Example of React Native Timer and Stopwatch
This is an Example of React Native Timer and Stopwatch. To make a Stopwatch and Timer we have a very good library called react-native-stopwatch-timer. It will provides Stopwatch and Timer component.
React Native Timer and Stopwatch
A Stopwatch is a special watch which can be used to count the time. In stopwatch time starts from zero and run until we stop it but Timer is the exact opposite of it. In the Timer, we decide the time to count and it counts towards zero.
Stopwatch
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | <Stopwatch laps msecs start={this.state.isStopwatchStart} //To start reset={this.state.resetStopwatch} //To reset options={options} //options for the styling getTime={this.getFormattedTime} /> |
Timer
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | <Timer totalDuration={this.state.timerDuration} msecs //Time Duration start={this.state.isTimerStart} //To start reset={this.state.resetTimer} //To reset options={options} //options for the styling handleFinish={handleTimerComplete} //can call a function On finish of the time getTime={this.getFormattedTime} /> |
In this example, we will make a Stopwatch and a Timer. The Timer will show the count down from the given Millisecond. 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 thereact-native-cli command line utility.
Open the terminal and go to the workspace and runnpm install -g react-native-clireact-native init ProjectNameInstallation of Dependency
To use Stopwatch and Timer you need to install react-native-stopwatch-timer package.
To install this open the terminal and jump into your project using
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following command
1 | npm install react-native-stopwatch-timer --save |
This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory, You can find the directory in node_module directory named react-native-stopwatch-timer.
–save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-app-intro-slider dependancy in your package.json file.
Dependency Version for this Example used is
1 | "react-native-stopwatch-timer": "0.0.20" |
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 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 | /*This is an Example of Timer/Stopwatch in React Native */ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import React in our project import { StyleSheet,Text,View, TouchableHighlight } from 'react-native'; //import all the required components import { Stopwatch, Timer } from 'react-native-stopwatch-timer'; //importing library to use Stopwatch and Timer export default class TestApp extends Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { isTimerStart: false, isStopwatchStart: false, timerDuration: 90000, resetTimer: false, resetStopwatch: false, }; this.startStopTimer = this.startStopTimer.bind(this); this.resetTimer = this.resetTimer.bind(this); this.startStopStopWatch = this.startStopStopWatch.bind(this); this.resetStopwatch = this.resetStopwatch.bind(this); } startStopTimer() { this.setState({isTimerStart: !this.state.isTimerStart, resetTimer: false}); } resetTimer() { this.setState({isTimerStart: false, resetTimer: true}); } startStopStopWatch() { this.setState({isStopwatchStart: !this.state.isStopwatchStart, resetStopwatch: false}); } resetStopwatch() { this.setState({isStopwatchStart: false, resetStopwatch: true}); } getFormattedTime(time) { this.currentTime = time; } render() { return ( <View style={{flex:1,justifyContent:'center',alignItems:'center'}}> <View style={{flex:1,marginTop:32, alignItems:'center', justifyContent:'center'}}> <Stopwatch laps msecs start={this.state.isStopwatchStart} //To start reset={this.state.resetStopwatch} //To reset options={options} //options for the styling getTime={this.getFormattedTime} /> <TouchableHighlight onPress={this.startStopStopWatch}> <Text style={{fontSize: 20, marginTop:10}}> {!this.state.isStopwatchStart ? "START" : "STOP"} </Text> </TouchableHighlight> <TouchableHighlight onPress={this.resetStopwatch}> <Text style={{fontSize: 20, marginTop:10}}>RESET</Text> </TouchableHighlight> </View> <View style={{flex:1,marginTop:32, alignItems:'center', justifyContent:'center'}}> <Timer totalDuration={this.state.timerDuration} msecs //Time Duration start={this.state.isTimerStart} //To start reset={this.state.resetTimer} //To reset options={options} //options for the styling handleFinish={handleTimerComplete} //can call a function On finish of the time getTime={this.getFormattedTime} /> <TouchableHighlight onPress={this.startStopTimer}> <Text style={{fontSize: 20, marginTop:10}}> {!this.state.isTimerStart ? "START" : "STOP"} </Text> </TouchableHighlight> <TouchableHighlight onPress={this.resetTimer}> <Text style={{fontSize: 20, marginTop:10}}>RESET</Text> </TouchableHighlight> </View> </View> ); } } const handleTimerComplete = () => alert("Custom Completion Function"); const options = { container: { backgroundColor: '#FF0000', padding: 5, borderRadius: 5, width: 200, alignItems:'center', }, text: { fontSize: 25, color: '#FFF', marginLeft: 7, } }; |
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).
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how to get the stopwatch current time ??
You can see getFormattedTime method which is called when the stopwatch time changes.
getFormattedTime(time) {
this.currentTime = time;
}
You can make a global variable and define the value into it and whenever you want to know the current time you can access it from that variable.