Going mobile with React Native

If you're still unsure on how to get started with React Native, then check Wiktor Mociun's comprehensive introduction: Going mobile with React Native blog post When Facebook announced React Native I was amused. It is my chance to start developing mobile appl

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Brief example of Event Emitters in React Native

Colin Ramsay shared some tidbits on getting started with Event Emitters in React Native: React Native - Event Emitters blog post react-native-event-emitters code example on GitHub Events are a great way of communicating between components, but they should b

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React Native "Animated" API demo

Brace yourself, Animations are coming! As anticipated at ReactEurope by Spencer Ahrens the Animated API has made his debut on React Native (v0.8.0-rc). Brent Vatne apparently has some superpowers and he used them to read our minds. Guess what demo he's showin

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Gesture recognizer decorators for React Native

We previously covered Johannes Lumpe's experiments in Gesture detection in React Native and appreciated his findings and insights on the subject. We're happy to hear that his works has improved to the point that he has released a gesture decorator package whic

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React Native 0.8.0-rc and 0.7.1 released

v0.8.0-rc: New Features JavaScript Animation API: As mentioned above, there is a new API for animating components. See the animation documentation to learn more. Text decoration: The Text component supports various CSS-like decoration props: textDecoration

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