react-native-custom-tabs-shim

Wrapper for react-native-custom-tabs that allows applinks to be opened in the native app.

It checks if a given url is supported by any extra apps compared to a baseline (http://example.com) and, if so, opens it directly instead.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-custom-tabs-shim --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-custom-tabs-shim

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-custom-tabs-shim and add RNCustomTabsShim.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNCustomTabsShim.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

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

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

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

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

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

     compile project(':react-native-custom-tabs-shim')

Usage

import * as RNCustomTabs from "react-native-custom-tabs"
import RNCustomTabsShim from "react-native-custom-tabs-shim"

const {CustomTabs, ANIMATIONS_FADE} = RNCustomTabsShim(RNCustomTabs)

const url = "https://www.netflix.com" // opens in netflix app
// const url = "https://example.com" // opens in custom tab

const options = {
  toolbarColor: '#607D8B',
  enableUrlBarHiding: true,
  showPageTitle: true,
  enableDefaultShare: true,
  animations: ANIMATIONS_FADE,
}

CustomTabs.openURL(url, options)