Practical React Native: Build Two Full Projects and One Full Game using React Native

© Frank Zammetti 2018

Frank ZammettiPractical React Nativehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3939-1_8

8. Time for Some Fun: A React Native Game, Part 2

Frank Zammetti¹ 

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Pottstown, PA, USA

 

In the previous chapter, we began the process of building FunTime, a little React Native slide tile puzzle game. You saw the overall architecture, how the interface was laid out using absolute positioning, and how the grid of tiles was built.

The one thing you didn’t see is an actual game! What I mean by that is that seeing how the tiles are built and put on the screen is great, and seeing how the control menu works is great, but none of that makes a game. It just makes, well, a tile drawing app.

So, in this chapter, we’re going to look at the two functions that ...