You can consume APIs in react native using the Axios library. You can use either Axios or Fetch API to fetch data from third-party APIs. In this example, I am using Axios to call APIs. In the example below, I am using free coindesk API which gives Bitcoin prices in different currencies. The API link…
While developing react native apps for the Android platform, you always want to use an Android emulator. In this blog post let’s learn how to reload the Android emulator for react native using keyboard shortcuts. In order to reload the Android simulator just press R twice ad you can see the app reload instantly. If…
Yes, you can take a screenshot from the Android emulator even without opening Android Studio. First of all, run your Android emulator. If you want to know how to run an Android emulator without opening Android Studio then check out this blogpost. In order to take a screenshot, you just need to press ctrl +…
Opening Android Studio every time you want to launch an emulator is not an easy task in case of having a slow PC. Android Studio consumes RAM and opening Android Studio might make your PC slow. I assume you have already created a virtual device with AVD using Android Studio. Then in order to launch…
In HTML, you can easily put a line break with the tag <br> but the thing is different for React Native. In React Native you have to use \n in between your text to get a line break. As react native uses JSX, you have to ensure that \n is wrapped with brace brackets, like…
Sometimes, you may want to check if a value is undefined or not in react native. The usual scenario you face undefined property is while iterating through a JavaScript object with invalid keys. This blog post helps you to check if a JavaScript object property is undefined or not. In JavaScript, you can make use…
The name conflict may occur in react native when you import components from react native as well as from any other third-party libraries with the same name. Just have a look at the code snippet given below: As you notice, we have imported two Text components, one from react native and the other from react…
React Native provides a StatusBar component to control your app status bar. You can easily create a white color StatusBar with the following snippet: Yes, there’s a problem with the above snippet, the whole status bar turns to white and you can’t see the content such as the signal, battery, etc. In such cases, you…
Sometimes you may want to show an image in a round shape in your React Native app. Usually, we show images such as profile images in a circular shape. In this blog post, let’s check how to add a round image in react native easily. Making round images in Android and iOS is easy. In…
By default, you use the keyboard hardware of your mac in your iOS simulator. But you may need to test the behavior of the iOS device keyboard when using your react native app. It is also known that React Native has some keyboard-related issues. Switching from a hardware keyboard to a simulator keyboard is easy….
Most of the time, you may want to test your react native app on different iOS simulators to ensure that your app works well with all iOS devices. When you run react-native run-ios command it opens up your default iOS simulator. In this blog post, let’s check how to run your app on a specific…
When we submit our apps to App Store or Play Store, submitting screenshots is mandatory. In this blog post, I will tell you how to take screenshots in your iOS simulator. Owning all iOS devices is not possible for everyone. Hence, we need to use the iOS simulator to take screenshots. And taking screenshots using…