Installing the Facebook SDK on iOS and Android

Initialize a new React Native project using the following command line:

react-native init Friends

Afterwards, navigate to the new project you just created using a command line.

The Facebook SDK for React Native is available through npm in a package called react-native-fbsdk. We'll install it as such:

npm install --save react-native-fbsdk

Now link the SDK, as follows:

react-native link react-native-fbsdk

Now, follow the detailed instructions on the react-native-fbsdk repo on GitHub found at https://github.com/facebook/react-native-fbsdk. Since the installation instructions are prone to being changed at any given time, I highly recommend that you use the instructions found in that repo.

Afterward, install the react-native-vector-icons library that we used in Expenses using the process we saw earlier (refer to Chapter 4, Advanced Functionality with the Expenses App, if you need a refresher).

Once you have initialized the app for this project and installed...