This is an example to Switch Screen out of the Navigation Drawer in React Native. We will use react-navigation to make a navigation drawer in this example. I hope you have already seen our last post on React Native Navigation Drawer because in this post we are just extending the last post to switch out of the Navigation Drawer. In this example, we have a navigation drawer with 3 screens in the navigation menu, a button on the first screen to open a screen with navigation drawer and a button on the first screen to open a new screen out of the navigation drawer.
Switching Screen out of the navigation means we are opening the ScreenExternal independent of the Navigation Drawer. To do this we are going to make a DrawerNavigator and then will put this Navigator in parallel with ScreenExternal in StackNavigator. So the Drawer will be a group and ScreenExternal will be an independent entity which will a part of stackNavigator, not the DrawerNavigator.
This example will work for the React Navigation Version 3+. If you are using Version 2+ then please find the comments in the code for the suitable changes or can see our old post React Native Navigation Version 2+ for the help.
Make the DrawerNavigator using
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | const Drawer = createDrawerNavigator({ Screen1: { screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Screen 1 with Button', }, }, Screen2: { screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 3', }, }, }); |
Make StackNavigator using
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | const DrawerNavigatorExample = createStackNavigator({ Drawer: { screen: Drawer, navigationOptions: { header: null } }, ScreenExternal: { screen: ScreenExternal, navigationOptions: { title: 'Screen External' }, }, }); |
In this example, we will make a navigation drawer with Three screens, a ScreenInternal to open in navigation drawer and a ScreenExternal which will open as an independent screen (out of the navigation drawer). 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 Dependencies
To use createDrawerNavigator, createStackNavigator you need to install react-navigation and react-native-gesture-handler dependencies.
To install these dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project
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.
After installing the dependencies you need to link it with your project using
1 | react-native link |
After linking the dependency if you face Could not Compile Settings File project/android/settings.gradle error while building and installing the project then you can find the solution here.
Project Structure
To start with this example you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create five files Screen1.js, Screen2.js, Screen3.js, ScreenExternal.js, and ScreenInternal.js in it.
To have the drawer Icon in Action Bar you have to make an image directory in your project and have to copy any drawer image with name drawer.png (For this example. You can change if you want but you need to change the file name in code too).
Here is the drawer.png if you want to download.
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 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { View, Image, TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native'; //For React Navigation 2.+ import following //import {DrawerNavigator, StackNavigator} from 'react-navigation'; //For React Navigation 3.+ import following import { createDrawerNavigator, createStackNavigator, createAppContainer, } from 'react-navigation'; import Screen1 from './pages/Screen1'; import Screen2 from './pages/Screen2'; import Screen3 from './pages/Screen3'; import ScreenExternal from './pages/ScreenExternal'; import ScreenInternal from './pages/ScreenInternal'; class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component { toggleDrawer = () => { this.props.navigationProps.toggleDrawer(); }; render() { return ( <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }}> <TouchableOpacity onPress={this.toggleDrawer.bind(this)}> {/*Donute Button Image */} <Image source={require('./image/drawer.png')} style={{ width: 25, height: 25, marginLeft: 5 }} /> </TouchableOpacity> </View> ); } } const FirstActivity_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ First: { screen: Screen1, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Screen 1 with Button', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, ScreenInternal: { screen: ScreenInternal, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Screen With Navigation Drawer', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); const Screen2_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ Second: { screen: Screen2, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Simple Screen 2', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); const Screen3_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ Third: { screen: Screen3, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Simple Screen 3', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); const Drawer = createDrawerNavigator({ Screen1: { screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Screen 1 with Button', }, }, Screen2: { screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Simple Screen 3', }, }, }); const DrawerNavigatorExample = createStackNavigator({ Drawer: { screen: Drawer, navigationOptions: { header: null } }, ScreenExternal: { screen: ScreenExternal, navigationOptions: { title: 'Screen External' }, }, }); //For React Navigation 2.+ need to export App only //export default DrawerNavigatorExample; //For React Navigation 3.+ export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample); |
Open pages/Screen1.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
Screen1.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 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text, Button } from 'react-native'; export default class Screen1 extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 1 </Text> <Button title="Go to Other Screen out of the Navigation Drawer" onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('ScreenExternal')} /> <View style={{padding:'20px'}}/> <Button title="Go to Other Screen with Navigation Drawer" onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('ScreenInternal')} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, padding: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/Screen2.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
Screen2.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; export default class Screen2 extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 2 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, padding: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/Screen3.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
Screen3.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; export default class Screen3 extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 3 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, padding: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/ScreenExternal.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
ScreenExternal.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text, Button } from 'react-native'; export default class ScreenExternal extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={{padding:20}}> <Text>Switched screen which is out of the Navigation Drawer</Text> </View> ); } } |
Open pages/ScreenInternal.js in any code editor and the Replace the code with the following code.
ScreenInternal.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | /*Example to open a screen out of the Navigation Drawer*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, View, Text, Button } from 'react-native'; export default class ScreenInternal extends Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ padding: 20 }}> <Text style={{ padding: '30px' }}> Switched Screen Which is in the Navigation Drawer </Text> <Button title="Go to Screen1" onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('First')} /> </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
This is how you can Switch Screen out of the Navigation Drawer in React Native. 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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Hi ,
Can you add post for Drawer with tab bar navigation in react native.
Hi Swarup,
Sure. Can you please elaborate about that so that we can help you.
Thanks a lot..great tutorial sir
Thank you.. your words meters alot 🙂