Tab View inside Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with React Navigation

Tab View + Navigation Drawer

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 Drawer Navigator

//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

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-cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

react-native init ProjectName

If 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.X

react-native init ProjectName --version react-native@next

This 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 other dependencies.

To install these dependencies open the terminal and jump into your project

cd ProjectName

Run the following commands

npm install react-navigation --save

npm install react-native-gesture-handler react-native-safe-area-context @react-native-community/masked-view react-native-screens react-native-reanimated --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

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. These 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 it

Code

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

App.js

//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

//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

//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

//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

//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

//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

//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 ProjectName

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running

react-native run-ios (macOS only).

Output Screenshots

Android

IOS

Output in Online Emulator

This is how you can add Tab View inside Navigation Drawer / Sidebar with React Navigation in React Native. If you have any doubts 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. 🙂