This is an example of Tab View inside Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with React Navigation in React Native. We will use react-navigation to make a navigation drawer and Tab in this example. I hope you have already seen our post on React Native Navigation Drawer because in this post we are just extending the last post to show the Tab View inside the Navigation Drawer.
In this example, we have a navigation drawer with 3 screens in the navigation menu and a Tab View on the first screen of the Navigation Drawer. When we open Screen1 the Tab will be visible and on the other options, this Tab will be invisible.
To Create a DrawerNavigator
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 | //Drawer Navigator for the Navigation Drawer / Sidebar const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({ //Drawer Optons and indexing Screen1: { //Title screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 1', }, }, Screen2: { //Title screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { //Title screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 3', }, }, }); |
To Create Material Top Tab Navigator
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 | const TabScreen = createMaterialTopTabNavigator( { Home: { screen: HomeScreen }, Settings: { screen: SettingsScreen }, }, { tabBarPosition: 'top', swipeEnabled: true, animationEnabled: true, tabBarOptions: { activeTintColor: '#FFFFFF', inactiveTintColor: '#F8F8F8', style: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, labelStyle: { textAlign: 'center', }, indicatorStyle: { borderBottomColor: '#87B56A', borderBottomWidth: 2, }, }, } ); |
In this example, we will make a Tab Navigator inside a Drawer Navigator 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 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.
CocoaPods Installation
After the updation of React Native 0.60, they have introduced autolinking so we do not require to link the library but need to install pods. So to install pods use
1 | cd ios && pod install && cd .. |
Project Structure
To start with this example you need to create a directory named pages in your project and create three files Screen1.js, Screen2.js, and Screen3.js. This files will be the Navigation Screens of the Drawer Navigator.
We will create a Tab in Screen1 so we will make a directory called TabPages inside pages directory and will create 3 files HomeScreen.js, SettingScreen.js, and TabHelper.js.
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 (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 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, Platform, View, Text, Image, TouchableOpacity, } from 'react-native'; //Import required react-navigation component import { createDrawerNavigator, createStackNavigator, createAppContainer } from 'react-navigation'; //Import all the screens for Drawer/ Sidebar import Screen1 from './pages/Screen1'; import Screen2 from './pages/Screen2'; import Screen3 from './pages/Screen3'; //Navigation Drawer Structure for all screen class NavigationDrawerStructure extends Component { //Structure for the navigatin Drawer toggleDrawer = () => { //Props to open/close the drawer 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> ); } } //Stack Navigator for First Option of Navigation Drawer const FirstActivity_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ //All the screen from the Screen1 will be indexed here First: { screen: Screen1, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Demo Screen 1', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', shadowOpacity: 0, elevation: 0, }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Stack Navigator for Second Option of Navigation Drawer const Screen2_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ //All the screen from the Screen2 will be indexed here Second: { screen: Screen2, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Demo Screen 2', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Stack Navigator for Third Option of Navigation Drawer const Screen3_StackNavigator = createStackNavigator({ //All the screen from the Screen3 will be indexed here Third: { screen: Screen3, navigationOptions: ({ navigation }) => ({ title: 'Demo Screen 3', headerLeft: <NavigationDrawerStructure navigationProps={navigation} />, headerStyle: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, headerTintColor: '#fff', }), }, }); //Drawer Navigator for the Navigation Drawer / Sidebar const DrawerNavigatorExample = createDrawerNavigator({ //Drawer Optons and indexing Screen1: { //Title screen: FirstActivity_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 1', }, }, Screen2: { //Title screen: Screen2_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 2', }, }, Screen3: { //Title screen: Screen3_StackNavigator, navigationOptions: { drawerLabel: 'Demo Screen 3', }, }, }); export default createAppContainer(DrawerNavigatorExample); |
Open pages/Screen1.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
Screen1.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components import TabHelper from './TabPages/TabHelper'; export default class Screen1 extends Component { //Return Tab Navigator from here to render tab in option one of navigation drawer render() { return <TabHelper />; } } |
Open pages/Screen2.js in any code editor and 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 23 24 25 26 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class Screen2 extends Component { //Screen2 Component render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 2 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, paddingTop: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/Screen3.js in any code editor and 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 23 24 25 26 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React, { Component } from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class Screen3 extends Component { //Screen3 Component render() { return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <Text style={{ fontSize: 23 }}> Screen 3 </Text> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer: { flex: 1, paddingTop: 20, alignItems: 'center', marginTop: 50, justifyContent: 'center', }, }); |
Open pages/TabPages/TabHelper.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
TabHelper.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 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { createAppContainer, createStackNavigator, createMaterialTopTabNavigator, } from 'react-navigation'; //Import all the screens for Tab import HomeScreen from './HomeScreen'; import SettingsScreen from './SettingsScreen'; const TabScreen = createMaterialTopTabNavigator( { Home: { screen: HomeScreen }, Settings: { screen: SettingsScreen }, }, { tabBarPosition: 'top', swipeEnabled: true, animationEnabled: true, tabBarOptions: { activeTintColor: '#FFFFFF', inactiveTintColor: '#F8F8F8', style: { backgroundColor: '#FF9800', }, labelStyle: { textAlign: 'center', }, indicatorStyle: { borderBottomColor: '#87B56A', borderBottomWidth: 2, }, }, } ); const TabHelper = createStackNavigator({ TabScreen: { screen: TabScreen, navigationOptions: { header: null, }, }, }); export default createAppContainer(TabHelper); |
Open pages/TabPages/HomeScreen.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
HomeScreen.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { Text, View } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class HomeScreen extends React.Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}> <Text>Home page from pages > TabPages</Text> </View> ); } } |
Open pages/TabPages/SettingsScreen.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
SettingsScreen.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | //This is an example of Tab inside Navigation Drawer in React Native// import React from 'react'; //import react in our code. import { Text, View } from 'react-native'; // import all basic components export default class SettingsScreen extends React.Component { render() { return ( <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}> <Text>Settings page from pages > TabPages</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
This is how you can add Tab View inside Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with React Navigation 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!
Hope you liked it. 🙂
Hi ,it is working fine.But how can I navigate to normal screen which is not under the tabs or drawer? Kindly help me.
I have 2 screens(screen1,screen2) under tab.And tab is under my sidemenu screen.
Finally I created a new independent screen3.
Now I want to navigate from screen1 to screen3.I tried with this.property.navigation.navigate(‘screen3’).But not working.
Please help me..
Put the screen 3 in createStackNavigator parallel with createDrawerNavigator. Please have a look at Switch Screen out of the Navigation Drawer with Latest Navigation V. 4+