6 posts tagged with "Getting Started"

Windows is a solid development environment for React Native Android apps. The important part is to install the native Android toolchain cleanly, keep Node and Java aligned with your app's React Native version, and use project-local commands instead of old global CLIs.

This guide focuses on Android development from Windows. Building and running iOS apps still requires macOS and Xcode.

If you already know JavaScript or React, the fastest way to learn React Native is not to watch weeks of passive tutorials. The fastest path is to run a real app, inspect the code, make small changes, debug those changes, and then ship a small feature end to end.

This guide gives you a practical learning roadmap for React Native developers who want to move from "I understand the basics" to "I can customize and launch an app."

React Native projects collect several kinds of local state while you work: Metro cache, Watchman watches, node_modules, CocoaPods, Gradle build output, and Xcode DerivedData. Cleaning all of them at once can fix some painful build issues, but it can also create new problems if you delete lockfiles or update native dependencies accidentally.

This guide shows a safer cleanup order. Start with the smallest cache reset that matches the symptom, then move down the checklist only if the problem remains.

We launched a free React Native Starter Kit, and I thought it’d be a good idea to document the entire process of designing a react native starter app, from inception to the final product. Hopefully, this can help people looking to create a mobile app and have no idea how to start and what the product design process looks like.

If you are comparing starter kits against full app templates, use The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates as the main decision guide. This article is focused on the product thinking behind a starter app.

Interested in learning React Native? Let’s build your first React Native app, a simple mobile app displaying a list of countries, fetched from a REST API with a network request. This React Native tutorial is aimed at introducing React Native, giving you the basis of what you need to know before building a real React Native application. After that, we proceed to helping you build your first real React Native app. By the end of this article you will build a React Native app that can run on both iOS and Android devices.

React Native is a framework for building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. There are lots of materials with which to learn React Native and in this article I will show the best 10 resources to learn React Native development. For each learning material I will talk about the entry behavior, time to complete, content and difficulty level.