How to add a button in React Native?

I´m confused with this whole "no CSS" thing, but I understand why it's beneficial. All I want to do is place a button in the middle of the screen but I don't understand how styling works in React yet. This is my code:

var tapSpeed = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.welcome}>
          Tap me as fast as you can!
        </Text>
        <View style={styles.button}>
        !
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
});

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#FFCCCC'
  },
  welcome: {
    fontSize: 20,
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 10
  },
  button: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    color: '#ffffff',
    marginBottom: 7,
    border: 1px solid blue,
    borderRadius: 2px
  }
});

Solution 1:

Update: use built-in Button component.

Deprecated:

Wrap your View into TouchableHighlight for iOS and TouchableNativeFeedback for Android.

var {
  Platform,
  TouchableHighlight,
  TouchableNativeFeedback 
} = React;

var tapSpeed = React.createClass({
  buttonClicked: function() {
    console.log('button clicked');
  },
  render: function() {
    var TouchableElement = TouchableHighlight;
    if (Platform.OS === 'android') {
     TouchableElement = TouchableNativeFeedback;
    }
    return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Text style={styles.welcome}>
        Tap me as fast as you can!
      </Text>
      <TouchableElement
        style={styles.button}
        onPress={this.buttonClicked.bind(this)}>
        <View>
          <Text style={styles.buttonText}>Button!</Text>
        </View>
      </TouchableElement>        
    </View>
    );
  }
});

Solution 2:

You can use built in react-native Button element.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, View, Button, Alert, AppRegistry } from 'react-native';

class MainApp extends Component {

_onPress() {
  Alert.alert('on Press!');
 }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <View style={styles.buttonContainer}>
          <Button onPress={this._onPress} title="Hello" color="#FFFFFF" accessibilityLabel="Tap on Me"/>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF'
  },
  buttonContainer: {
    backgroundColor: '#2E9298',
    borderRadius: 10,
    padding: 10,
    shadowColor: '#000000',
    shadowOffset: {
      width: 0,
      height: 3
    },
    shadowRadius: 10,
    shadowOpacity: 0.25
  }
})

AppRegistry.registerComponent('MainApp', () => MainApp);

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Solution 3:

The react-native-button package provides a button that is styled like a native button. Install it with npm install react-native-button and use it in your component like this:

var Button = require('react-native-button');

var ExampleComponent = React.createClass({
  render() {
    return (
      <Button
        style={{borderWidth: 1, borderColor: 'blue'}}
        onPress={this._handlePress}>
        Press Me!
      </Button>
    );
  },

  _handlePress(event) {
    console.log('Pressed!');
  },
});

Solution 4:

You have two options to achieve a touchable component/button to handle user's events.

One is to use the built in Button Component. Check the docs here http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/button.html
Two use either TouchableHighlight or TouchableNativeFeedback or TouchableOpacity or TouchableWithoutFeedback. Think of this as a way for you to convert different areas of your app to tappable(clickable) or a way for you to create a custom button. Each component here is different based on how it behaves once it's tapped by the user. Check the docs for more details. http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/touchablewithoutfeedback.html etc.

Concerning styling in react native you will need to understand flexbox layout. Check this css flexbox article all rules are applicable to react-native https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ except that you will have to capitalize the rules e.g align-content to alignContent

Solution 5:

<Button
  onPress={onPressLearnMore}
  title="Learn More"
  color="#841584"
  accessibilityLabel="Learn more about this purple button"
/>