react-native-androw
NOTE
This version is still under development and in beta.
Motivation
The problem is that a shadows does not work with React Native in Android. This view takes its children's, creates a bitmap representation, blur it and color it to styles shadow values like in iOS
Whats new
Verison 0.0.33
- Fixed pixel density on Android devices to better match iOS devices shadows.
Verison 0.0.32
- Fixed crash bug with multiple androw views, increased the performace when fading in multiple images at the same time.
Verison 0.0.31
- Added support for React Native 0.60.x and Android X
Verison 0.0.30
- Fixed shadow render problem with multiple Androw views and multiple image elements.
Limitations
- Android has a bitmap limitation of 2048x2048, but this might depend on API version.
- This plugin uses Software layer and might experience performance issues.
Getting started
$ npm install react-native-androw --save
Mostly automatic installation
$ react-native link react-native-androw
Usage
; <Androw style=stylesshadow> //Act as a regular view but with shadow support in Android}</Androw> const styles = Stylesheet;
Usage with Flatlist
To make this work with FlatList and related components you need to replace CellRendererComponent
with Androw
, for example:
<FlatList = = = =/>
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 Androw
. For example:
import Androw from 'react-native-androw';
const AnimatedAndrow = Animated.createAnimatedComponent(Androw);
You can then use AnimatedAndrow
in place of Animated.View
.
Manual installation
- Open up
android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java
- Add
import se.folof.RNAndrowPackage;
to the imports at the top of the file - Add
new RNAndrowPackage()
to the list returned by thegetPackages()
method
- Append the following lines to
android/settings.gradle
:include ':react-native-androw' project(':react-native-androw').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-androw/android')
- Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in
android/app/build.gradle
:implementation project(':react-native-androw')