Exploring React Native components and APIs

The main modules and components will be discussed in detail in each new chapter, but for now, let’s familiarize ourselves with them. A number of core components are available in the React Native framework for use in an app.

Almost all apps use at least one of these components. These are the fundamental building blocks of React Native apps:

• View: The main brick of any app. This is the equivalent of <div>, and on mobiles, it is represented as UIView or android.view. Any <View/> component can nest inside another <View/> component and can have zero or many children of any type.
• Text: This is a React component for displaying text. As with View, <Text/> supports nesting, styling, and touch handling.
• Image: This displays images from a variety of sources, such as network images, static resources, temporary local images, and images from the camera roll.
• TextInput: This allows users to...