react-native-view-overflow-abelyang v0.0.4
react-native-view-overflow
Motivation
The problem is that a parent View in Android will clip the content of children Views (react-native)
This solves the problem of Overflow on Android (check this https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/16951)
This could make code simpler, so you don't need to move some Components outside parents to make layout work
You can read more about the motivation and this package here https://medium.com/@sibelius/solving-view-overflow-in-android-reactnative-f961752a75cd
Getting started
$ npm install react-native-view-overflow --save
Mostly automatic installation
$ react-native link react-native-view-overflow
Usage
import ViewOverflow from 'react-native-view-overflow';
<ViewOverflow>
<ComponentToEnableOverflow />
</ViewOverflow>
Usage with Flatlist
To make this work with FlatList and related components you need to replace CellRendererComponent
with ViewOverflow
, for example:
<FlatList
data={this.state.data}
keyExtractor={item => item.id}
CellRendererComponent={ViewOverflow}
renderItem={({ item, index }) => (
<ViewOverflow style={styles.item}>
// item....
</ViewOverflow>
)}
/>
Usage with Animated Views
To make this work in place of an Animated.View
, you need to use Animated.createAnimatedComponent
to create an animatable version of ViewOverflow
. For example:
import ViewOverflow from 'react-native-view-overflow';
const AnimatedViewOverflow = Animated.createAnimatedComponent(ViewOverflow);
You can then use AnimatedViewOverflow
in place of Animated.View
.
Manual installation
- Open up
android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java
- Add
import com.entria.views.RNViewOverflowPackage;
to the imports at the top of the file - Add
new RNViewOverflowPackage()
to the list returned by thegetPackages()
method
- Append the following lines to
android/settings.gradle
:include ':react-native-view-overflow' project(':react-native-view-overflow').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-view-overflow/android')
- Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in
android/app/build.gradle
:compile project(':react-native-view-overflow')
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