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react-native-guide-tips

This module is used to guide your new comers throughout your app. Easily and Effectively.

Ios	Android

Update to v0.0.8 - Deprecation warning

• onRequestNext is deprecated. It will be removed in the next update. Be sure to replace it by onRequestClose which does the same thing.

How to install

# Install via npm
npm install react-native-guide-tips --save

# Install via yarn
yarn add react-native-guide-tips

How to use it

To use it, just import it directly into your components

import Tips from 'react-native-guide-tips'

Example

The most basic example of this module is to use it like this :

import React from 'react'
import { View, Button } from 'react-native'
import Tips from 'react-native-guide-tips'


const MyButton = (props = {}) => (
  <View>
    <Tips
      visible
      text="This is a tips !"
    >
      <Button title="Hello world !">
    </Tips>
  </View>
)

export default MyButton

Configuration

Properties of Tips:

Property	Type	Requirement	Description
children	node	Optional	The Tips children are elements that will be highlighted when the tips will be visible
childrenStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the container of the children
content	node	Optional	Use this property if you want to add more than a simple text inside your Tips.
contentStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the content of the Modal (used for positioning the highlighted elements and tips)
delay	Number	Optional (default: 250)	Add a delay before showing the Tips
modalStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the Modal Component (react-native)
offsetLeft	Number	Optional	Add an offset on the Tips in x axis.
offsetTop	Number	Optional	Add an offset on the Tips in y axis.
onRequestClose	function	Optional	Triggered when the user taps on the screen.
onRequestNext	function	Deprecated !!! Optional	Deprecated !!! Use onRequestClose instead. (See #waterfall-tips for more.)
position	enum (top, left, right, bottom or none)	Default: top	Define the position of your tips related to their children.
style	Object	Optional	Override the style of your tips
text	String	Optional	Text inside the Tips.
textStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the text inside the Tips
tooltipArrowStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the arrow outside the Tips
tooltipContainerStyle	Object	Optional	Override the style of the container of your tips (used for positionning)
visible	Boolean	Default: false	Set the visibility of your Tips
enableChildrenInteraction	Boolean	Default: false	If set to true, interation with children won't close the Tips

Waterfall Tips

You sometimes need to show tips one after another. This module has a helper to execute this scheme. You can use new Tips.Waterfall() to create a new helper that helps you to show/hide tips in a waterfall manner.

import React, { PureComponent } from 'react'
import { View, Button, Text } from 'react-native'
import Tips from 'react-native-guide-tips'


export default class MyButton extends PureComponent {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)

    // 1st step - Create your helper with keys that will represent your tips
    this.waterfallTips = new Tips.Waterfall([
      'myTips1', 'myTips2'
    ])

    this.state = {
      tipsVisible: null
    }

    // This method will trigger the changement of tips
    this.handleNextTips = this.handleNextTips.bind(this)
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    // the 'start' method will set the first Tips key into your state.
    this.setState({
      tipsVisible: this.waterfallTips.start()
    })
  }

  handleNextTips() {
    // the 'next' method will set the next tips key into your state until it has no more keys.
    this.setState({
      tipsVisible: this.waterfallTips.next()
    })
  }

  render() {
    const { tipsVisible } = this.state

    return (
      <View>
        <Tips
          visible={tipsVisible === 'myTips1'}
          onRequestClose={this.handleNextTips}
        >
          <Button text="My button">
        </Tips>

        <Tips
          visible={tipsVisible === 'myTips2'}
          onRequestClose={this.handleNextTips}
        >
          <Text>My text</Text>
        </Tips>
      </View>
    )
  }
}

Use Tips only one time

In most of the cases, you only want these tips when the user arrives for the first time on your app or when your app has been updated. It is possible to do this with the Waterfall Tips helper :

  this.waterfallTips = new Tips.Waterfall(
    ['myTips1', 'myTips2'],
    {
      onEnd: async () => {
        await AsyncStorage.setItem('@Tips', true)
      }
    }
  )

  const isWaterfallAlreadyFinished = await AsyncStorage.getItem('@Tips')

  if (isWaterfallAlreadyFinished) {
    this.waterfallTips.options.disabled = true
  }

Options can be instanciated at the constructor or wherever you want.

methods of Tips.Waterfall:

Method	Description
new Tips.Waterfall(indexes: Array< String >, options: optionsObject): Tips.Waterfall	Instanciate a new waterfallTips helper.
start(): String	Start the waterfall and set the first index as the current index.
isVisible(index: String): Boolean	Check if the index passed in parameter is the current index.
createIndex(index: String): String	Create a new index key.
next(): String	Set the next index as the current index. If it was the last key, the value will be null
previous(): String	Set the previous index as the current index. If it was the first key, the value will be the first key.

options of Tips.Waterfall:

Name	Type	Description
onIndexChange	Function (index: Boolean)	Triggered when the index has changed.
onEnd	Function	Triggered when all tips have been shown.
disabled	Boolean	If true, the index will always return null and no Tips will be shown.