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React Native track player: A complete guide

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Shalitha Suranga
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React Native app development often involves creating music players with playlist capabilities, which can be efficiently achieved using the react-native-track-player library. This library offers developer-friendly APIs and features such as player state management, simple playlist management, and native performance across Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. It allows developers to build music apps with capabilities like adding, removing, shuffling, and re-ordering tracks in a playlist, as well as handling playback events and background mode operations. The tutorial demonstrates the integration and use of react-native-track-player to create a music player app with a visible playlist, showcasing features like managing the playlist, visualizing playback state, and handling both in-app and remote events. By leveraging this library, developers can create performant and feature-rich music apps without the overhead of building complex playlist management systems from scratch, ensuring a smooth user experience even when the app runs in the background.