Former versions of SDK/NDK for Windows required a Cygwin environment, a Linux-like environment for Windows, to be installed. Up-to-date versions of these tools can run natively on Windows without any intermediate layer. We will focus on the Cygwin-less environment and will do all of the development without IDE. You heard it right, we will just use the command line. All the examples in this book were written and debugged on a Windows PC.
React Native is a popular framework that helps in creating native apps and software without compromising the user experience. It is a combination of native development with React, which is one of the best JavaScript library that can build error-less user interfaces to developing a new project from scratch.