Stage 2 · Lesson 3 of 10
View, Text, Image, Pressable and ScrollView
draws real native views, not , so there are no divs or spans. Learn the . View is the basic box.
Text is the only component that can show text, and a bare string outside it is an error. Image shows local or remote images. Pressable handles taps and can change style while pressed.
ScrollView scrolls content that is a little taller than the screen. Styles are objects, usually made with StyleSheet.create. They use camelCase names and plain numbers with no units, measured in . Remote images need a width and height.
Common trapexpecting web behaviour: styles do not cascade from a View to the Text inside it, and there is no CSS file.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- GuideFreeExpo Documentation
Expo
The Expo tutorial builds a small app you run on your own phone
- GuideFreeReact Documentation
Meta
"Describing the UI" and "Adding interactivity" cover the React you need