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React Native By Example
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React Native By Example

by Richard Kho
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using ActivityIndicator

The ActivityIndicator component displays a circular loading indicator that lets you visualize a loading action for the user. It's helpful for the overall user experience since your users shouldn't feel like their actions aren't accomplishing their intentions.

The two ActivityIndicator props we will use in this app are as follows:

  • animating: This is a Boolean that either shows or hides the component. It defaults to true.
  • size: This is the physical size of the component. On iOS, your options are one of two strings: small and large. On Android, in addition to those two strings, you can pass it a number. This prop defaults to small.

We should modify our app to show this ActivityIndicator when data hasn't been loaded ...

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