A beautiful and customizable Material Design Bottom Navigation for react native

by React Native Example

react-native-material-bottom-navigation

A beautiful, customizable and easy-to-use Material Design Bottom Navigation for react-native.

  • Pure JavaScript. No native dependencies. No linking. No obstacles.
  • Looks beautiful. Stunning and fluid animations. You won't believe it's not a native view.
  • Customize it. You can adjust nearly everything to make it fit perfectly to your app.
  • Easy to use. Uses established React patterns for both simple and advanced usage.
  • Pluggable. Includes customizable Tabs and Badges. Not enough? Create and use your own!

Installation

Using npm:

npm install react-native-material-bottom-navigation

Or using yarn:

yarn add react-native-material-bottom-navigation

Demo

Usage

This library uses render props as established pattern for component composition. The example below illustrates the basic usage of the Bottom Navigation.

import BottomNavigation, { FullTab } from 'react-native-material-bottom-navigation'

export default class App extends React.Component {
  tabs = [
    {
      key: 'games',
      icon: 'gamepad-variant',
      label: 'Games',
      barColor: '#388E3C',
      pressColor: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.16)'
    },
    {
      key: 'movies-tv',
      icon: 'movie',
      label: 'Movies & TV',
      barColor: '#B71C1C',
      pressColor: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.16)'
    },
    {
      key: 'music',
      icon: 'music-note',
      label: 'Music',
      barColor: '#E64A19',
      pressColor: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.16)'
    }
  ]

  renderIcon = icon => ({ isActive }) => (
    <Icon size={24} color="white" name={tab.icon} />
  ))

  renderTab = ({ tab, isActive }) => (
    <FullTab
      isActive={isActive}
      key={tab.key}
      label={tab.label}
      renderIcon={this.renderIcon(tab.icon)}
    />
  )

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
        <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
          {/* Your screen contents depending on current tab. */}
        </View>
        <BottomNavigation
          onTabPress={activeTab => this.setState({ activeTab })}
          renderTab={this.renderTab}
          tabs={this.tabs}
        />
      </View>
    )
  }
}

Notes

React Navigation Support

In contrary to earlier releases, this library does not support React Navigation out of the box (called NavigationComponent in earlier releases). React Navigation now ships with an own Material Bottom Navigation: createMaterialBottomTabNavigator.

The API of React Navigation changes quite frequently, and (until now) it wasn't always easy to keep track of changes and be up-to-date. Also I don't want to favor and promote React Navigation over other Navigation Libraries.

You can still implement the Bottom Navigation on your own, for example by using React Navigation's Custom Navigator.

If you integrate material-bottom-navigation with a navigation library in your project, feel free to share your knowledge by contributing to the Documentation or event create your own module which uses react-native-material-bottom-navigation.

Updated Material Design Specs

Google updated the Material Guidelines on Google I/O 2018 with new specifications, including a slightly changed Bottom Navigation and a new "App Bar Bottom" with a FAB in a centered cutout. react-native-material-bottom-navigation uses the older specs.

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