This weeks project was working with React Native, i wanted to focus mostly on learning as much as possible about how some areas worked, rather than creating a conceptually interesting app. I "translated" the functionality of last weeks movies project to React Native. The areas i focused on were:

• implementing React Navigation to be able to move and pass props between several screens
• working with styled components
• importing custom fonts with expo-fonts
• implementing API-fetch, useState and useEffect

My experience is that it is a bit of a threshold getting started with React Native, it is like everything works a little bit different than it does in React, and the error messages and feedback from the system is a bit more fuzzy. There has been a lot of head-scratching and i have gotten stuck on a lot of things but ive been able to solve most of the issues. And slowly I've started becoming really fond of working with React Native, so i hope to be able to continue digging here.

I tried putting the entire repo as a "snack" on expo, but it seems like snack doesn't work with styled components? At least that is the error messages I'm getting. https://snack.expo.io/@lars-soderman/c42867

I have also expo-published the app: https://expo.io/@lars-soderman/project-native-app-movies

If i had more time i would have

• Made the app look nicer and added more features
• Implemented something that interacts with the sensors on the phone
• Worked more with state and props to understand that better, perhaps by making an expanding menu or nav bar
• Implement inputs and interactivity

Anyway, super fun week and I learned lots!