Free online courseBuild Your First Universal React Native App

Course Description

Creating an app that feels at home on iOS, Android, and the web can seem overwhelming until you follow a clear, hands-on path. This free online course guides you through building your first universal React Native app with Expo, focusing on practical skills you can reuse in real projects. You will start from a clean setup, run the development server, and test instantly on your own device, making progress fast while learning the workflow used by modern app teams.

As you build, you will move from a basic project to an app with real structure and navigation using Expo Router. You will learn how a well-organized routing system helps you scale screens without turning the codebase into a maze, and how to design UI in a way that stays consistent across platforms. Along the way, you will create reusable components to keep your interface maintainable, easier to update, and more professional-looking as the app grows.

The course also covers the features that make apps feel truly native: selecting images from the device media library, presenting tools inside smooth modals, and adding gesture interactions for more intuitive controls. You will learn the required setup for gesture handling so your interactions work reliably, and you will implement screenshot capture and saving so users can export results directly to their photo library. Because universal apps need smart platform awareness, you will also address differences between mobile and web, including alternative approaches when a library does not support the browser environment.

To round things out, you will polish the user experience by configuring the status bar and splash screen, and understand what steps are necessary after changing configuration settings so your updates actually appear. By the end, you will have a complete foundation for building universal apps and the confidence to start new projects, extend features, and share a portfolio-ready result.