Crafting a Stunning UI for Your React Native App with Magnus UI
When it comes to building a successful app, a great user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) are crucial. With so many alternatives available, getting your app to stand out from the crowd can be a challenge. Fortunately, tools like Magnus UI can help you build stunning UI components for your React Native app quickly and easily.
Building a Two-Screen App with Magnus UI
In this article, we’ll walk you through building two complete screens of an app using Magnus UI. We’ll start with a design from Dribbble, which includes common UI blocks such as a list of course categories, a bottom navigation bar, and a master-detail pattern.
Our Toolkit
Before we dive in, let’s take a look at the tools we’ll be using:
- TypeScript for type safety and better code maintainability
- Expo for managing React Native projects
- React Navigation for master-detail navigation between screens
- Magnus UI for building UI components
- UnDraw for illustrations
Scaffolding Our React Native App
To get started, we’ll use the Expo CLI to create a new project with the tabs template. We’ll then install Magnus UI and configure it with some basic details.
Styling Our Bottom Tabs
Next, we’ll style our bottom tabs to match the design. We’ll add some custom styling to make them look more like the design, including configuring the tab icons and colors.
Configuring Magnus UI
Now it’s time to focus on building our page content with Magnus UI. We’ll configure Magnus UI with some basic details, including defining a custom theme with our primary color.
Building Our Home Screen UI
With Magnus UI configured, we can start building our home screen UI. We’ll use Magnus UI components to create a scrollable list of course categories, complete with images and text content.
Building Our Detail Page UI
Next, we’ll build our detail page UI, which will include dynamic content based on the selected category. We’ll use Magnus UI components to create a stunning detail page with ratings, subscribers, and a list of course videos.
Replacing the Bottom Tab on the Detail Screen
Finally, we’ll replace the bottom tab on the detail screen with an action button. This requires some rewiring of the navigators, but the end result is worth it.
Conclusion
Throughout this article, we’ve seen how easy UI building becomes with Magnus UI. With its intuitive utility props and stunning components, Magnus UI makes it easy to build beautiful UIs for your React Native app.