Example of Navigation between views in React Native Android?

Question

After check the React Native documentation, I still don\'t understand the best way to create views and navigate between different components.

I don\'t want to use an

Answer 1

UPDATE 04/2018 :

Things have change since my first answer, and today two massive libraries are relevant for navigation : react-navigation and react-native-navigation.

I will wrote an example for react-navigation which is an easy to use library and full JS maintain by serious people from the community.

First install the library :

yarn add react-navigation

or

npm install --save react-navigation

Then in your app entry point (index.js) :

import Config from './config';

import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native';
import { StackNavigator } from 'react-navigation';

export const AppNavigator = StackNavigator(Config.navigation);
AppRegistry.registerComponent('appName', () => AppNavigator);

You can see that we pass an object to the StackNavigator, it's all ours screens configuration, here is an example of configuration :

import HomeScreen from "./HomeScreen";
import SettingsScreen from "./SettingsScreen";

const Config = {
      navigation: {
          Home: {
            screen: HomeScreen
          },
          Settings: {
            screen: SettingsScreen,
          }
       }
    }

Now the app know each screen we got. We can simply tell the "navigate" function to go to our Setting Screen. Let's watch our Home Screen :

class HomeScene extends Component {

      constructor(props) {
          super(props);
      }

      render () {
        return (
        <View>
            <Button
              title="Go to Settings"
              onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('Settings')}
            />
        </View>

        );
      }
    }

As you can see, the navigation will hydrate the props. And from here you can make what you want.

Go to the library documentation to see all you can do : change the header type, the title, navigation type, ...

PREVIOUS ANSWER :

Watch this example: https://github.com/h87kg/NavigatorDemo

It's useful and a well written Navigator example, better than the one above you just wrote, I think.

Mainly watch the relationship between LoginPage.js and MainPage.js

Answer 2

I've found this example: https://rnplay.org/apps/HPy6UA

And I've written a tutorial about it: https://playcode.org/navigation-in-react-native/

It's really helpful to understand the Navigation in React Native:

'use strict';

var React = require('react-native');

var {
  AppRegistry,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View,
  Navigator,
  TouchableOpacity,
} = React;

var SCREEN_WIDTH = require('Dimensions').get('window').width;
var BaseConfig = Navigator.SceneConfigs.FloatFromRight;

var CustomLeftToRightGesture = Object.assign({}, BaseConfig.gestures.pop, {
  // Make it snap back really quickly after canceling pop
  snapVelocity: 8,
  // Make it so we can drag anywhere on the screen
  edgeHitWidth: SCREEN_WIDTH,
});

var CustomSceneConfig = Object.assign({}, BaseConfig, {
  // A very tighly wound spring will make this transition fast
  springTension: 100,
  springFriction: 1,
  // Use our custom gesture defined above
  gestures: {
    pop: CustomLeftToRightGesture,
  }
});

var PageOne = React.createClass({
  _handlePress() {
    this.props.navigator.push({id: 2,});
  },

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={[styles.container, {backgroundColor: 'green'}]}>
        <Text style={styles.welcome}>Greetings!</Text>
        <TouchableOpacity onPress={this._handlePress}>
          <View style={{paddingVertical: 10, paddingHorizontal: 20, backgroundColor: 'black'}}>
            <Text style={styles.welcome}>Go to page two</Text>
          </View>
        </TouchableOpacity>
       </View>
    )
  },
});

var PageTwo = React.createClass({
  _handlePress() {
    this.props.navigator.pop();
  },

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={[styles.container, {backgroundColor: 'purple'}]}>
        <Text style={styles.welcome}>This is page two!</Text>
        <TouchableOpacity onPress={this._handlePress}>
          <View style={{paddingVertical: 10, paddingHorizontal: 20, backgroundColor: 'black'}}>
            <Text style={styles.welcome}>Go back</Text>
          </View>
        </TouchableOpacity>
       </View>
    )
  },
});

var SampleApp = React.createClass({
  _renderScene(route, navigator) {
    if (route.id === 1) {
      return <PageOne navigator={navigator} />
    } else if (route.id === 2) {
      return <PageTwo navigator={navigator} />
    }
  },

  _configureScene(route) {
    return CustomSceneConfig;
  },

  render() {
    return (
      <Navigator
        initialRoute={{id: 1, }}
        renderScene={this._renderScene}
        configureScene={this._configureScene} />
    );
  }
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  },
  welcome: {
    fontSize: 20,
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 10,
    color: 'white',
  },
});

AppRegistry.registerComponent('SampleApp', () => SampleApp);

module.exports = SampleApp;

Answer 3

I suggest you use react-navigation you can take a look to the Navigator Playground example

• Components built for iOS and Android
• Choose between TabNavigator, DrawerNavigator and StackNavigator.
• Implement your CustomNavigator
• Develop your own navigation views
• Share logic between mobile apps, web apps with server rendering.
• Documentation is pretty straighforward
• It is redux integrated.
• It is super easy!
• Will become the official navigator suggested by react-native!

Install navigation module.

npm install --save react-navigation

Import it in your app

import {
  TabNavigator,
} from 'react-navigation';

const BasicApp = TabNavigator({
  Main: {screen: MainScreen},
  Setup: {screen: SetupScreen},
});

...and navigate

class MainScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    label: 'Home',
  };
  render() {
    const { navigate } = this.props.navigation;
    return (
      <Button
        title="Go to Setup Tab"
        onPress={() => navigate('Setup')}
      />
    );
  }
}