  • selectedValue: This is a reference to the current value of the Picker list

Selecting a category

We will modify our existing AddExpensesModal component to add the following functionality:

  • Create a Button right below the ExpandableCell/DatePickerIOS component to select a category for our expense.
  • On press, that button...
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