I'm starting with React Native and I'm wondering if is possible to apply the default OS style for each element so I have not the need to handle every element style so imagine I have a form and simple text list, for the iOS app it should have iOS form and text style and for the Android app its default style.
As far as I've seen there is no official documentation for this commitment but I would like to ask here if there is a workaround for this.
As far as I am aware the default components within React Native does normally default to the OS style, for instance the Button component will render differently according to each platform.
As all the components that come with React Native are bare-bones, you'll have to define the styles yourself according to each platform which can be done with the Platform module: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/platform-specific-code
If you don't want to style each component yourself then you can use a library like: react-native-elements (https://react-native-training.github.io/react-native-elements/) which handles a lot of what you desire.
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I would like to create a repo for a Library for UI Components thats reusable in multiple react native projects. I want to use NativeWind (tailwind for react native)
Can anyone give me any tips on how I would go about doing this? I have tried setting up a library with nativewind installed.
But when I create a component styled using nativewind, then try to run an example of using said component it doesn't show any of the styling.
I used react-native-builder-bob for boilerplate library.
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.
I'm now studying framework react native native-base.
While reading document, I think it is little bit different with original code.
For example, <View> is replace to <Container>
Also many codes replace to native-base's style code like this.
So I'm wondering, are there a lot of people coding in native-base syntax?
Does native-base have any performance problem?
(I know that there are lots of good features, But I'm not talking about that. Just performance, and syntax...)
NativeBase framework are exposing exactly the same UX as natively written applications because NativeBase uses the React Native platform's default rendering and layout engine.
NativeBase allows to have a common codebase for all their application code.
NativeBase is targeted specially on the look and feel, and UI interplay of your app. NativeBase without a doubt fits in well with mobile applications (i.e. use of Container, Header, Footer etc) which cut downs one huge part of your app The Front end.
I've been evaluating React Native as a replacement for Cordova, and was wondering if there is a widely accepted solution for styled text inputs. I'd like to see text inputs rendered in Material Design on Android, and Apple style on iOS.
Do you have recommendations for a specific library, or will I have to write my own/combine multiple libraries? Thank you!
You could check out https://nativebase.io/ it supports platform specific default styling there are others as well like https://react-native-training.github.io/react-native-elements/ and http://www.xinthink.com/react-native-material-kit/ which has consistent styling regardless of platform.
Coming from a Cordova/Sencha Touch background I suggest you try to create your own style using only the default react native components, the reason is that before I was having the same question regarding component library that I could use so that I could target all platform at once, but react native isn't 100% cross platform and learning to style on different platform might give you an idea and feedback with your evaluation, unless your aiming to have a project as soon as possible and that is a different story.