In this blog post, I will explain how to add a footer to your FlatList component in react native. If you are looking for how to add a header to your FlatList then check out my previous blog post. In some scenarios, adding a footer, which appears at the bottom of the FlatList component is … Read more
If your react native app shows some good amount of data to the user then most probably, you would be using FlatList component. FlatList is an enhanced component to render data in lists. In this blog post, I am writing about how to make the header component of FlatList sticky. First of all, how to … Read more
Picker component of react native is used for showing drop down menu in apps. If you are not satisfied with the picker component then you can use react native material dropdown component which works well on both Android and iOS platforms. The drop down component follows material design with ripple effects. You can install react … Read more
As a react native user, I prefer to run android emulator using the command line. Thus, I can avoid opening Android Studio. Sometimes, I can’t run the emulator as I face the following Android emulator error: emulator: ERROR: Running multiple emulators with the same AVD is an experimental feature. Please use -read-only flag to enable … Read more
In this blog post I will walk you through how to create a navigation drawer with custom content component in react native using navigation library react navigation. First of all add react navigation library to your react native project using the following command: npm install react-navigation Now, install react native gesture handler in your project … Read more
I came across this react native error when I tried to run my react native project with react-native run-android command after adding a third party library which made native changes. Here’s the error which caused the failure of the app build:java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Error while merg ing dex archives: The number of method references in … Read more
Performance of Android apps built with react native is a bit lower when compared to the performance of iOS apps. So how to increase the performance of Android apps built with react native? The answer is by enabling Hermes. Hermes is an open source JavaScript engine optimized for running react native Android apps. It helps … Read more
I created a new react native project with the latest react native version 0.60.3. But while running the project I found that my pc which runs on Ubuntu 18.0.4 got hanged at some point of time. I tried this several times but the result was the same for me. The resulted hang was the direct … Read more
When I was trying to add a third party library to my react native project using npm the following error was shown in the terminal. npm ERR! ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir ‘/media/rashid/B0305F9E305F6A7C/MyProject/node_modules/.react-native.DELETE/scripts’ As given in the error message it is saying node_modules/.react-native.DELETE/scripts folder is not empty. Hence I navigated to node modules but I … Read more
When we create a new react native project we prefer the latest version of react native. But in some situations, we might need to create a new project using specific react native version. This usually happens when the latest version of react native has many breaking changes and is unstable. react-native init ProjectName is the … Read more
While creating an authentication flow we usually don’t want the screens to navigate back. In such situations, we want a navigator which resets the navigation history while navigating. In this blog post, I will show you how to create a navigator without navigation history in React Native. Most of the react native projects out there … Read more
By default, the behavior of flatlist component of react native is to scroll. But, in some unusual situations, you may want to disable scrolling in react native flatlist. This blog post goes through how to disable scrolling in Flatlist. As you know, Flatlist inherits props of ScrollView component. Hence you can use the prop scrollEnabled … Read more
If you have react native made Android apps published on Google Play Store then you might have received email from Google Play Store telling to make your app 64 bit compliant. The email you got from Google Play Store starts as given below: Hello Google Play Developer,By August 1, 2019, all apps that use native … Read more
I created a new react native (v60.0) project and tried running by using command react-native run-android but faced Error: spawn vscode ENOENT error in the terminal as shown in the screenshot given below. I was running commands through the terminal of my IDE Visual Studio Code. In order to solve this react native issue, I … Read more
