10 posts tagged with "React Native Controls"

React Native has become the go-to framework for creating cross-platform mobile applications that feel native on iOS, Android, and even the web. While it's a strong foundation for app development, taking an app from a concept to a visually appealing, smooth, and user-friendly interface can be quite challenging and time-consuming. That is where React Native UI libraries come into their own. These libraries offer developers the pre-built and customizable elements that accelerate the design process and thereby help create amazing apps faster with less effort.

If you are looking for design-kit inspiration and starter screens, see Best Free React Native UI Kits. This article focuses on reusable component libraries and design-system building blocks.

In this article, we are going to describe how to add a video player in your React Native app in order to support playing Youtube videos. Video is the present and the future of the Internet, as you can already see through apps such as TikTok, Youtube, Instagram or Facebook.

React Native is the JavaScript framework which facilitates the development of cross-platform mobile application development, as well as websites and progressive apps development. With the growing popularity of React, it is deemed as one of the most used JavaScript frameworks in the modern world. We are putting together a list of the best free React Native UI Kits, which designers and React Native developers can use to jumpstart the design & development of their next mobile project.

This page focuses on free UI kits. If you need the main React Native UI kit comparison, start with Best Free React Native UI Kits. If you are choosing a full source-code starter instead of UI-only components, use The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates.

At Instamobile, we offer functional free and premium React Native UI Kits, to help developers and entrepreneurs build their native mobile apps for iOS and Android more quickly. By using a free React Native UI Kit, you skip the hard part of creating an app from scratch. You get to use beautiful UI elements, that were already created and implemented for you so that you can focus on what makes your app unique. A React Native UI Kit offers developers a large set of gorgeous UI Components, that can be used to build a beautiful React Native interface. A UI Design Kit basically provides the bricks that you need to put together to create a mobile app. Check out our premium and free Mobile App Templates if you’re looking to save months of work and launch your startup faster.

If you are comparing complete app templates instead of UI-only kits, start with The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates. For a broader component-library comparison, see React Native UI Libraries.

Gradients can make a React Native screen feel more polished, but they are easy to overuse. The best gradients have a job: improving contrast on images, creating a clear call-to-action, separating a hero area, or adding depth to a small UI element without hurting readability.

For Expo and Expo-modules apps, expo-linear-gradient is the most direct solution. It renders a native gradient view on iOS and Android and also works on web.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement React Native Charts in your mobile app projects. In order to add chart visuals to a mobile app, we are going to use the react-native-chart-kit library, which provides us with the ability to add stunning charts to our React native apps. With this charts library, you can create line charts, Bezier line charts, Pie charts, Bar charts, Progress charts, and Contribution graphs. The library provides a Charts API that is easy to use, responsive, easy to plug-in and highly customizable.

Whether you’re building a React Native Tinder Clone or an original dating app, you’ll eventually end up implementing the UI for React Native Swipe Cards. At Instamobile, we built a Tinder cards component in React Native, for our Tinder Clone app. If you’re looking to learn how to build an app like Tinder in React Native, this tutorial is the perfect place to get started from.

In today’s article we will build a React Native Music Player, to showcase how easy it is to build a music app in React Native, that is optimized for both native iOS and Android. The project we are going to build will look and behave similar to the Spotify player, that all of us are familiar with. The main goal is to have a basic app with two screens: one with a list of predefined songs and another one with the actual music player.

Push notifications are one of the highest-leverage features in a React Native app, but they are also easy to get wrong. Firebase Cloud Messaging can deliver messages to Android and iOS, but iOS still depends on APNs, modern Android requires runtime notification permission, and every production app needs a trusted backend to send notifications.

This guide focuses on the current architecture: the mobile app requests permission and stores device tokens; Firebase owns delivery; your backend sends messages with Firebase Admin SDK or FCM HTTP v1.

Apple Pay and Google Pay can make mobile checkout faster, especially for commerce, marketplace, restaurant, delivery, booking, and service apps. Old React Native tutorials often mention Android Pay or abandoned Payment Request wrappers. For current production work, use the maintained payment SDK for your provider and keep privileged payment logic on your backend.

This guide focuses on Stripe's React Native SDK because it supports PaymentSheet and platform wallets through the same production payment flow.