React Native's built-in components render slightly different on iOS and Android, causing you to spend extra time making the UI more consistent across devices. For example, did you know that when you create a fresh project using react-native init, the color of a <Text/> is by default #000000 on iOS and #808080 on Android?

This project provides you with slightly adjusted adaptions of built-in React Native components with the goal of being more consistent between platforms. Think of it as normalize.css for React Native.

To be clear, these are not bugs in React Native, rather RN opts to preserve the default behavior on each platform as much as possible. Nonetheless, you might prefer to use components that behave more consistently.

Usage

Simply import a normalized component from react-native-normalized instead of react-native:

import React from 'react'
-import {View, Text} from 'react-native'
+import {View} from 'react-native'
+import {Text} from 'react-native-normalized'

class App extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <View>
                <Text>Welcome to React Native Normalized!</Text>
            </View>
        )
    }
}

export default App;

APIs and Components

Alert

• Alert.alert() is by default not dismissable. The RN implementation is dismissable on Android but not on iOS.

✅ Since React Native v0.60, this is fixed!

<ActivityIndicator/>

<Image/>

• By default, on Android, an <Image/> fades in with a 300ms delay. With the normalized component, there is no fade animation.

<Text/>

<TextInput/>

Development and Ideas

Do you know of more components that could be made more consistent and that would fit well into this project? Let us know!

Currently we have two ideas for which we welcome code and comments:

• [x] ~~Consistent dismissal behavior for Alert.alert()~~ Implemented in v1.1.0
• [x] Consistent <Picker/>

Authors

This library is brought to you by Piyush Gupta and Jonny Burger.

License

MIT