react-native-detect-navbar-android

Detect soft navigation bar for Android devices, so you'll know which one has physical keys (Home, Back, Menu) and which does not.

Note: this project is Android only, and it will not work if you use it to detect soft key being hidden. Pull Request is welcomed.

Installation Process

• download this from npm

npm install react-native-detect-navbar-android --save

• Run react-native link or...

• Edit android/settings.gradle:

  + include ':react-native-detect-navbar-android'
  + project(':react-native-detect-navbar-android').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-detect-navbar-android/android')

• Edit android/app/build.gradle:

  dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1"
    compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"
  + compile project(':react-native-detect-navbar-android')
  }

• Edit your android/app/src/main/java/.../MainApplication.java:

  + import import com.rndetectnavbarandroid.RNDetectNavbarAndroidPackage;

    @Override
    protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
      return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
        new MainReactPackage()
  +     , new RNDetectNavbarAndroidPackage()
      );
    }

Usage

import DetectNavbar from 'react-native-detect-navbar-android';
// or
import {DetectNavbar} from 'react-native-detect-navbar-android';
// or
const DetectNavbar = require('react-native-detect-navbar-android');

// methods (Android Only, don't call on iOS)
DetectNavbar.hasSoftKeys().then((bool) => {
  if(bool) {
    console.log('Has Soft NavBar');
  } else {
    console.log('Has Hard Key NavBar');
  }
});