Here is an Example of React Native Tab for Android and IOS. We will use react-navigation to make a Tab Navigation in this example. Tabs are the most common style of navigation in mobile apps. Tabs can be on the bottom of the screen or on the top (below the header or even instead of a header). We all have seen WhatsApp and it can’t be so easy without Tab. So let’s get started with the example of Tab Navigation.
This example is updated for the React Navigation 4.0+. For more about React Navigation 4 please have a look at Using React Navigation 4.0 in React Native apps.
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 install the dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project
1 | cd ProjectName |
1. Install react-navigation dependency to import createAppContainer
1 | npm install react-navigation --save |
2. Install react-native-gesture-handler dependency to support gesture navigation
1 | npm install react-native-gesture-handler --save |
3. Install react-navigation-tabs to import createMaterialTopTabNavigator
1 | npm install react-navigation-tabs --save |
4. Install react-native-reanimated for the tab animation (Used internally by react-navigation-tabs)
1 | npm install react-native-reanimated --save |
These steps are enough for the tab navigation but in this example we are also using createStackNavigator to switch screeens, so please follow the next step also
5. Install react-navigation-stack to import createStackNavigator
1 | npm install react-navigation-stack --save |
These commands will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory.
CocoaPods Installation
After the updation of React Native 0.60, they have introduced autolinking so we do not require to link the libraries but need to install pods.
In this example we need to install the pods for react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-reanimated.
Please use the following command to install CocoaPods
1 | cd ios && pod install && cd .. |
Project File Structure
To start with this Example you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create two files FirstPge.js and SecondPage.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 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 | //This is an example of React Native Tab import React from 'react'; //import react in our code. //For React Navigation 3+ //import { // createStackNavigator, // createMaterialTopTabNavigator, // createAppContainer, //} from 'react-navigation'; //For React Navigation 4+ import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation'; import {createMaterialTopTabNavigator} from 'react-navigation-tabs'; import {createStackNavigator} from 'react-navigation-stack'; import FirstPage from './pages/FirstPage'; import SecondPage from './pages/SecondPage'; //Making TabNavigator which will be called in App StackNavigator //we can directly export the TabNavigator also but header will not be visible //as header comes only when we put anything into StackNavigator and then export const TabScreen = createMaterialTopTabNavigator( { Home: { screen: FirstPage }, Settings: { screen: SecondPage }, }, { tabBarPosition: 'top', swipeEnabled: true, animationEnabled: true, tabBarOptions: { activeTintColor: '#FFFFFF', inactiveTintColor: '#F8F8F8', style: { backgroundColor: '#633689', }, labelStyle: { textAlign: 'center', }, indicatorStyle: { borderBottomColor: '#87B56A', borderBottomWidth: 2, }, }, } ); //making a StackNavigator to export as default const App = createStackNavigator({ TabScreen: { screen: TabScreen, navigationOptions: { headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#633689', }, headerTintColor: '#FFFFFF', title: 'TabExample', }, }, }); export default createAppContainer(App); |
Open pages/FirstPage.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
FirstPage.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | // Home screen import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { Text, View } from 'react-native'; //import all the components we are going to use. export default class FirstPage extends React.Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}> <Text>Home Screen</Text> </View> ); } } |
Open pages/SecondPage.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
SecondPage.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | // Setting screen import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { Text, View } from 'react-native'; //import all the components we are going to use. export default class SecondPage extends React.Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}> <Text>Setting Screen</Text> </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
That was the React Native Tab. 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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Very Good Article sir!!!
I agree with former poster. Verygood article. Only what was necessary and not a lot of extraextra. Thank you!
Thanks that is what I want to deliver.
Simple and great. But don’t they have gestures with tab? Can’t I swipe horizontally to change the tabs?
It is not with the gesture but really nice point. I’ll update the post for it.
how do i remove TabExample Header from above because i am using
bottom navigation and drawer navigation too,
Hello Hardik, You can follow these 3 ways:
https://aboutreact.com/react-native-hide-navigation-bar-and-make-screen-full-screen/
Hello Snehal,
Greetings for the day !
Fist of all thank you for looking in my Query
& Thank you very much for this solution.
Thanks & Regards
Hello ,
Can you tell how can i add local icon above the Tab title like Native does..
Thanks,
Are you talking about the Tab Icon? Can you please share the image of the design you want?
Use this URL(https://pasteboard.co/) to upload and to share the image in the comment.
Hello Sir Please make example in using redux and meddileware .
Hi Tikam, Sorry I am busy right now that is why Redux is remaining. I’ll do it as soon as possible.
Hi, i want stacknavigator to get the name of tabNavagator, and show it on the top, how can i do this?
How would you hide the tabs using the materialTopNavigator? It’s insanely easy to hide the headers from the other navigators but it seems like you can only the Tabs using the defaultNavigitons and setting the property hideTabs to true, but this hides them all. How can you do it individually?
sorry I am not clear? are you talking about hiding any of the tabs in the navigator?
how can i put the tab inside my component? because i want the tab to be part of my component not the whole screen.
Can you please look this example https://aboutreact.com/tab-view-inside-navigation-drawer-sidebar-with-react-navigation/