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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>React Native is a native development framework for developing native mobile apps. React Native is a JavaScript framework and is used by many developers. For developing good quality applications, having in-depth technical as well as fundamental knowledge is not enough. But a <a href="https://aglowiditsolutions.com/hire-react-native-developers/">Certified react native developer</a> will have in-depth knowledge about the stack ecosystem (includes tools and libraries) along with technical and fundamental knowledge. Based on the requirements, expert developers can choose the right set of tools and libraries only if they have in-depth knowledge about libraries. Queries related to libraries arise later when mobile app development is in process. Let’s look at some widely used react to native libraries.</p><p><strong>NativeBase:</strong> NativeBase is one of the essential component frameworks in react native library, mainly focused on creating the design, look, and feel of the UI. This component is used for designing the User Interface of any mobile application. Additionally, it also offers rich out of the box components with use cases and basic support for all the components. Based on the mobile operating system your web is being designed for, it offers</p><ul><li>Custom Icon</li><li>Custom back button</li><li>Option to add Placeholder button</li><li>Customer header</li></ul><p>According to <a href="https://medium.com/devtechtoday/top-10-react-native-component-libraries-you-should-know-in-2020-93ff7dee5d22">Medium</a> NativeBase component library has over.</p><p>GitHub 10Kstars.</p><figure><img alt="Nativebase" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/447/1*qR_dmXJeMp9ia9gzdnWtXQ.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://nativebase.io/">Nativebase</a></p><p><strong>React Native Elements:</strong> This is a cross-platform framework that makes it possible to access different open sources UI components in one place. On Github, React Native Elements has 17k stars. This offers the functionality of using premade packages developed by app developers. React Native Elements includes components like badge, divider, overlay, and pricing.</p><figure><img alt="React Native Elements Image" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/602/1*TqzFr7hbO11DAXGV6KwtvQ.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements">Github</a></p><p><strong>Shoutem: </strong>Shoutem is a widely used app development framework that helps to develop native apps using javascript and react-native. It consists of more than 40 full-featured extensions that can be used in app development, and it saves time for developers by automatically adding parts of the app. The Extensions consist of photo and video galleries, events, restaurant menus, and many more, which can be integrated into the app without any cost. On GitHub, it has 3.5k stars. It also provides back end integrations like:</p><ul><li>Authentication</li><li>Push Notifications</li><li>RSS feeds</li><li>Google Analytics.</li><li>Shopify</li></ul><figure><img alt="Shoutem Image" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/557/1*mohW2B0Oeus2C6xL8dUAiQ.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://shoutem.github.io/docs/ui-toolkit/introduction">GitHub</a></p><p><strong>UI Kitten</strong>: UI kitten is a React Native implementation of Eva design System. UI Kitten takes care of visual appearance while developers focus on the logic of the app. Moreover, if developers wish to change the app’s theme, they can change the theme of the app during run time. UI kitten has 6000+ Github stars.</p><figure><img alt="UI Kitten module" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/410/1*_BjNLPPJLShu0DjA61ejkw.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://akveo.github.io/react-native-ui-kitten/">GitHub</a></p><p><strong>React Native Material Kit</strong>: This component is one of the most popular frameworks which consists of useful UI themes and components like buttons, cards which can be used to customize as per the requirement. React Native Material Kit has 4500+ GitHub stars.</p><figure><img alt="React native material kit consisting of buttons, text and colours." src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/602/1*XeHhEPQ7tAFnabBupm3KPw.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://rnmk.xinthink.com/">rnmk</a></p><p><strong>Lottie React Native</strong>: This famous component library is from Airbnb. Expert react native Developers can use this component to ad different animations in their app without the hassle of creating animations again and again. Using Lottie react native, developers can transform animations created in Adobe After Effects into the format suitable to their web application. Lottie React Native has more than 12k stars on GitHub. Plugins and libraries of Lottie React Native are free to use.</p><figure><img alt="Lottie React Native Image" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/602/1*lwY32CmIAy4bWM-LYtIxZA.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/">Airbnb</a></p><p><strong>React Native Vector Icons:</strong> With over 30000 icons, this is your go to the library for getting icons for your every need. Additionally, this library’s icons can be updated like changing style, extending the size, and much more to meet your requirements. It is a perfect fit for navbars, buttons, and logos with the support for Toolbar Android &amp; Tab Bar and multi-style font &amp; image source.</p><figure><img alt="React native Vector Icons" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/593/1*d-MjMvlajSWuRguvc52ASw.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-vector-icons">npjms</a></p><p><strong>React Native Mapview: </strong>Using this component developer can integrate map components in android or iOS devices. It allow API to control the map features. Mapview provides different customisation options like animating and zooming in the location as per the requirement. Being one of the most important components with such a great feature have made it possible for Mapview to gain more than 10K stars on GitHub.</p><figure><img alt="React Native Mapview Image" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/281/1*U2Ex7G-AeH8ZLrWPwhITTw.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-mapview">npmjs</a></p><p><strong>React Native Gifted Chat: </strong>This library component allows to include chat component with different functions. It also allows for various customizations option. Functions like a copy to the clipboard or view earlier messages can be achieved using this library component. React Native Gifted Chat has over 8K stars on GitHub.</p><figure><img alt="React Native Gifted Chat image" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/405/1*eLMr3l1p1fFyHeBLU1IYyg.png" /></figure><p>Image Credit: <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-gifted-chat">npmjs</a></p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>These are some of the most popular and widely used components of React Native framework. You can choose different react native component that meets your requirement.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=bc35c01969b5" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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