How to animate header to show based on scrolling in react native? - react-native

Question

So Ideally, When i scroll down, I want the header to disappear(slide down) and when I scroll up I want it to show (slide up). Idc where im at in the page. I just want the animation to fire when those 2 events occur. I see some apps have this but I can't think of how to replicate it. please help me set a basis for this

Answer 1

You can use Animated.FlatList or Animated.ScrollView to make the scroll view, and attach a callback to listen onScroll event when it is changed. Then, using interpolation to map value between y-axis and opacity.
searchBarOpacityAnim is a component's state. By using Animated.event, the state will be updated when a callback is called. Also, don't forget to set useNativeDriver to be true. I've attached the link to document below about why you have to set it.
<Animated.FlatList
...
onScroll={Animated.event(
[{ nativeEvent: { contentOffset: { y: searchBarOpacityAnim } } }],
{ useNativeDriver: true },
)}
...
/>
Then, use Animated.View wraps your component which you want to animate it. Use .interpolate to map value between the state and component's opacity like the example below...
<Animated.View
style={{
opacity: searchBarOpacityAnim.interpolate({
inputRange: [213, 215],
outputRange: [0, 1],
}),
}}
>
<SearchBar />
</Animated.View>
You can read more information about useNativeDriver, .interpolate, and Animated.event here.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/animated#using-the-native-driver
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/animations#interpolation
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/animated#handling-gestures-and-other-events

Answer 2

You can use Animated from 'react-native'
here an example changing the Topbar height:
import { Animated } from 'react-native';
define maxHeight and minHeight topbar
const HEADER_MAX_HEIGHT = 120;
const HEADER_MIN_HEIGHT = 48;
initialize a variable with the scrollY value
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
scrollY: new Animated.Value(
Platform.OS === 'ios' ? -HEADER_MAX_HEIGHT : 0,
),
};
}
on render you can interpolate a value acording the scrollY Value
render() {
const { scrollY } = this.state;
// this will set a height for topbar
const headerHeight = scrollY.interpolate({
inputRange: [0, HEADER_MAX_HEIGHT - HEADER_MIN_HEIGHT],
outputRange: [HEADER_MAX_HEIGHT, HEADER_MIN_HEIGHT],
extrapolate: 'clamp',
});
// obs: the inputRange is the scrollY value, (starts on 0)
// and can go until (HEADER_MAX_HEIGHT - HEADER_MIN_HEIGHT)
// outputRange is the height that will set on topbar
// obs: you must add a onScroll function on a scrollView like below:
return (
<View>
<Animated.View style={{
position: 'absolute',
top: 0,
left: 0,
right: 0,
backgroundColor: '#2e4265',
height: headerHeight,
zIndex: 1,
flexDirection: 'row',
justifyContent: 'flex-start',
}}>
<Text>{title}</Text>
</Animated.View>
<ScrollView
style={{ flex: 1 }}
scrollEventThrottle={16}
onScroll={Animated.event(
[{ nativeEvent: { contentOffset: { y: this.state.scrollY } } }],
)}>
<View style={{ height: 1000 }} />
</ScrollView>
</View>
);
}