Use The iOS Camera In Your React Native Mobile App

In many mobile applications it is essential to be able to use the device camera. Maybe you’re creating the next Instagram or other photo sharing application.

Previously I wrote how to use the device camera in Ionic Framework, but how might we do the same with React Native?

Lucky for us, with React Native, there is an external component that lets us use the camera. Using react-native-camera by Loch Wansbrough, we have access to both the front and back device camera.

Make HTTP Requests In iOS With React Native

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you’ll know I did an article for doing HTTP requests with Ionic Framework. Since I’ve been playing around with React Native a lot lately, I figured it is probably a good idea to figure out how to do RESTful HTTP requests sooner than later since everything has an API back-end now.

The Facebook documentation for React Native has (or had at the time of writing this) a tutorial for getting movie data from a remote API. However, it hardly explained how to customize the HTTP request. In fact, I found that a lot of the internet was missing clear cut documentation for RESTful requests with React.

This article should clear things up!

Saving Data In Your React Native Mobile Application

So you’ve been fiddling with React Native for a bit now like I have. If you’re like me then you’re at a point where you’re ready to look at saving and loading data in your mobile application.

Now I’ve previously demonstrated saving data with Ionic Framework, so the goals I’m about to share are going to be very similar. We’re going to focus on React Native’s AsyncStorage class to accomplish what we need.

Internationalization And Localization In Your React Native App

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog and tutorials, you’ll know that I’ve done quite a few posts on Ionic Framework. I’ve been hearing a lot about React Native lately so I figured it is time to give it a shot.

There are 6,500 languages and roughly seven billion people in the world. Chances are your native language is only known by a small piece of the global population. You can boost downloads of your application and overall App Store Optimization (ASO) by accommodating a larger variety of languages.

Last year, I did a tutorial regarding localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n) in an Ionic Framework Android and iOS application. This time I’m going to go over the same, but in a React Native application for iOS.