Change background color

[MunazR]

Is there a way to change the background color of the photo view for iOS? Currently it is black.

[diegotsi]

I need to know too. Actually, I'd like to put one loading indicator.How Can i do this?

[MunazR]

I created a fork of the repo with the background color set to white if anybody is interested

https://github.com/MunazR/react-native-photo-view

[GibranPolonsky]

I think this is a great point, we still need this.

[alwx]

Fixed in https://github.com/alwx/react-native-photo-view/commit/848bcdf869fe1c4b06bda502be20f67f4e464eac

[MunazR]

Thank you!

[douglasjunior]

Why was the color changed to white? Most other apps use black. Like Facebook and Whatsapp.

[edwardgalligan]

Fixed

This seems an odd fix. I think the original issue was requesting a configurable background colour, not a global change to a different unconfigurable one.

I came here looking for a way to change it away from black myself, but I do think black is a good default value.

[edwardgalligan]

For anyone finding this issue:

I've patched my own copy of react-native-photo-view by changing the colour in RNPhotoView.m to [UIColor clearColor] - this works best as it allows you to then set any colour on the background of the parent.

[maciekstosio]

How is it now? Because I've got black background, but actually I prefer white one...

[drpiou]

Still cannot change background color for iOS, Android is working fine...

[ben-snaize]

+1 - we need a fix for this.

[SimonErich]

+1

[lucidtheory]

It does work

You need to uninstall the app from your simulator and also in package.json install directly from the github repo

  "dependencies": {
    .....other dependencies
    "react-native-photo-view": "github:alwx/react-native-photo-view",
  },

then reinstall the app on your simulator react-native run-ios (or android)

good to go

[MaheshNandam]

Solved By changing at RNPhotoView.m:

backgroundColor = [UIColor black] to backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

[damrem]

@EsdrasEtrenne 's solution works fine. I did this to "freeze" the version I depend on to today's master :

"react-native-photo-view": "github:alwx/react-native-photo-view#e28f541",

But it would be great to release today's master on npm!

[damrem]

I did PR #172, for release purpose, I increased minor instead of patch because there were other changes since last npm release (1.5.2).