react-native-androw

NOTE

This version is still under development and in beta.

Motivation

The problem is that a shadows does not work with React Native in Android. This view takes its children's, creates a bitmap representation, blur it and color it to styles shadow values like in iOS

Whats new

Verison 0.0.33

• Fixed pixel density on Android devices to better match iOS devices shadows.

Verison 0.0.32

• Fixed crash bug with multiple androw views, increased the performace when fading in multiple images at the same time.

Verison 0.0.31

• Added support for React Native 0.60.x and Android X

Verison 0.0.30

• Fixed shadow render problem with multiple Androw views and multiple image elements.

Limitations

• Android has a bitmap limitation of 2048x2048, but this might depend on API version.
• This plugin uses Software layer and might experience performance issues.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-androw --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-androw

Usage

import Androw from 'react-native-androw';

<Androw style={styles.shadow}>
  {//Act as a regular view but with shadow support in Android}
</Androw>

const styles = Stylesheet.create({
  shadow:{
      shadowColor: '#000000',
      shadowOffset:{
		width: 5, 
        height: 5,
      },
      shadowOpacity:.5,
      shadowRadius: .3
    }
});

Usage with Flatlist

To make this work with FlatList and related components you need to replace CellRendererComponent with Androw, for example:

<FlatList
  data={this.state.data}
  keyExtractor={item => item.id}
  CellRendererComponent={Androw}
  renderItem={({ item, index }) => (
      <Androw style={styles.item}>
      // item....
      </Androw>
   )}
/>

Usage with Animated Views

To make this work in place of an Animated.View, you need to use Animated.createAnimatedComponent to create an animatable version of Androw. For example:

import Androw from 'react-native-androw';
const AnimatedAndrow = Animated.createAnimatedComponent(Androw);

You can then use AnimatedAndrow in place of Animated.View.

Manual installation

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

• Add import se.folof.androw.RNAndrowPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNAndrowPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

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

   include ':react-native-androw'
   project(':react-native-androw').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-androw/android')

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

     implementation project(':react-native-androw')