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React Native StackNavigator example

Simple React Native StackNavigator Tutorial – navigating between screens

Mobile applications often use more than one screen to properly present data. How can we create more than one screen? That’s what StackNavigator is for.

To use navigation between screens, you must install a library called react-navigation in your project folder. You can do it by entering the following commands:

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React Native persist data. Saving and reading data from AsyncStorage


In previous post: React Native editable list I showed, how to edit data of single element on list. The edited data was saved to the component state, which allowed it to be displayed on the screen. However, when you close the application, the data resets and are not saved. How to change that? AsyncStorage will help.

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How to pass data from child component to parent component in React Native?


How to update parent state from child component in React Native ?

Passing data from child component to parent component is easy. When we place child component in parent’s content we must use function (sets in parent component and invoked in child component), which sets data in the parent’s component state, when action is made in child’s component, e.g. by clicking the button. The diagram is as follows:

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