How to use styled-components with React Native

This guide provides an in-depth look at using the styled-components library with React Native, highlighting the benefits of a CSS-in-JS approach over the default StyleSheet API. Styled-components allow developers to define UI components and styles within a single file, enhancing code readability and maintainability, especially for those with a web development background accustomed to plain CSS conventions. The guide covers the installation and use of styled-components, showing how to create custom components with dynamic styling using props, and demonstrates building a React Native app screen from scratch with styled-components, including components like SafeAreaView, Image, and TextInput. It also discusses considerations such as potential impacts on app performance and readability due to the CSS-in-JS approach, and concludes with an encouragement to try styled-components in future projects, providing a GitHub repository for the full source code.