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Getting Started with Mobile App Development with React Native

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Explore the essential React Native Text component, including how to implement and nest it, apply various style properties such as color and font, and handle user interaction events with onPress. This lesson helps you understand text layout options and how to truncate text using numberOfLines, equipping you to effectively display and control text in your mobile app.

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The Text component is one of the most fundamental components of React Native. It can be used anywhere inside the application to display text. It is important to note that we cannot place text anywhere in JSX. It must be wrapped inside the <Text> component. In React Native, the Text component is the only method for displaying text.

Usage

To implement and use the Text component, we first have to import it from the react-native library.

JavaScript (JSX)
import { Text } from 'react-native';

Once the Text component has been imported, we can use it inside our application using the <Text></Text> tag.

JavaScript (JSX)
import React from 'react';
import { Text } from 'react-native';
const App = () => {
  return (
    <Text>
      {/* Text goes here */}
    </Text>
  );
}
export default App;

Nesting the Text component

The Text component can be nested inside other Text components. This allows developers to apply different styles and formatting to different parts of the text. In the code snippet below, we use nested Text components to apply different color styling to ...