react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar

A simple and customizable React Native component that implements an animated bottom tab bar for React Navigation v6.

• 60FPS
• Support for iPhoneX
• Lots of customization
• Bottom Tab Bar Floating style

📆 Updates / Changelog

Changelog.md

Animation Preview

Customization Preview

Other possible Customizations

Tab Bar Icons

Layout

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Prerequisites

In order to use the component, you need to have React Navigation v6 installed. You also need styled-components.

Installation

If using yarn

yarn add react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar

If using npm

npm install react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar

Usage

Notice

If you updated the package to a new version, don't forget to run npm run start -- --reset-cache to have the latest version.

Import

1// Javascript
2import { AnimatedTabBarNavigator } from "react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar";
3// Typescript
4import {
5  AnimatedTabBarNavigator,
6  DotSize, // optional
7  TabElementDisplayOptions, // optional
8  TabButtonLayout, // optional
9  IAppearanceOptions // optional
10} from 'react-native-animated-nav-tab-bar'
11

Initialize

Then create a navigator using the navigation builder that you imported, and create your navigation! Look at the example below.

1...
2
3const Tabs = AnimatedTabBarNavigator();
4
5export default () => (
6  <Tabs.Navigator
7    // default configuration from React Navigation
8    tabBarOptions={{
9      activeTintColor: "#2F7C6E",
10      inactiveTintColor: "#222222"
11    }}
12  >
13
14    // Home Screen
15    <Tabs.Screen name="Home" component={Home} />
16
17    // Other screens go here.
18    ...
19
20  </Tabs.Navigator>
21)

Add Icons

If you'd like to add icons to your Bottom Navigation you can use react-native-vector-icons. Look at an example of how to add icons to your tab bar.

Example

1import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Feather';
2
3...
4
5export default () =>
6  <Tabs.Navigator
7    tabBarOptions={{
8      activeTintColor: "#2F7C6E",
9      inactiveTintColor: "#222222"
10    }}
11  >
12    <Tabs.Screen
13      name="Home"
14      component={Home}
15      options={{
16        tabBarIcon: ({ focused, color, size }) => (
17            <Icon
18                name="Home"
19                size={size ? size : 24}
20                color={focused ? color : "#222222"}
21                focused={focused}
22                color={color}
23            />
24        )
25      }}
26    />
27    </Tabs.Navigator>
28
29...

Documentation

The navigation component takes two main props which help you customize your navigation. tabBarOptions is the default prop from React Navigation which you can use to specify different tint colors and more (see available options below). for all the details. The second prop is appearance. Here you'll be able to adjust several properties of the tab bar as you wish. See the available properties above.

• tabBarOptions

  • ✅activeTintColor - Label and icon color of the active tab item.
  • ✅inactiveTintColor - Label and icon color of the inactive tab item.
  • ✅activeBackgroundColor - Background color of the active tab item.
  • ✅tabStyle - Style object for the tab wrapper (Note! it overrides the properties in appearance prop (see below).
  • ✅labelStyle - Style object for the tab label text.

• appearance

  • ✅topPadding (default: 20) - Space between the tab button and the wrapper (top)

  • ✅horizontalPadding (default: 20) - Vertical space between for the tab buttons

  • ✅tabBarBackground (default: "white") - Background color for the wrapper that contains the navigation tabs

  • ✅shadow (default: true) - If set to true, the wrapper has a light shadow

  • ✅activeTabBackgrounds - Array of hex colours for the background of each tab when active. (if not specified, falls back to the activeBackgroundColor from tabBarOptions)

  • ✅activeColors - Array of hex colours for the tint of each tab when active. (if not specified, falls back to the activeTintColor from tabBarOptions)

  • ✅floating (default: false) - If set to true, the nav bar will float on top of the current screen. Look at examples above.

  • ✅whenActiveShow (default: "both") Configure the appearance of the active tab. Available values both, label-only, icon-only.

  • ✅whenInactiveShow (default: "icon-only") Configure the appearance of the inactive tabs. Available values both, label-only, icon-only.

  • ✅tabButtonLayout (default: "horizontal") Configure the layout of the tab button. Available values vertical, horizontal.

  • ✅dotCornerRadius (default: 100) Corner radius for the active background / dot.

  • ✅dotSize (default: "medium") Size of dot for the active tab. Available values small, medium, large.

  Note! Make sure you reload your view after changing the props. The animation might be stuck while changing them dynamically.

Troubleshooting

• My tab doesn't reflect the tabStyle object when I set paddingTop. Solution: You must provide the same value for paddingTop in both tabStyle object and topPadding property from appearance. This is due to the fact that the dot / active background uses position absolute, and the parent's padding top does not affect it.
• My appearance prop style doesn't apply. Solution: Up until version 3.1.2 there was a typo with the appearance prop. (Instead of appearance it was appearence). It has been fixed in 3.1.3 and you should make sure you're using the right spelling too if you update to 3.1.3.

Contributing

Pull requests are always welcome! Feel free to open a new GitHub issue for any changes that can be made.

If you raise an issue, please add proper steps to reproduce it and proper logs. Thanks!

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Author

Catalin Torge @torgeadelin

License

MIT