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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition
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React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

by Daniel Ward
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
14h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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I'd like to call your attention to the definition of the title style in step 3. Here, we've defined a property called backgroundColor and set transparent as its value. As a good exercise, let's comment this line of code and see the result:

On iOS, the text will have an orange background color and it might not be what we really want to happen in our UI. In order to fix this, we need to set the background color of the text as transparent. But the question is, why is this happening? The reason is that React Native adds some optimizations to the text by setting the color from the parent's background color. This will improve the ...

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ISBN: 9781788991926