React Native Tab Bar white space under tabs - react-native

Question

I am using a tab bar navigator with SafeAreaView.
If I comment out the tab bar nav the parent view covers the entire screen. However when I add a Tab bar it shows a small white view under the tab bar section.
const App = () => {
return (
<SafeAreaView style={styles.droidSafeArea}>
<View style={{ backgroundColor: "red", flex: 1 }}>
<TabNavigator key="MainTabNav" />
</View>
</SafeAreaView>
);
};
export default App;
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
droidSafeArea: {
flex: 1,
backgroundColor: "#2F3438",
}
});

Answer 1

Try this
screenOptions={{
tabBarStyle: {
paddingBottom:0,
},
}}

Answer 2

Please use the tab bar outside the safeAreaView else the safe area view will calculate the notch and will render the tab bar above the notch.
2.If you are using tab bar inside the safe area view use the force inset property of safe area view : <SafeAreaView forceInset = {bottom : 'never} this will make the safeareaview collide with bottom area and your tab bar will render properly.
Note : by using this method you would have to be a bit accurate in providing the styles.
const App = () => {
return (
<SafeAreaView style={styles.droidSafeArea} forceInset = {bottom : 'never'}>
<View style={{ backgroundColor: "red", flex: 1 }}>
<TabNavigator key="MainTabNav" />
</View>
</SafeAreaView>
);
};
export default App;
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
droidSafeArea: {
flex: 1,
backgroundColor: "#2F3438",
}
});

Answer 3

I had the exact same issue and what I did is not use SafeAreaView at all around the tab bar, but simply assigning the color I want the white space to have as the background color for the tab bar.
In your example that would be:
return (
<View>
<TabNavigator style={{ backgroundColor: "#2F3438" }} key="MainTabNav" />
</View>
);

Answer 4

<NavigationContainer>
<Tab.Navigator
tabBarOptions={{
activeTintColor: Colors.tabIconSelected,
inactiveTintColor: Colors.tabIconDefault,
style: styles.container
}}/>
</NavigationContainer>
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
backgroundColor: Colors.darkBackgroundColor,
borderTopWidth: 0
}
});
Note : borderTopWidth: 0 worked for me

Answer 5

For react native navigation V5
<Tab.Navigator
tabBarOptions={{
style: {
borderTopWidth: 0
}
}}
>
<Tab.Screen/>
<Tab.Navigator>
Note: this is for bottom tab

Answer 6

When I was implementing floating button on bottomTabNavigation followed this post, I faced similar issue that tabBar has dirty white space with shadow(I used shadow in style of component).
I used React navigation v6.
issue image1, issue image2 (Sorry, It's my first Answer I post, I can't embed image yet)
I tried to remove it with borderWidth: 0, but not worked.
My case, below is worked for me.
Try this
borderRadius: 25 // some much number that near tabbar height
on
<Tab.Navigator
tabBar={(props) => (
<View style={styles.navigatorContainer}>
<BottomTabBar {...props} />
{isIphoneX() && (
<View
style={[
styles.xFillLine,
{ backgroundColor: "#fff" },
]}
/>
)}
</View>
)}
screenOptions={{
headerShown: false,
tabBarShowLabel: false,
tabBarStyle: {
borderRadius: 25, // add here
borderTopWidth: 0,
borderRadius: 25,
backgroundColor: "transparent",
elevation: 30,
},
tabBarItemStyle: { backgroundColor: "#fff" },
}}
>
...
Then result image is this.
I don't understand why It was worked, but I hope it works for someone.

Answer 7

I had this issue when i was using the TabBarIcon property within the Tab.Screen
Tab being const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator()
I couldn't solve the issue no matter how i used the SafeAreaView.
I solved it by not using the TabBarIcon property and instead making a custom component for the tabBar property on the higher level Tab.Navigator as outlined in the react native docs https://reactnavigation.org/docs/bottom-tab-navigator/
When i created the custom tabBar component it all worked as expected, no funky use of SafeAreaView.