Here are the 3 Ways to Hide Navigation Bar in React Native Application. If you are making an application with a React Navigation StackNavigator, you can find a NavigationBar/ ActionBar on the top of the Screen. If you are on the first screen of the StackNavigator it will show simple NavigationBar but if you navigate to the next screen then it will show you the back arrow to go back.
Sometimes you don’t want to have a NavigationBar on the top of the screen so to hide the Navigation Bar we can use header: null. To hide the header here are the following options.
Options to Hide Navigation Bar
1. For the single screen, you can set header null in navigationOptions
1 2 3 4 | static navigationOptions = { //To hide the ActionBar/NavigationBar header: null, }; |
2. For the single screen, you can set header null in createStackNavigator like this
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | const App = createStackNavigator({ First: { screen: HomeActivity, navigationOptions: { header: null, }, }, }); |
3. Hide the header from all the screens in once using defaultNavigationOptions
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | const App = createStackNavigator( { First: { screen: HomeActivity, }, },{ defaultNavigationOptions: { header: null }, } ); |
If you want to hide the header dynamically on click of a button then you can visit our post on Hiding React Navigation Header on Press of a Button.
In this example, you can see how can you hide the header of any screen. Please find the comments to see how can you hide the header in different ways. We will use react-navigation to make the navigation bar on the top of the screen. So let’s get started.
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 the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run
npm install -g react-native-cliRun the following commands to create a new React Native project
react-native init ProjectNameIf you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:
react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.Xreact-native init ProjectName --version react-native@nextThis will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.
Installation of Dependencies
To switch between the screens and to make a default navigation header you need to install react-navigation and react-native-gesture-handler dependencies.
To install these dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project using
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.
CocoaPods Installation
After the updation of React Native 0.60, they have introduced autolinking so we do not require to link the library but need to install pods. So to install pods use
1 | cd ios && pod install && cd .. |
Project File Structure
To start coding you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create a file HomeActivity.js in it.
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 | //This is an example to hide Navigation Bar from a particular screen import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. //For react-navigation 2.0+ import createStackNavigator only //import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation'; //For react-navigation 3.0+ import createStackNavigator and createAppContainer import { createStackNavigator, createAppContainer } from 'react-navigation'; import HomeActivity from './pages/HomeActivity'; const App = createStackNavigator( { First: { screen: HomeActivity, //You can hide the header from here as well just uncomment below lines /*navigationOptions: { header: null, },*/ }, } //You can hide the header from all the screens in once using defaultNavigationOptions /*,{ defaultNavigationOptions: { header: null }, }*/ ); //For react-navigation 2.0+ export default class App direct //export default App; //For react-navigation 3.0+ change it to following export default createAppContainer(App); |
Open pages/HomeActivity.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
HomeActivity.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 | import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native'; export default class HomeActivity extends Component { static navigationOptions = { //To hide the NavigationBar from current Screen header: null }; render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={styles.textStyle}> Hidden Navigation Bar in React Native. </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center', padding: 10, backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF', }, }); |
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).IOS
Android
This is how you can hide Navigation Bar and make Screen Full Screen. If you have any doubt 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!
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