Summary

While navigation is a core concept for almost every mobile application, the waters are still a bit murky in the world of React Native. For simple applications, the Navigator API provides an easy, ready-to-use component for managing scenes. For applications that are more sophisticated, the new NavigationExperimental API is worth learning and applying. The statelessness of NavigationExperimental and its declarative API make it a much more natural fit for a React application.

In addition to navigational APIs, the React Native library comes with many other native APIs that can be used to make complex and interesting applications. In this chapter, we looked at using the NetInfo API to check for Internet connectivity, the Linking API to open articles in the native browser, and the AsyncStorage API to persist data locally on the device. While these APIs showcase some of the exciting things that can be done with React Native, the list here is not exhaustive. As React Native becomes more mature...