react-native-selectable-text

Demo

Android

iOS

Usage

import { SelectableText } from "@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text";

// Use normally, it is a drop-in replacement for react-native/Text
<SelectableText
  menuItems={["Foo", "Bar"]}
  /* 
    Called when the user taps in a item of the selection menu:
    - eventType: (string) is the label
    - content: (string) the selected text portion
    - selectionStart: (int) is the start position of the selected text
    - selectionEnd: (int) is the end position of the selected text
   */
  onSelection={({ eventType, content, selectionStart, selectionEnd }) => {}}
  value="I crave star damage"
/>;

Getting started

$ npm install @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text

Manual installation

iOS - Binary Linking (Alternative 1)

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text and add RNSelectableText.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNSelectableText.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

iOS - Pods (Alternative 2)

1. Add pod 'RNSelectableText', :path => '../node_modules/@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text/ios/RNSelectableText.podspec' to your projects podfile
2. run pod install

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.astrocoders.selectabletext.RNSelectableTextPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNSelectableTextPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-selectable-text'
   project(':react-native-selectable-text').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text/android')

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-selectable-text')

Props

| name | description | type | default | |--|--|--|--| | value | text content | string | "" | | onSelection | Called when the user taps in a item of the selection menu | ({ eventType: string, content: string, selectionStart: int, selectionEnd: int }) => void | () => {} | | menuItems | context menu items | array(string) | [] | | style | additional styles to be applied to text | Object | null | | highlights | array of text ranges that should be highlighted with an optional id | array({ id: string, start: int, end: int }) | [] | | highlightColor | highlight color |string | null | | onHighlightPress | called when the user taps the highlight |(id: string) => void | () => {} | | appendToChildren | element to be added in the last line of text | ReactNode | null | | TextComponent | Text component used to render value | ReactNode | | | textValueProp | text value prop for TextComponent. Should be used when passing TextComponent. Defaults to 'children' which works for | string | 'children' | | textComponentProps | additional props to pass to TextComponent | object | null |