React Native Quick Actions
Support for the new 3D Touch home screen quick actions for your React Native apps!
This project currently supports iOS 9+ and Android 7

Installing
$ yarn add react-native-quick-actions
$ react-native link react-native-quick-actions
Additional steps on iOS
Add the following lines to your AppDelegate.m
file:
#import "RNQuickActionManager.h"
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application performActionForShortcutItem:(UIApplicationShortcutItem *)shortcutItem completionHandler:(void (^)(BOOL succeeded)) completionHandler {
[RNQuickActionManager onQuickActionPress:shortcutItem completionHandler:completionHandler];
}
Manual Linking on Android
Add the following to app/build.gradle
within the dependencies { ... }
section
implementation project(':react-native-quick-actions')
Add import com.reactNativeQuickActions.AppShortcutsPackage;
to your MainApplication.java
Also add new AppShortcutsPackage()
within the
public List<ReactPackage> createAdditionalReactPackages() {
return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
...
);
}
section of MainApplication.java
Usage
Adding static quick actions - iOS only
Add these entries into to your Info.plist
file and replace the generic stuff (Action Title, .action, etc):
<key>UIApplicationShortcutItems</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>UIApplicationShortcutItemIconType</key>
<string>UIApplicationShortcutIconTypeLocation</string>
<key>UIApplicationShortcutItemTitle</key>
<string>Action Title</string>
<key>UIApplicationShortcutItemType</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER).action</string>
</dict>
</array>
A full list of available icons can be found here:
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/icons-and-images/system-icons/#quick-action-icons
Adding dynamic quick actions
In order to add / remove dynamic actions during application lifecycle, you need to import react-native-quick-actions
and call either setShortcutItems
to set actions or clearShortcutItems
to clear.
import QuickActions from "react-native-quick-actions";
QuickActions.setShortcutItems([
{
type: "Orders",
title: "See your orders",
subtitle: "See orders you've made",
icon: "Compose",
userInfo: {
url: "app://orders"
}
}
]);
NOTE Currently android only supports a url
key in userInfo
. No other keys are supported. See #93 for more information.
To clear actions:
QuickActions.clearShortcutItems();
Icons
iOS
On iOS you can use the default icons provided by Apple, they're listed here: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/icons-and-images/system-icons/#quick-action-icons
You can also use custom icons creating new Image set inside Image.xcassets on XCode. You'll need to define the 1x, 2x and 3x sizes.

Android
On Android you'll need to create an image file (use PNG) inside android/app/src/main/res/drawable
.
Name the image with underscores, don't use hyphens.
Listening for quick actions
First, you'll need to make sure DeviceEventEmitter
is added to the list of
requires for React Native.
import { DeviceEventEmitter } from "react-native";
Use DeviceEventEmitter
to listen for quickActionShortcut
messages.
DeviceEventEmitter.addListener("quickActionShortcut", data => {
console.log(data.title);
console.log(data.type);
console.log(data.userInfo);
});
To get any actions sent when the app is cold-launched using the following code:
import QuickActions from "react-native-quick-actions";
function doSomethingWithTheAction(data) {
console.log(data.title);
console.log(data.type);
console.log(data.userInfo);
}
QuickActions.popInitialAction()
.then(doSomethingWithTheAction)
.catch(console.error);
Please note that on Android if android:launchMode is set to default value standard in AndroidManifest.xml, the app will be re-created each time when app is being brought back from background and it won't receive quickActionShortcut event from DeviceEventEmitter, instead popInitialAction will be receiving the app shortcut event.
Check if 3D Touch is supported
The following function will alert you if the user's device supports 3D Touch. Please
note this project currently only supports iOS 9+ which means this code will not
work on iOS devices running versions < 9.0.
import QuickActions from "react-native-quick-actions";
QuickActions.isSupported((error, supported) => {
if (!supported) {
console.log("Device does not support 3D Touch or 3D Touch is disabled.");
}
});
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Jordan Byron (http://github.com/jordanbyron/)
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