TabNavigator

A tab bar that switches between scenes, written in JS for cross-platform support. It works on iOS and Android.

This component is compatible with React Native 0.16 and newer.

The look and feel is slightly different than the native navigator but it is better in some ways. Also it is pure JavaScript.

The API of this component may change in the future to be more like Navigator's, which works great once there is better support for nested Navigators in React Native.

Note: This is not the same TabNavigation component that is used in ExNavigation, the API and implementations are slightly different -- react-native-tab-navigator stands on its own and does not depend on any other navigation library.

Install

Make sure that you are in your React Native project directory and run:

npm install react-native-tab-navigator --save

Usage

Import TabNavigator as a JavaScript module:

import TabNavigator from 'react-native-tab-navigator';

This is an example of how to use the component and some of the commonly used props that it supports:

<TabNavigator>
  <TabNavigator.Item
    selected={this.state.selectedTab === 'home'}
    title="Home"
    renderIcon={() => <Image source={...} />}
    renderSelectedIcon={() => <Image source={...} />}
    badgeText="1"
    onPress={() => this.setState({ selectedTab: 'home' })}>
    {homeView}
  </TabNavigator.Item>
  <TabNavigator.Item
    selected={this.state.selectedTab === 'profile'}
    title="Profile"
    renderIcon={() => <Image source={...} />}
    renderSelectedIcon={() => <Image source={...} />}
    renderBadge={() => <CustomBadgeView />}
    onPress={() => this.setState({ selectedTab: 'profile' })}>
    {profileView}
  </TabNavigator.Item>
</TabNavigator>

See TabNavigatorItem's supported props for more info.

Hiding the Tab Bar

You can hide the tab bar by using styles. For example:

let tabBarHeight = 0;
<TabNavigator
  tabBarStyle={{ height: tabBarHeight, overflow: 'hidden' }}
  sceneStyle={{ paddingBottom: tabBarHeight }}
/>

Props

TabNavigator props

prop	default	type	description
sceneStyle	inherited	object (style)	define for rendered scene
tabBarStyle	inherited	object (style)	define style for TabBar
tabBarShadowStyle	inherited	object (style)	define shadow style for tabBar
hidesTabTouch	false	boolean	disable onPress opacity for Tab

TabNavigator.Item props

prop	default	type	description
renderIcon	none	function	returns Item icon
renderSelectedIcon	none	function	returns selected Item icon
badgeText	none	string or number	text for Item badge
renderBadge	none	function	returns Item badge
title	none	string	Item title
titleStyle	inherited	style	styling for Item title
selectedTitleStyle	none	style	styling for selected Item title
tabStyle	inherited	style	styling for tab
selected	none	boolean	return whether the item is selected
onPress	none	function	onPress method for Item
allowFontScaling	false	boolean	allow font scaling for title