Update: This tutorial is outdated. I suggest you check out the authentication flow from the official documentation. While creating an authentication flow we usually don’t want the screens to navigate back. In such situations, we want a navigator which resets the navigation history while navigating. In this blog post, I will show you how to…
By default, the behavior of the FlatList component of react native is to scroll. But, in some unusual situations, you may want to disable scrolling in react native FlatList. This blog post goes through how to disable scrolling in FlatList. As you know, FlatList inherits the props of the ScrollView component. Hence you can use…
I created a new react native (v60.0) project and tried running by using command react-native run-android but faced Error: spawn vscode ENOENT error in the terminal as shown in the screenshot given below. I was running commands through the terminal of my IDE Visual Studio Code. In order to solve this react native issue, I…
Yesterday, I created a new react native project with the latest react native version 0.60 and tried to open it in my Android Studio but I got a response saying you can’t open the project with the current version of Android Studio. So, I decided to update my Android Studio to the latest version –…
In this blog post, I will show you how to add an icon button in Flutter. Before proceeding you should know what an icon button is. An Icon button is an icon that reacts to touches by filling the color. It is included in the Material widget. Using the IconButton widget you can create a…
Some famous apps out there such as Instagram are restricted to portrait orientation. You may also want your react native app to support portrait orientation only. By default, react native works on both orientations- portrait and landscape. Let’s check how to restrict the app to portrait in react native. To make the app portrait only…
The Floating Action Button, fab, is an important component of the material design user interface. It is a circular button that usually floats above the right bottom of the screen. A fab is used for triggering primary actions such as create, edit, etc. In this blog post, let’s learn how to create a floating action…
There are tons of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets with different dimensions and resolutions. Hence, sometimes it is important for developers to identify the device. In this blog post, I will tell you how to detect whether a device is a tablet or not in React Native. I prefer to use react native device…
Icons are important aspects of the mobile app user interface. Material icons are those which follow material design guidelines and they can make your app look more beautiful. In this blog post, let’s look at how to add material icons in Flutter. You can show material icons using the Icon widget. You can add an…
Images are one of the most used UI components of a mobile app. In this blog post, let’s learn how to display an image that loads from the internet in Flutter. Flutter has Image widget to display images. The Image widget has multiple constructors such as Image.new, Image.network, Image.file, etc. We use Image.network constructor to…
Update: This is an old post. I have created a new tutorial with typescript. Check out the blog post given here. Navigation is an important aspect of any react native mobile application. While navigating from screen to screen, you may also want to pass data. In this blog post, you can learn how to pass…
Showing alerts for users is an important aspect of a mobile app user interface. In this blog post, I am sharing a Flutter Alert Dialog example with you. The AlertDialog is a material design widget that informs the user about scenarios that need acknowledgment. It’s also very useful in situations that require confirmation from the…