A simple and customizable React Native component that implements an animated bottom tab bar for React Navigation v6.
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In order to use the component, you need to have React Navigation v6 installed. You also need styled-components.
If using yarn
yarn add react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar
If using npm
npm install react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar
If you updated the package to a new version, don't forget to run npm run start -- --reset-cache
to have the latest version.
// Javascript
import { AnimatedTabBarNavigator } from "react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar";
// Typescript
import {
AnimatedTabBarNavigator,
DotSize, // optional
TabElementDisplayOptions, // optional
TabButtonLayout, // optional
IAppearanceOptions // optional
} from 'react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar'
Then create a navigator using the navigation builder that you imported, and create your navigation! Look at the example below.
...
const Tabs = AnimatedTabBarNavigator();
export default () => (
<Tabs.Navigator
// default configuration from React Navigation
tabBarOptions={{
activeTintColor: "#2F7C6E",
inactiveTintColor: "#222222"
}}
>
// Home Screen
<Tabs.Screen name="Home" component={Home} />
// Other screens go here.
...
</Tabs.Navigator>
)
If you'd like to add icons to your Bottom Navigation you can use react-native-vector-icons. Look at an example of how to add icons to your tab bar.
Example
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Feather';
...
export default () =>
<Tabs.Navigator
tabBarOptions={{
activeTintColor: "#2F7C6E",
inactiveTintColor: "#222222"
}}
>
<Tabs.Screen
name="Home"
component={Home}
options={{
tabBarIcon: ({ focused, color, size }) => (
<Icon
name="Home"
size={size ? size : 24}
color={focused ? color : "#222222"}
focused={focused}
color={color}
/>
)
}}
/>
</Tabs.Navigator>
...
The navigation component takes two main props which help you customize your navigation. tabBarOptions
is the default prop from React Navigation which you can use to specify different tint colors and more (see available options below). for all the details. The second prop is appearance
. Here you'll be able to adjust several properties of the tab bar as you wish. See the available properties above.
tabBarOptions
activeTintColor
- Label and icon color of the active tab item.inactiveTintColor
- Label and icon color of the inactive tab item.activeBackgroundColor
- Background color of the active tab item.tabStyle
- Style object for the tab wrapper (Note! it overrides the properties in appearance
prop (see below).labelStyle
- Style object for the tab label text.appearance
β
topPadding
(default: 20) - Space between the tab button and the wrapper (top)
β
horizontalPadding
(default: 20) - Vertical space between for the tab buttons
β
tabBarBackground
(default: "white") - Background color for the wrapper that contains the navigation tabs
β
shadow
(default: true) - If set to true, the wrapper has a light shadow
β
activeTabBackgrounds
- Array of hex colours for the background of each tab when active. (if not specified, falls back to the activeBackgroundColor
from tabBarOptions
)
β
activeColors
- Array of hex colours for the tint of each tab when active. (if not specified, falls back to the activeTintColor
from tabBarOptions
)
β
floating
(default: false) - If set to true, the nav bar will float on top of the current screen. Look at examples above.
β
whenActiveShow
(default: "both") Configure the appearance of the active tab. Available values both
, label-only
, icon-only
.
β
whenInactiveShow
(default: "icon-only") Configure the appearance of the inactive tabs. Available values both
, label-only
, icon-only
.
β
tabButtonLayout
(default: "horizontal") Configure the layout of the tab button. Available values vertical
, horizontal
.
β
dotCornerRadius
(default: 100) Corner radius for the active background / dot.
β
dotSize
(default: "medium") Size of dot for the active tab. Available values small
, medium
, large
.
Note! Make sure you reload your view after changing the props. The animation might be stuck while changing them dynamically.
tabStyle
object when I set paddingTop
. Solution: You must provide the same value for paddingTop
in both tabStyle
object and topPadding
property from appearance
. This is due to the fact that the dot / active background uses position absolute, and the parent's padding top does not affect it.Pull requests are always welcome! Feel free to open a new GitHub issue for any changes that can be made.
If you raise an issue, please add proper steps to reproduce it and proper logs. Thanks!
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