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Building Mobile Apps with React Native

by Richard Monson-Haefel

You will use your new React Native skills to learn more about navigation, multi-touch gestures, and calling web APIs. This course will teach you to develop richer, more engaging, cross-platform (iOS and Android) mobile applications using the React Native platform.

What you'll learn

Mobile applications need to provide a rich and engaging experience to attract and keep users. In this course, Building Mobile Apps with React Native, you’ll learn to develop mobile apps with more advanced navigation, multi-touch gestures, and Web API access. First, you’ll explore how to set up React Native to work with the Android Emulator and iOS Simulator. Next, you’ll discover how to implement navigation and data passing among screens and handle multi-touch gestures in a mobile user interface. Finally, you’ll learn how to request and process data from a remote web service using the XMLHttpRequest API. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of React Native needed to create richer, more engaging mobile applications for both iOS and Android.

About the author

Richard has more than 26 years of experience as a professional software developer and architect. He has written five books on enterprise Java including EJB, JMS, web services, and software architecture. He has served on the JCP executive committee and multiple expert groups is the co-founder of OpenEJB and Apache Geronimo, was a Sr. Analyst for Burton Group (aka Gartner), and is a celebrated public speaker.

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