react-native-modal

What is react-native-modal?

react-native-modal is a customizable modal component for React Native applications. It provides a variety of features to create modals with different animations, styles, and behaviors.

What are react-native-modal's main functionalities?

Basic Modal

This code demonstrates a basic modal that can be toggled on and off with a button. The modal contains a simple text and a button to hide the modal.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Button } from 'react-native';
import Modal from 'react-native-modal';

const BasicModalExample = () => {
  const [isModalVisible, setModalVisible] = useState(false);

  const toggleModal = () => {
    setModalVisible(!isModalVisible);
  };

  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
      <Button title="Show Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
      <Modal isVisible={isModalVisible}>
        <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
          <Text>Hello!</Text>
          <Button title="Hide Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
        </View>
      </Modal>
    </View>
  );
};

export default BasicModalExample;

Custom Animation

This code demonstrates a modal with custom animations. The modal slides in from the left and slides out to the right.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Button } from 'react-native';
import Modal from 'react-native-modal';

const CustomAnimationModalExample = () => {
  const [isModalVisible, setModalVisible] = useState(false);

  const toggleModal = () => {
    setModalVisible(!isModalVisible);
  };

  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
      <Button title="Show Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
      <Modal isVisible={isModalVisible} animationIn="slideInLeft" animationOut="slideOutRight">
        <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
          <Text>Custom Animation!</Text>
          <Button title="Hide Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
        </View>
      </Modal>
    </View>
  );
};

export default CustomAnimationModalExample;

Backdrop Customization

This code demonstrates a modal with a customized backdrop. The backdrop color is set to red with an opacity of 0.8.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, Button } from 'react-native';
import Modal from 'react-native-modal';

const BackdropCustomizationModalExample = () => {
  const [isModalVisible, setModalVisible] = useState(false);

  const toggleModal = () => {
    setModalVisible(!isModalVisible);
  };

  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
      <Button title="Show Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
      <Modal isVisible={isModalVisible} backdropColor="red" backdropOpacity={0.8}>
        <View style={{ flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
          <Text>Custom Backdrop!</Text>
          <Button title="Hide Modal" onPress={toggleModal} />
        </View>
      </Modal>
    </View>
  );
};

export default BackdropCustomizationModalExample;

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README

react-native-modal

A <Modal> component for react-native. This is still very much a work in progress and only handles the simplest of cases, ideas and contributions are very welcome.

Add it to your project

1. Run npm install react-native-modal --save
2. var Modal = require('react-native-modal');
3. At the bottom of your app, add the <Modal> element and use its isVisible prop to toggle visibility. It needs to be at the bottom so that it appears above all other components when it is visible.

Example

See react-native-login for an example, where it is used to produce this: