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 timePicker component for both Android and IOS.
In this example, we will make a simple time picker with 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 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 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
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following command
1 | 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 dependancy in your package.json file.
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 | //This is an example code to get TimePicker// import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; //import all the components we are going to use. import TimePicker from 'react-native-simple-time-picker'; //import TimePicker from the package we installed export default class App extends Component { state = { selectedHours: 0, //initial Hours selectedMinutes: 0, //initial Minutes } render() { const { selectedHours, selectedMinutes } = this.state; return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Text>{selectedHours}hr:{selectedMinutes}min</Text> <TimePicker selectedHours={selectedHours} //initial Hourse value selectedMinutes={selectedMinutes} //initial Minutes value onChange={(hours, minutes) => this.setState({ selectedHours: hours, selectedMinutes: minutes })} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, backgroundColor: '#fff', marginLeft:50, marginRight:50, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
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
That was the React Native TimePicker. 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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