Adding platform-specific code

Working with the generic components is good enough for most development, but you may want to utilize some platform-specific feature, and RN provides a way to do so. Obviously, if you start along this trend, you may end with a bigger job, and it will be harder to maintain your code, but done judiciously, it can add some extra pizzazz to your app.

In this recipe, we'll look at how to adapt your app so that it will fit in better for whatever platform it runs on.

How to do it...

The simplest way to recognize your platform is by using the Platform module, which includes a property, Platform.OS, which tells you whether you are running Android or iOS. Let's go for a simple example. Imagine...