React Native Bottom Action Menu

Bottom Action Menu

This is an Example to make React Native Bottom Action Menu. To make Bottom Action Menu, we are going to use ActionSheet component from react-native-actionsheet library.

This can be mostly seen by the IOS developers as it looks like a default select option in IOS. With the help of the Bottom Action Menu, you can provide the facility to select from multiple options.

How to use the ActionSheet Component?

<ActionSheet
  ref={actionSheet}
  // Title of the Bottom Sheet
  title={'Which one do you like ?'}
  // Options Array to show in bottom sheet
  options={optionArray}
  // Define cancel button index in the option array
  // This will take the cancel option in bottom
  // and will highlight it
  cancelButtonIndex={4}
  // Highlight any specific option
  destructiveButtonIndex={1}
  onPress={(index) => {
    // Clicking on the option will give you alert
    alert(optionArray[index]);
  }}
/>

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.

Installation of Dependency

To use ActionSheet you need to install react-native-actionsheet package. To install this

Open the terminal and jump into your project

cd ProjectName

Run the following command

npm install react-native-actionsheet --save

This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory. –save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-action sheet dependency in your package.json file.

Code for Bottom Action Menu

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

App.js

// React Native Bottom Action Menu
// https://aboutreact.com/react-native-bottom-action-menu/

// import React in our code
import React, {useRef} from 'react';

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

// import ActionSheet
import ActionSheet from 'react-native-actionsheet';

const App = () => {
  let actionSheet = useRef();
  var optionArray = [
    'Option 1',
    'Option 2',
    'Option 3',
    'Option 4',
    'Cancel'
  ];

  const showActionSheet = () => {
    //To show the Bottom ActionSheet
    actionSheet.current.show();
  };

  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.titleStyle}>
          React Native Bottom Action Menu
        </Text>
        <TouchableHighlight
          style={styles.buttonStyle}
          onPress={showActionSheet}>
          <Text style={styles.buttonTextStyle}>
            Open Buttom ActionSheet
          </Text>
        </TouchableHighlight>
        <Text style={styles.titleStyle}>
          www.aboutreact.com
        </Text>
        <ActionSheet
          ref={actionSheet}
          // Title of the Bottom Sheet
          title={'Which one do you like ?'}
          // Options Array to show in bottom sheet
          options={optionArray}
          // Define cancel button index in the option array
          // This will take the cancel option in bottom
          // and will highlight it
          cancelButtonIndex={4}
          // Highlight any specific option
          destructiveButtonIndex={1}
          onPress={(index) => {
            // Clicking on the option will give you alert
            alert(optionArray[index]);
          }}
        />
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};
export default App;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignContent: 'center',
    textAlign: 'center',
    paddingTop: 30,
    backgroundColor: '#307ecc',
    padding: 16,
  },
  buttonStyle: {
    width: '100%',
    height: 40,
    padding: 10,
    backgroundColor: '#f5821f',
    marginTop: 30,
  },
  buttonTextStyle: {
    color: 'white',
    textAlign: 'center',
  },
  titleStyle: {
    color: 'white',
    textAlign: 'center',
    fontSize: 20,
    marginTop: 10,
  },
});

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

Android

IOS

Output in Online Emulator

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

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