IBM
Developing Mobile Apps with React Native Specialization
IBM

Developing Mobile Apps with React Native Specialization

Build job-ready React Native skills employers need. Add JavaScript, React, and React Native to your resume in less than 3 months and power up your mobile app development career!

IBM Skills Network Team
Richa Arora
Skill-Up EdTech Team

Instructors: IBM Skills Network Team +3 more

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Highly sought-after, job-ready skills in React Native employers need to meet the increase in demand for mobile apps.

  • JavaScript essentials, ES6 features, and core data structures, plus hands-on DOM manipulation and AJAX techniques.

  • How to build interactive front-end interfaces using React components and hooks.

  • How to create and manage Android and iOS mobile apps with React Native, focusing on state management.

Skills you'll gain

  • Category: Ajax
  • Category: Android Development
  • Category: Web Applications
  • Category: React Redux
  • Category: Data Structures
  • Category: Flutter (Software)
  • Category: Mobile Development
  • Category: UI Components
  • Category: Debugging
  • Category: Back-End Web Development
  • Category: Cross Platform Development
  • Category: Apple iOS

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Specialization - 5 course series

What you'll learn

  • Describe JavaScript development concepts, list ES6 features, outline data structures, and explore arrays, DOM, AJAX, and debugging techniques.

  • Explore handling errors and exceptions, functions and events, apply string manipulation and error-handing techniques, and traverse the DOM.

  • Compare functions, values, reference types, and strategies in promises and async/await, and discuss modifying the appearance of DOM elements.

  • Employ JavaScript functions, services, tools, and libraries to create and style navigation and pages, and AJAX to fetch and display data from APIs.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: React.js
Category: React Redux
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Category: Data Structures
Category: Web Development
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: UI Components
Category: JavaScript Frameworks
Category: Web Applications
Category: Full-Stack Web Development
Category: JavaScript

What you'll learn

  • Develop interactive user interfaces (UIs) and web applications using JavaScript technologies including React, JSX, and ES6.

  • Build dynamic front-end applications quickly and easily with reusable React components.

  • Employ various React concepts and features, including props, states, hooks, forms, and Redux.

  • Demonstrate your React skills by building several front-end applications such as a shopping cart.

Skills you'll gain

Category: GitHub
Category: Software Development
Category: Figma (Design Software)
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: UI Components
Category: React Native
Category: Android Development
Category: User Story
Category: Data Storage
Category: Mobile Development
Category: iOS Development
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Flutter (Software)
Category: Application Deployment

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills that employers are looking for by using React Native for mobile app development

  • How to use the features of React DevTools supported by a good understanding of the key components and concepts of React Native

  • How to apply React Native stylesheets, layouts, events, and props to develop cross-platform mobile apps

  • Hands-on practice developing apps with Expo, plus testing and publishing apps by applying app debugging and publishing concepts

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Development
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Git (Version Control System)
Category: Web Applications
Category: Ajax
Category: Javascript
Category: Scripting
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Debugging
Category: Json
Category: Web Development
Category: Data Structures
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: HTML and CSS

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready mobile app back-end services skills employers look for in less than one month

  • How to apply user interface principles to create intuitive, visually appealing mobile apps and integrate notifications to enhance user engagement.

  • How to publish your app in marketplaces and implement marketing strategies.

  • How to enhance mobile apps with databases like SQLite and cloud services like Firebase.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Development
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: React Redux
Category: Software Testing
Category: Data Validation
Category: UI Components
Category: Data Storage Technologies
Category: React Native
Category: Android Development
Category: Development Environment
Category: Cross Platform Development
Category: Mobile Development
Category: Debugging
Category: iOS Development

What you'll learn

  • Create a GitHub repository, develop user stories to guide development tasks, and design UX and UI using Figma for a mobile app.

  • Implement login and registration, develop a home screen with navigation, and a detail screen for item-specific info using Flutter or React Native.

  • Implement local storage for data persistence and integrate external APIs to fetch and display real-time data using Flutter or React Native.

  • Add settings for user customization and notification features to enhance engagement, and explore publishing and marketing strategies for your app.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Databases
Category: Product Support
Category: Marketing Strategies
Category: Operational Databases
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: UI Components
Category: React Native
Category: Android Development
Category: Database Development
Category: Application Development
Category: Apple iOS
Category: Back-End Web Development
Category: Mobile Development
Category: iOS Development
Category: Flutter (Software)
Category: Application Deployment

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Instructors

IBM Skills Network Team
IBM Skills Network Team
IBM
83 Courses1,295,941 learners
Richa Arora
Richa Arora
IBM
10 Courses102,534 learners

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