React Native Android Backer

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What

React Native Android Backer is a solution for React Native Android back button. It combines the react-navigation API to provide powerful functionality. The features as follow:

• Double click back button to exit app
• Make back button disabled
• Click back button to navigate page
• Click back button to close modal

Install

npm install react-native-android-backer
// or 
yarn add react-native-android-backer

Dependency Library

Please make sure project have installed libraries as follow:

• react: >= 16.x
• react-native: >= 0.57.x
• react-navigation: >= 3.x

Get Started

1. First step is to use withBacker function to encapsulation the react-navigation 的 AppNavigator component：

import { withBacker } from 'react-native-android-backer';
import AppNavigator from './navigation/AppNavigator';
 
const AppNavigatorWithBacker = withBacker(AppNavigator, {
  exitToast: () => console.log('Click again will exit App'),
  isExitScreen: routeName => false,
});

withBacker(component, options): this API is a HOC, it receive 2 params:

• component: type is React component, the wrap component
• options: type is object, use to config the back button behaviors，the attributes as follow：
  • exitToast: type is function, the toast function for exit app
  • isExitScreen: type is function, check the current screen whether should exit app

AppNavigatior is the initialize file of use expo to create React Native project，the source file is here。

1. Second step is to replace AppNavigator to AppNavigatorWithBacker.

- <AppNavigator />
+ <AppNavigatorWithBacker />

API

React Native Android Backer use the react-navigation params to do different things according to the back button behaviors. The params as follow:

• disableBack：type is boolean, set true to disable back button event.
• backPage && backPageParams： backPage's type is string，backPageParams's type is object, which were make back button to navigate to backPage with backPageParams.
• isModalShow && closeModal：isModalShow's type is function, closeModal's type is function, which were make back button to close modal.

Example:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
 
class Foo extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    ...
    // define the react-navigation params in the constructor 
    props.navigation.setParams({
      disableBack: true,
      backPage: 'Bar', // the page when click back button will navigate to
      backPageParams: { foo: 'foo' }, // the params in the navigate behave
      isModalShow: () => this.state.isVisible, // the funtion to check the modal whether to open
      closeModal: () => this.setState({ isVisible: false }), // the function to close the modal
    });
  }
  ...
}

Extra API

React Native Android Backer also provide the extra API which is easy to use the features of react-navigation but no need the navigation object:

• navigate(page: string): navigate to some page
• goBack(): go back to latest page
• getCurrentRoute(): get the current page object

Example:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { navigationServer } from 'react-native-android-backer';
 
class Foo extends Component {
  ...
  handleGoto = () => {
    navigationServer.navigate('Bar');
  }
 
  handleGoBack = () => {
    navigationServer.goBack();
  }
 
  getCurrentPage = () => {
    const currentPage = navigationServer.getCurrentRoute();
    // currentPage: {
    //   "key": "id-1552444588477-2",
    //   "params": {
    //     "disableBack": true,
    //   },
    //   "routeName": "Settings",
    // }
  }
  ...
}

Demo

LICENSE

Apache-2.0