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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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How it works...

In this recipe, we created a native module similar to the module covered in the Exposing custom iOS modules recipe from earlier in this chapter. We defined the native module to perform arbitrary execution in the background of the React Native app. In this recipe the background process is made up of the following three steps:

  1. Spawn a new thread.
  2. Sleep for five seconds on the new thread.
  3. After the five second sleep (simulating the end of a running background process), an event is dispatched from the iOS layer to the React Native layer, letting it know that the process has been completed. This is accomplished via the OS's GCD API.

The purpose of the UI in this app is to exhibit that multithreading has been achieved. If the ...

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ISBN: 9781788991926