Employing SVGs in React Native with Expo: Key Steps

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Using SVGs in React Native Development with Expo: Step-by-step Guidance

Why is the image format SVG so popular amongst app developers these days? Well, SVGs come with a wide range of capabilities and have a lot to offer to modern-day mobile & web development projects. Developers can create & edit SVG files effortlessly using any text editor and manipulate the properties using CSS. Besides, you can scale an SVG to any resolution based on your requirements. The resolutions do not affect the size of files owing to the nature of SVGs. As a result, the size of the files is quite small as compared to pixel- based ones. Moreover, an SVG is SEO friendly as its language format is based on XML markup. This enables one to embed descriptions or keywords directly into the image. Furthermore, developers can easily customize, edit, and animate SVG files as per the need. This post guides you through the right methodology for using SVGs for React Native with Expo. Here, we have selected React Native as it is one of the most widely used technologies for developing mobile & web apps. This write-up will provide you with thorough insights on how to employ SVGs in React Native app development projects. What are SVGs? Scalable Vector Graphics, commonly known as SVGs is an image format that allows you to resize and stretch images as per the need without affecting the quality or performance of images. SVGs prove to be an effective way of presenting visual elements like icons. Employing SVGs on the web is a simple process; developers simply need to copy an SVG and then embed it inline into an HTML file. This method is effective as browsers know how an SVG can be parsed and presented. However, employing SVGs becomes difficult when it comes to mobile apps. This is because Expo doesn’t understand how SVGs can be processed & parsed right away on iOS Copyright © Biz4Solutions LLC. All Rights Reserved Biz4solutions Logo and designs are trademarks of Biz4Solutions LLC. All trademarks and logos referenced herein are the properties of their respective owners.


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