React Native Walkthrough

Walkthrough

NOTE: This library is currently under development, and should primarly be considered as being in a beta stage.

React Native Walkthrough is an app-wide walkthrough library, with a minimal footprint.

Installation

yarn add react-native-walkthrough

Roadmap

• Move library to Typescript (soon!)
• add ability to pass external EventEmitter instance via props
• add props for changing timeout durations
• ???

Basic Usage

React Native Walkthrough exports the following:

• WalkthroughProvider component
• WalkthroughElement component
• startWalkthrough function
• dispatchWalkthroughEvent function
• goToWalkthroughElementWithId function

WalkthroughProvider

First, you will need to wrap your entire app in the WalkthroughProvider component (no props or additional config required)

import { WalkthroughProvider } from 'react-native-walkthrough';
 
render() {
  return (
    <WalkthroughProvider>
      <YourAppHere />
    </WalkthroughProvider>
  )  
}

WalkthroughElement

When you wish to highlight something as a part of a Walkthrough, you simply wrap the component in a WalkthroughElement and give it a unique id.

import { WalkthroughElement } from 'react-native-walkthrough';
 
<WalkthroughElement id="profile-button">   // just add this!
  <TouchableOpacity
    style={styles.profileButton}
    onPress={() => navigate('Profile', {name: 'Jane'})}
  >
    <Text>{"Go to Jane's profile"}</Text>
  </TouchableOpacity>
</WalkthroughElement>

This library utilizes react-native-walkthrough-tooltip to render the content bubbles that point to a WalkthroughElement. You can edit the content of the tooltip in the walkthrough guide, or by providing the optional content prop directly on the WalkthroughElement component.

startWalkthrough

Function that accepts a walkthrough guide array and begins the walkthrough by setting the current element as the first element from the walkthrough guide array. Learn about walkthrough guides here

import { startWalkthrough } from 'react-native-walkthrough';
 
import profileWalkthrough from '../guides/profileWalkthrough';
 
<TouchableOpacity
  onPress={() => startWalkthrough(profileWalkthrough)}
>
  <Text>{"Show me how to view a profile"}</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>

dispatchWalkthroughEvent

Function that accepts a string event name. Walkthrough events are used to wait-then-show the next element in a walkthrough. Add a triggerEvent to the walkthrough element in a guide, then be sure to dispatch the walkthrough event when it occurs to trigger the tooltip to be displayed.

import { NavigationEvents } from 'react-navigation';
import { dispatchWalkthroughEvent } from 'react-native-walkthrough';
 
render (
  <React.Fragment>
    <NavigationEvents
      onDidFocus={() => dispatchWalkthroughEvent('profile-focus')}
    />
    ...
  </React.Fragment>
)

goToWalkthroughElementWithId

Function that accepts a string element id. Finds the first element in the current walkthrough with a matching id and sets that element as the current element.

import { goToWalkthroughElementWithId } from 'react-native-walkthrough';
 
 
<TouchableOpacity
  onPress={() => goToWalkthroughElementWithId('step-3')}
>
  <Text>{"Skip to next step"}</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>
 

Creating a Walkthrough Guide

A walkthrough guide is simply an array of objects, where each object correlates to a WalkthroughElement. Each element object in the guide must have an id and content to display in the tooltip bubble.

Example guide

import React from 'react';
import {View, Text, StyleSheet} from 'react-native';
 
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  tooltipView: {
    paddingHorizontal: 24,
    paddingVertical: 8,
  },
  tooltipText: {
    color: 'black',
    fontSize: 18,
  },
});
 
const makeTooltipContent = text => (
  <View style={styles.tooltipView}>
    <Text style={styles.tooltipText}>{text}</Text>
  </View>
);
 
export default [
  {
    id: 'profile-button',
    content: makeTooltipContent('Tap here to view a profile'),
  },
  {
    id: 'profile-name',
    content: makeTooltipContent("Here is the user's name"),
    placement: 'bottom',
    triggerEvent: 'profile-focus',
  },
];

Guide values

Key	Type	Required	Description
content	function/Element	YES	This is the view displayed in the tooltip popover bubble
id	string	YES	id string that matches the corresponding WalkthroughElement
placement	string	NO	Determines placement of tooltip in relation to the element it is wrapping
possibleOutcomes	array	NO	An array of objects with keys (event, action) that creates event listeners for multiple events to provide the ability to have an outcome tree that responds to a user's actions (listens to events dispatched via dispatchWalkthroughEvent
tooltipProps	object	NO	additional props to customize the tooltip functionality and style
triggerEvent	string	NO	string event id, this element will not appear until the triggerEvent is dispatched via dispatchWalkthroughEvent

To learn more about placement options and all the options for tooltipProps view the react-native-walkthrough-tooltip README