React Native Time Picker

This post will show you an Example to Use Time Picker in React Native. TimePicker can be used to select the time. For the TimePicker that can be used on both platforms, you need to use a react-native-simple-time-picker library. A single React Native time picker component for both Android and IOS.

In this example, we will make a simple time picker with a default time and the user can change the time. 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 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 timepicker you need to install react-native-simple-time-picker package.

To install this open the terminal and jump into your project

cd ProjectName

Run the following command

npm install react-native-simple-time-picker --save

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

Code for React Native Time Picker

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

App.js

// React Native Time Picker – To Pick the Time using Native Time Picker
// https://aboutreact.com/react-native-timepicker/

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

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

//import TimePicker from the package we installed
import TimePicker from 'react-native-simple-time-picker';

const App = () => {
  const [selectedHours, setSelectedHours] = useState(0);
  const [selectedMinutes, setSelectedMinutes] = useState(0);

  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.title}>
          React Native Time Picker –
          To Pick the Time using Native Time Picker
        </Text>
        <Text>
          Selected Time: {selectedHours}:{selectedMinutes}
        </Text>
        <TimePicker
          selectedHours={selectedHours}
          //initial Hourse value
          selectedMinutes={selectedMinutes}
          //initial Minutes value
          onChange={(hours, minutes) => {
            setSelectedHours(hours);
            setSelectedMinutes(minutes);
          }}
        />
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

export default App;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    padding: 10,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  title: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    fontSize: 20,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    padding: 20,
  },
});

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

Download Source Code

Output Screenshots

Output in Online Emulator

That was the React Native TimePicker. 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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