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M. H. HeCreating Apps with React Nativehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8042-3_4

4. Native Modules and Components

M. Holmes He1  
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Bucklands Beach, New Zealand
 

React Native is to app developers as ship is to sailors. Sailors still need to master swimming for critical tasks though they don’t have to swim all the way through with a ship.

—Holmes

In this chapter, we are going to program majorly in the native layer using the languages of native platforms. Wait, isn’t React Native a cross-platform that eliminates all needs of native development? True and false. Indeed, the React Native core bridges the native rendering system so the UI layout can be carried out on the JavaScript layer, like what we have accomplished in the previous ...

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