Using External Components and Libraries
Explore how to incorporate external components and libraries in React Native Expo applications. Understand the practical use of the expo-speech package to implement text-to-speech, including managing state with hooks and handling user input. Develop the skills to leverage the React Native community's libraries to add features efficiently.
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The major benefit to using React Native is the growing community of developers and the abundance of libraries and external components they have made.
Often, a feature can be implemented using a preexisting library.
Example
We’ll use the Speech library provided by Expo to implement text to speech in our app.
Our app will have a simple text ...