Even if by the end of this tutorial React Native fails to impress you, you’ll still end up having a really cool wallpaper app. Believe me, I have found myself using this app more than I initially thought. So, unlike some other tutorials where you build counters and barely use them, in this tutorial, together we’ll build ourselves an app that will pull random stunning wallpapers from Unsplash, display them in an aesthetically pleasing way, and allow you to save wallpapers of your choice to the Camera Roll.

On the desktop, Unsplash is the one-stop shop for all my wallpaper needs.

I’ve never had luck finding the perfect wallpaper app for my iPhone in the App store. Even if you’re not, React luckily happens to be very easy to wrap your head around. React Native is so similar to React (duh!), you’ll feel right at home if you’re already a React developer. Why not? I was already using React and loving it.

Reading such a bold assertion made me go ahead and give React Native a shot. Server-Side Rendering With React, Node And Express.Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App.What? Are you, like… serious? Further Reading on SmashingMag: Until I read this article from Chalk + Chisel, the following line in particular: Fast-forward a couple of months, and I’m confident enough to say I may never write an iOS app in Objective-C or Swift again. We’ve seen frameworks like Ionic and PhoneGap take on the challenge, and to some extent succeed in gaining a fair amount of developer and community support. The idea of building mobile apps with JavaScript is not new. I always thought, why not just learn Swift/Objective-C or Java and build real apps? That definitely requires a significant amount of learning, but isn’t that what we developers do and should be good at? Quickly learn new languages and frameworks? What’s the point, then? For me, the advantages never outweighed the doubts. These frameworks and the whole idea of building mobile apps with JavaScript never appealed to me, though.

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