Building flexbox layouts

In this section, we'll walk through several potential layouts that you can use in your React Native applications. I want to stay away from the idea that one layout is better than others. Instead, I'll show you how powerful the flexbox layout model is for mobile screens so that you can design the layout that best suits your application.

Simple three column layout

To start things off, let's implement a simple layout with three sections that flex in the direction of the column (top to bottom). Let's start by taking a look at the resulting screen:

The idea with this example is that we've styled and labeled the three screen sections so that they stand out. In other words, these components wouldn't necessarily have any styling in a real application since they're used to arrange other components on the screen.

With that said, let's take a look at the components used to create this screen layout:

import React from 'react';...