This post is about How to Hide Navigation Option from Navigation Drawer / Sidebar in React Native. We will use react-navigation to make a navigation drawer in this example. I hope you have already seen our last post on React Native Navigation Drawer because in this post we are just extending the last post to hide the navigation option from the Navigation Drawer.
Hide Navigation Drawer option means while creating navigation drawer we have a screen in our navigation drawer which should be visible in the navigation option in the left menu but with some changes, we can also control the visibility of the option.
This option is very useful when you have to manage the visibility of the options while the user is logged in or logged out.
In this example, we have a navigation drawer with 4 screens but only 3 navigation option available in the Drawer Menu. On the first screen, we will have a button to open a screen which is a part of the navigation drawer but it is not visible in the Drawer Menu options.
This example will work for the React Navigation Version 3+. If you are using Version 2+ then please find the comments in the code for the suitable changes or can see our old post React Native Navigation Version 2+ for the help.
To Hide the Navigation Option from the Navigation Drawer
To hide the navigation option from the Navigation Drawer we have to return a custom drawer label. Have a look in the code snippet below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 | //Custom Label Component for the hidden screen //We will return null for the label thus we will hide the screen to be indexed in sidebar/Drawer class Hidden extends React.Component { render() { return null; } } //Drawer Navigator for the Navigation Drawer / Sidebar const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({ Screen1: { screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Screen 1 with Button', }, }, Screen2: { screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 3', }, }, HiddenScreen: { screen: HiddenScreen_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { //Return Custom label with null in return. //It will hide the label from Navigation Drawer drawerLabel: <Hidden />, }, }, }); |
Let’s get started with the example.
To Make a React Native App
Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install thereact-native-cli command line utility.
Open the terminal and go to the workspace and runnpm install -g react-native-clireact-native init ProjectNameInstallation of Dependencies
To use createDrawerNavigator, createStackNavigator you need to install react-navigation and react-native-gesture-handler dependencies.
To install these dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following commands
1 | npm install react-navigation --save |
1 | npm install react-native-gesture-handler --save |
This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory. –save is optional, it is just to update dependencies in your package.json file.
After installing the dependencies you need to link it with your project using
1 | react-native link react-native-gesture-handler |
After linking the dependency if you face Could not Compile Settings File project/android/settings.gradle error while building and installing the project then you can find the solution here.
Project Structure
To start with this example you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create four files Screen1.js, Screen2.js, Screen3.js, HiddenScreen.js in it.
To have the drawer Icon in Action Bar you have to make an image directory in your project and have to copy any drawer image with name drawer.png (You can change if you want but you need to change the file name in code too).
Here is the drawer.png if you want to download.
Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
App.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 | /*Example to keep screen in navigation drawer but hide its name from the navigation drawer/ sidebar options*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text, Image, TouchableOpacity, Button, } from 'react-native'; //Import required react-navigation component import { createDrawerNavigator, createStackNavigator, createAppContainer, } from 'react-navigation'; //Import all the screens import Screen1 from './pages/Screen1'; import Screen2 from './pages/Screen2'; import Screen3 from './pages/Screen3'; import HiddenScreen from './pages/HiddenScreen'; //Navigation Drawer Structure for all screen class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component { toggleDrawer = () => { this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer(); }; render() { return ( <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }}> <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.toggleDrawer.bind(this)}> {/*Donute Button Image */} <Image source={require('./image/drawer.png')} style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }} /> </TouchableOpacity> </View> ); } } //Stack Navigator for First Option of Navigation Drawer const FirstActivity_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ First: { screen: Screen1, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Screen 1 with Button', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Stack Navigator for Hidden Option of Navigation Drawer const HiddenScreen_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ HiddenScreen: { screen: HiddenScreen, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'HiddenScreen', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Stack Navigator for Second Option of Navigation Drawer const Screen2_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ Second: { screen: Screen2, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Simple Screen 2', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Stack Navigator for Third Option of Navigation Drawer const Screen3_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ Third: { screen: Screen3, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Simple Screen 3', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Custom Label Component for the hidden screen //We will return null for the label thus we will hide the screen to be indexed in sidebar/Drawer class Hidden extends React.Component { render() { return null; } } //Drawer Navigator for the Navigation Drawer / Sidebar const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({ Screen1: { screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Screen 1 with Button', }, }, Screen2: { screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 3', }, }, HiddenScreen: { screen: HiddenScreen_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { //Return Custom label with null in return. //It will hide the label from Navigation Drawer drawerLabel: <Hidden />, }, }, }); export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample); |
Open pages/Screen1.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
Screen1.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 | /*Example to keep screen in navigation drawer but hide its name from the navigation drawer/ sidebar options*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text,Button } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class Screen1 extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23, marginBottom: 15 }}> Screen 1 </Text> <Text style={{ textAlign: 'center', marginBottom: 15 }}> Clicking on the button will open the screen which is in the Drawernavigator but the name of the screen is not visible in the navigation option as we have hidden it </Text> <Button title="Open Hidden Screen in drawer" onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('HiddenScreen')} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, padding: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/Screen2.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
Screen2.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | /*Example to keep screen in navigation drawer but hide its name from the navigation drawer/ sidebar options*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class Screen2 extends Component { //Screen2 Component render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 2 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, paddingTop: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/Screen3.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
Screen3.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | /*Example to keep screen in navigation drawer but hide its name from the navigation drawer/ sidebar options*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class Screen3 extends Component { //Screen3 Component render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 3 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, paddingTop: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/HiddenScreen.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
HiddenScreen.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | /*Example to keep screen in navigation drawer but hide its name from the navigation drawer/ sidebar options*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text, Button } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class HiddenScreen extends React.Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ padding: 20 }}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 18, textAlign: 'center', marginBottom: 15 }}> This is the hidden screen which is in the Drawernavigator but the name of the screen is not visible in the navigation option as we have hidden it </Text> <Button title="Back to screen1" onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('Screen1')} /> </View> ); } } |
To Run the React Native App
Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.cd ProjectNamereact-native run-androidreact-native run-ios (macOS only).Android
IOS
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