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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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Using a WebView to embed external websites

For many applications, it's required that external links can be visited and displayed within the app. This can be for showing a third-party website, online help, and the terms and conditions of using your app, among other things.

In this recipe, we will see how to open a WebView by clicking on a button in our app and dynamically setting the URL value. We'll also be using the react-navigation package for creating basic stack navigation in this recipe. Please check out the Setting up and using navigation recipe in Chapter 3, Implementing Complex User Interfaces – Part I for a deeper dive into building navigation.

If the needs of your app are better met by loading external websites via the device's ...

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ISBN: 9781788991926