Make an Image Clickable in React Native

Trying to make an image clickable in React Native? It was one of the harder things for me to do when I started off so I thought I’d do a quick write up. My Setup MacOS Big Sur Webstorm 2020.2.3 Starting a New React Native Project Click React Native under new project in Webstorm. This …

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“RNGADBannerView” was not found in the UIManager.

Happen to be getting the Invariant Violation: requireNativeComponent: “RNGADBannerView” was not found in the UIManager error? Did you use the really useful react-native-admob lib at some point, remove it, but are still getting this weird error? Maybe you’re using another lib, removed it, and are getting a similar error? I spent nearly three full days …

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Vertically and Horizontally Center Text in React Native

I recently spent quite some time trying to vertically and horizontally center text in React Native. I tried all sorts of combinations of align, alignContent, alignSelf, etc but couldn’t get my text horizontally and vertically centered. I mean this is probably because I’m React Native newb but stilllll. I’m actually quite surprised how bare the …

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Moomosa

Hey everybody! I thought I’d do a quick intro on an app I started working on. Drum roll please… Moomosa! It’s a React-Native application that uses Firebase as a database at the moment (more on this later). That database is managed with a React application I developed to add, delete, and approve new content. I …

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