Create Your First React Native App

Explore how the FlatList in React Native renders efficient scrollable lists by passing a data array, customizing style, rendering items with renderItem, and extracting a unique key with keyExtractor.

Import contacts and a colors module, configure a FlatList with a white background, and render each contact’s email using a key extractor for unique items.

Organize your React Native components in a three-file directory: index.js for exports, styles.js for shared styling, and the component file itself; consider splitting complex components for clarity and reuse.

Install the React Native Vector Icons package via npm, link native dependencies for iOS and Android with React Native Link, then restart the simulator and packager to render icons.

Explore how React Native Vector Icons provides icon sets like Font Awesome and material icons, and how to use iron icons with icon component, including name, size, style, and color.

Build and export a reusable list item component for a React Native app. Display a contact's avatar, name, and email with an on-press handler and a platform-aware chevron.

Master the screen navigation prop to navigate between screens, access and update state.params with setParams, and use goBack after saving profile data on a demo screen.

Create a modular header for the user details screen in a React Native app, pass contact info via navigation params, and display a circular photo with a capitalized name.

Explore the ScrollView component in React Native to create scrollable detail screens without the overhead of a flat list, while understanding its trade-offs with performance.

Create a three-tab navigation in a React Native app using a Tab Navigator for context, new contact, and me, with icons, labels, and nested screens.

reuse the detail screen components (header, actions, info) to compose the me screen, using scroll view, colors, and MI data for a fully functional user interface.

Learn how the React Native keyboard aware scroll view keeps inputs visible by scrolling to the username field. Install via npm to add this package to your project.

Enhance a React Native contact form by using refs to focus inputs, switching the return key between next and done, and adding a robust submit/save flow.