Hide/Show components in react native

Question

I\'m really new to React Native and I\'m wondering how can I hide/show a component.
Here\'s my test case:

Answer 1

I had the same issue where I would want to show / hide Views, but I really didn't want the UI jumping around when things were added/removed or necessarily to deal with re-rendering.

I wrote a simple Component to deal with it for me. Animated by default, but easy to toggle. I put it on GitHub and NPM with a readme, but all the code is below.

npm install --save react-native-hideable-view

import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
import { Animated  } from 'react-native';

class HideableView extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      opacity: new Animated.Value(this.props.visible ? 1 : 0)
    }
  }

  animate(show) {
    const duration = this.props.duration ? parseInt(this.props.duration) : 500;
    Animated.timing(
      this.state.opacity, {
        toValue: show ? 1 : 0,
        duration: !this.props.noAnimation ? duration : 0
      }
    ).start();
  }

  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps) {
    return this.props.visible !== nextProps.visible;
  }

  componentWillUpdate(nextProps, nextState) {
    if (this.props.visible !== nextProps.visible) {
      this.animate(nextProps.visible);
    }
  }

  render() {
    if (this.props.removeWhenHidden) {
      return (this.visible && this.props.children);
    }
    return (
      <Animated.View style={{opacity: this.state.opacity}}>
        {this.props.children}
      </Animated.View>
    )
  }
}

HideableView.propTypes = {
  visible: PropTypes.bool.isRequired,
  duration: PropTypes.number,
  removeWhenHidden: PropTypes.bool,
  noAnimation: PropTypes.bool
}

export default HideableView;

Answer 2

React Native's layout has the display property support, similar to CSS. Possible values: none and flex (default). https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/layout-props#display

<View style={{display: 'none'}}> </View>

Answer 3

The following example is coding in typescript with Hooks.

import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";

........

const App = () => {

   const [showScrollView, setShowScrollView] = useState(false);

   ......

   const onPress = () => {
    // toggle true or false
    setShowScrollView(!showScrollView);
  }

  ......

      </MapboxGL.ShapeSource>
        <View>{showScrollView ? (<DetailsScrollView />) : null}</View>
      </MapboxGL.MapView>
  ......

}

Answer 4

Very Easy. Just change to () => this.showCancel() like below:

<TextInput
        onFocus={() => this.showCancel() }
        onChangeText={(text) => this.doSearch({input: text})} />

<TouchableHighlight 
    onPress={this.hideCancel()}>
    <View>
        <Text style={styles.cancelButtonText}>Cancel</Text>
    </View>
</TouchableHighlight>

Answer 5

The only way to show or hide a component in react native is checking a value of a parameter of app state like state or props. I provided a complete example as below:

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {View,Text,TextInput,TouchableHighlight} from 'react-native'

class App extends Component {

    constructor(props){
        super(props);
        this.state={
            show:false
        }
}

    showCancel=()=>{
        this.setState({show:true})
    };

    hideCancel=()=>{
        this.setState({show:false})
    };

    renderTouchableHighlight(){
        if(this.state.show){
           return(
               <TouchableHighlight
                   style={{borderColor:'black',borderWidth:1,marginTop:20}}
                   onPress={this.hideCancel}>
                   <View>
                       <Text>Cancel</Text>
                   </View>
               </TouchableHighlight>
           )
        }
        return null;
    }

    render() {


        return (
            <View style={{justifyContent:'center',alignItems:'center',flex:1}}>
                <TextInput
                    style={{borderColor:'black',borderBottomWidth:1}}
                    onFocus={this.showCancel}
                />
                {this.renderTouchableHighlight()}

            </View>
        );
    }
}

export default App;

Answer 6

Most of the time i'm doing something like this :

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {isHidden: false};
    this.onPress = this.onPress.bind(this);
  }
  onPress() {
    this.setState({isHidden: !this.state.isHidden})
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.myStyle}>

        {this.state.isHidden ? <ToHideAndShowComponent/> : null}

        <Button title={this.state.isHidden ? "SHOW" : "HIDE"} onPress={this.onPress} />
      </View>
    );
  }
}

If you're kind of new to programming, this line must be strange to you :

{this.state.isHidden ? <ToHideAndShowComponent/> : null}

This line is equivalent to

if (this.state.isHidden)
{
  return ( <ToHideAndShowComponent/> );
}
else
{
  return null;
}

But you can't write an if/else condition in JSX content (e.g. the return() part of a render function) so you'll have to use this notation.

This little trick can be very useful in many cases and I suggest you to use it in your developments because you can quickly check a condition.

Regards,