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Native Bridging in React Native

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So far, you have learned how to build applications using modules and APIs available out of the box with React Native. There are times, however, when an application has to access a native iOS or Android API and its corresponding React Native module is not yet available. Perhaps you will have to reuse some existing bespoke Swift, Kotlin, or Objective-C code with your React Native application. In such scenarios we create something called Native modules, which allow us to write code in the native language of a platform. This chapter covers the following topics:

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© 2019 Akshat Paul and Abhishek Nalwaya

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Paul, A., Nalwaya, A. (2019). Native Bridging in React Native. In: React Native for Mobile Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4454-8_7

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