I've been looking for a long time to convert my react native svg components to a svg file which I can use in other applications and PDF generation.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks! 🙏
I tried to make an svg string by rendering a static markup, but it includes react native svg specific components making it useless in other applications.
I am trying to print/save as PDF a React Native screen from my application. Is there any Node dependency that can be used for this? Another alternative would be to convert React Native component to HTML and then save it as PDF, but I could not find any library to convert from React Native to PDF.
Thank you!
I'm creating a vue native app but the input text looks like an input text on HTML. I thought vue-native would create a native input with native styles per device.
Do I forget something?
I found https://nativebase.io/ which seems to be the solution I need. Since I'm new on this native apps, is this library the way to implement native styles per device?
While react-native renders native views, it doesn't take native (platform and os-version-specific) styles to apply to them. These would look different on each platform and version of the device, and also be impossible to style from react-native. There are some components that look like native ones (e.g. Button, Switch) but they are also styled from react-native so that you can override any styles you want
So yes, the only way to make react-native views look like native ones is to style them accordingly, and that's what libraries like nativebase do
I'm trying to understand how I can do a signature capture in React Native. My App is created with create-react-native-app and Expo and I'd prefer to not have to eject the app to get this functionality to work.
Would it be possible to wrap something like this in a webview? https://github.com/szimek/signature_pad
I've also looked at this project, https://github.com/RepairShopr/react-native-signature-capture but it requires me to eject the app and use react-native link.
Looking for any advice or suggestions on how to implement this feature while keeping my project as straightforward as possible (ideally, using create-react-native-app, but if this isn't possible could someone please explain to me why?)
The way React Native works is that each component available in React Native maps to a native component in the underlying platform.
ie. a <Image /> is an ImageView in Android and a UIImageView.h in iOS.
The Javascript code itself runs in a Javascript thread on each platform and as you use Components in React Native, there's a translation layer that passes information from JS into the React Native bridge that then results in corresponding native components being created.
By default, React Native has included the following components: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/components-and-apis.html#basic-components which means that only those components come out-of-the-box in React Native. If you want other components, then you have 2 options, either create a "composite" component in which your JS component is written into other JS components or, if your feature needs a native component not yet exposed by React Native, write your own "native" component to expose certain native functionality to your React Native code.
The way Expo works is that they have wrapped React Native and a handful of 3rd party components and built it within their application. The reason why you can't use a 3rd party native component they don't support is because when that component is used, the app itself doesn't have translation code to go from JS to a native Android/iOS view.
So, to do what you're asking, you'd need to find either a "native" drawing component that Expo has included in their platform/app. OR you need to find a "composite" drawing component that is built with other default React Native components (or other components Expo supports).
ie. On Android, I might build this with a Canvas view, but from what I can tell React Native doesn't support that object natively, so I would probably write this myself, etc.
It's hard for Expo to support every 3rd party "native" component out there because React Native is open source and it iterates so fast that most community-built components aren't always up to date or they might conflict with one another.
I am using react-native-signature-capture.
Working properly on both Android and iOS.
I know it's been a while, but there is an interesting article here: https://blog.expo.io/drawing-signatures-with-expo-25d1629ca1ac
Wait, but how?
Using “expo-pixi”, you can add a component that lets you choose your brush’s color, thickness, and opacity. Then when your user lifts her finger, you get a callback. From there you can take a screenshot of the transparent view or get the raw point data if that’s what you’re looking for.
Since React Native webview components is only support iOS, I wonder what other options are available to parse markdown strings for android. Anyone had worked with markdown in React Native for Android app?
See if this solves the problem: https://github.com/lwansbrough/react-native-markdown
I recommend react-native-markdown-view which we're using at 2minute.com.
It's the only RN Markdown lib I found that properly renders a list. It's also the only one to have merged a pull request in the last month.
Alternatives: I've tried others in some depth but they can't do lists properly. react-native-simple-markdown renders the list bullet in the middle instead of at the top of the list item, and the styling was also bugged. react-native-markdown-renderer renders lists off the right side of the screen. react-native-markdown hasn't been touched in 3 years so I skipped that one.