Image Icon Inside the React Native Button

Image Icon in Button

We always want to make our buttons as good as possible to provide the best UI experience. Everybody knows that the button is the most important thing in the mobile application as we require buttons on mostly each screen. So to start showing Image Icon Inside the React Native Button we are expecting you understand the Button and Touchable, If not then you can see our previous example of React Native Button and React Native Touchable.

React Native Button has some limitations as it is not so customizable and we can not change the style of a React Native Button. So if we want to make a button with some customization we have to use React Native Touchable. To describe React Native Touchable, It is a component to overcome the limitation of the stying of button component. So we are going to use Touchable as or button in this Example.

Types of Touchables

We have 4 types of Touchables

– TouchableNativeFeedback (Only For Android)
– TouchableHighlight (For Android/IOS Both)
– TouchableOpacity (For Android/IOS Both)
– TouchableWithoutFeedback (For Android/IOS Both)

We are going to use TouchableOpacity in this example because it can be used in Both Android and IOS and it also provides native feel.

To Import TouchableOpacity in code

import { TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native'

Render Using

<TouchableOpacity style={styles.FacebookStyle} activeOpacity={0.5}>
    <Image
     source={require('./Images/facebook.png')}
     style={styles.ImageIconStyle}
    />
    <View style={styles.SeparatorLine} />
    <Text style={styles.TextStyle}> Login Using Facebook </Text>
</TouchableOpacity>

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 command line interface to make our React Native App.

If you have previously installed a global react-native-cli package, please remove it as it may cause unexpected issues:

npm uninstall -g react-native-cli @react-native-community/cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

npx react-native init ProjectName

If you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:

npx react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.X

Note If the above command is failing, you may have old version of react-native or react-native-cli installed globally on your pc. Try uninstalling the cli and run the cli using npx.

This will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.

Code

Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code

App.js

//Image Icon Inside the React Native Button
//https://aboutreact.com/image-icon-inside-the-react-native-button/

//import React in our code
import React from 'react';

//import all the components we are going to use
import {
  SafeAreaView,
  StyleSheet,
  View,
  Text,
  Image,
  TouchableOpacity,
} from 'react-native';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={{flex: 1}}>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <TouchableOpacity
          style={styles.buttonFacebookStyle}
          activeOpacity={0.5}>
          <Image
            source={{
              uri:
                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AboutReact/sampleresource/master/facebook.png',
            }}
            style={styles.buttonImageIconStyle}
          />
          <View style={styles.buttonIconSeparatorStyle} />
          <Text style={styles.buttonTextStyle}>
            Login Using Facebook
          </Text>
        </TouchableOpacity>
        <TouchableOpacity
          style={styles.buttonGPlusStyle}
          activeOpacity={0.5}>
          <Image
            source={{
              uri:
                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AboutReact/sampleresource/master/google-plus.png',
            }}
            style={styles.buttonImageIconStyle}
          />
          <View style={styles.buttonIconSeparatorStyle} />
          <Text style={styles.buttonTextStyle}>
            Login Using Google Plus
          </Text>
        </TouchableOpacity>
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    margin: 10,
    marginTop: 30,
    padding: 30,
  },
  buttonGPlusStyle: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#dc4e41',
    borderWidth: 0.5,
    borderColor: '#fff',
    height: 40,
    borderRadius: 5,
    margin: 5,
  },
  buttonFacebookStyle: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#485a96',
    borderWidth: 0.5,
    borderColor: '#fff',
    height: 40,
    borderRadius: 5,
    margin: 5,
  },
  buttonImageIconStyle: {
    padding: 10,
    margin: 5,
    height: 25,
    width: 25,
    resizeMode: 'stretch',
  },
  buttonTextStyle: {
    color: '#fff',
    marginBottom: 4,
    marginLeft: 10,
  },
  buttonIconSeparatorStyle: {
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    width: 1,
    height: 40,
  },
});

export default App;

To Run the React Native App

Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.

cd ProjectName

1. Start Metro Bundler

First, you will need to start Metro, the JavaScript bundler that ships with React Native. To start Metro bundler run following command

npx react-native start

Once you start Metro Bundler it will run forever on your terminal until you close it. Let Metro Bundler run in its own terminal. Open a new terminal and run the application.

2. Start React Native Application

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

npx react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running (macOS only)

npx react-native run-ios

Output Screenshots

Output in Online Emulator

This is how You can set an image inside the React Native Button. If you have any doubts or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!

Hope you liked it. 🙂