React Native Card View using react-native-paper

Here is an example of React Native Card View using react-native-paper. If you want to explore some more options to make a Card View you can visit our previous post on React Native Card View.

For this example, we are using Card component provided by react-native-paper.  So let’s get started.

To Make a React Native App

Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run

npm install -g react-native-cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

react-native init ProjectName

This will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.

Installation of Dependency

Open the terminal and jump into your project using.

To use Card we need to install react-native-paper package. To install this run the following command.

This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory, You can find the directory in node_module directory named react-native-paper.

–save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-paper dependancy in your package.json file.

Dependency Version for this Example used is

Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.

App.js

To Run the React Native App

Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.

cd ProjectName

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running

react-native run-ios (macOS only).

That was the React Native Card View using react-native-paper. If you have any doubt or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!

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