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Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:47:00 +0000

Responsive UI components for web & mobile developers

More efficient than building it yourself or cheap plugins. Better for mobile and more simple than Syncfusion, Kendo UI and similar tools.

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React Native Material Kit

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:29:10 +0000

A set of UI components, in the purpose of introducing Material Design to applications built with React Native, quickly and painlessly.

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UI Kitten 4.0

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:29:06 +0000

React Native framework for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications. Design system based brings your product from MVP to enterprise. Forever Open Source and free!

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React Native Elements

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:29:00 +0000

Cross Platform React Native UI Toolkit

The aim of React Native Elements is to provide an all-in-one UI kit for creating apps in react native. There are many great UI components made by developers all around open source. React Native Elements takes the hassle of assembling these packages together by giving you a ready-made kit with consistent API and look and feel.

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Top 5 best mobile frameworks for 2020

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:02:56 +0000

What is a Mobile App Development Framework?

A mobile app development framework is a library that is designed to help developers in building mobile apps. It basically provides a fundamental structure that not only supports mobile application development, but it also boosts the process while reducing the costs at the same time.

1. React Native

React Native combines the best parts of native development with React, a best-in-class JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
React primitives render to native platform UI, meaning your app uses the same native platform APIs other apps do.
Many platforms, one React. Create platform-specific versions of components so a single codebase can share code across platforms. With React Native, one team can maintain two platforms and share a common technology - React.

2. Flutter

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktopfrom a single codebase.

Fast Development

Paint your app to life in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload. Use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes.

Expressive and Flexible UI

Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. The layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs.

Native Performance

Flutter's widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons, and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart's native compilers. Thus Flutter gives you full native performance on both iOS and Android.

3. Ionic

Ionic Framework is the free, open-source mobile UI toolkit for developing high-quality cross-platform apps for native iOS, Android, and the web - all from a single codebase.
From automated native builds to live updating and CI/CD, Ionic Appflow addresses the entire mobile DevOps lifecycle. Continuously build and ship apps at the speed of development.
Ionic Studio is a powerful, locally-installed, visual development environment that makes it easy to build stunning apps in minutes.

4. Adobe PhoneGap

Building applications for each platform–iPhone, Android, Windows and more–requires different frameworks and languages. PhoneGap solves this by using standards-based web technologies to bridge web applications and mobile devices. Since PhoneGap apps are standards compliant, they're future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve. Read an in-depth post explaining PhoneGap visually.
PhoneGap has been downloaded millions of times and is being used by hundreds of thousands of developers. Thousands of apps built using PhoneGap are available in mobile app stores and directories. Check out some of them here.
The PhoneGap code was contributed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under the name Apache Cordova and graduated to top-level project status in October 2012. Through the ASF, future PhoneGap development will ensure open stewardship of the project. It will always remain free and open source under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

5. Xamarin

Xamarin is a .NET developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. Xamarin supplies add-ins to Microsoft Visual Studio that allows developers to build Android, iOS, and Windows apps within the IDE using code completion and IntelliSense.

Conclusion

Mobile app development frameworks are basically driving tools to build mobile apps. And the above-mentioned 5 frameworks have proved to be the best mobile app development frameworks in the market.
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Free React Native Calendar Picker

Mobile Frameworks — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:30:20 +0000

To use the Calendar Picker Component for React Native you just need to:

npm install --save react-native-calendar-picker

Example Code:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View
} from 'react-native';
import CalendarPicker from 'react-native-calendar-picker';

export default class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      selectedStartDate: null,
    };
    this.onDateChange = this.onDateChange.bind(this);
  }

  onDateChange(date) {
    this.setState({
      selectedStartDate: date,
    });
  }
  render() {
    const { selectedStartDate } = this.state;
    const startDate = selectedStartDate ? selectedStartDate.toString() : '';
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <CalendarPicker
          onDateChange={this.onDateChange}
        />

        <View>
          <Text>SELECTED DATE:{ startDate }</Text>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
    marginTop: 100,
  },
});

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Ionic mobile app builder - Creator by Ionic

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:56:08 +0000

What is a mobile app builder?

An app builder is an online mobile development tool that lets the user bypass the generic mobile app development process and gets the mobile app developed in a short period of time. The interesting part is that it cuts down the time duration of the app development to a whole new level. Normally, a mobile app development process takes weeks. From ideation to wireframing, interface designing to user-experience analysis, testing to finalizing, it involves a hefty process behind a simple mobile app.

Creator by Ionic

Creator is a simple drag-&-drop tool for going from idea to App Store, with just the drag of a mouse.

How to Get Started with Ionic Creator

It’s really easy to start using the Ionic Creator, the first step is to create an account here and then log in.

The best thing about using Creator by Ionic is that it is FREE and they have a nice structured documentation.

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Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Flutter

Mobile Frameworks — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:57:22 +0000

Check the code source of the famous game Tic-Tac-Toe game implemented with flutter.

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Flutter Calculator mobile application

Mobile Frameworks — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:44:07 +0000

This is a simple calculator application built with Flutter.

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Microcharts - Xamarin charts

Mobile Frameworks — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:06:27 +0000

Microcharts is an extremely simple charting library for a wide range of platforms, with shared code and rendering for all of them!

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Ionic 2 Restaurant App

Mobile Frameworks — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:28:53 +0000

A simple restaurant app which is developed on Ionic 2 & Angular 2

Here are the main screens of the app:

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Lottie for React Native, iOS, and Android

Mobile Frameworks — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:44:08 +0000

Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with the body moving and renders them natively on mobile! For the first time, designers can create and ship beautiful animations without an engineer painstakingly recreating it by hand.

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