react-native-view-overflow

Motivation

The problem is that a parent View in Android will clip the content of children Views (react-native)

This solves the problem of Overflow on Android (check this facebook/react-native#16951)

This could make code simpler, so you don't need to move some Components outside parents to make layout work

You can read more about the motivation and this package here https://medium.com/@sibelius/solving-view-overflow-in-android-reactnative-f961752a75cd

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-view-overflow --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-view-overflow

Usage

import ViewOverflow from 'react-native-view-overflow';

<ViewOverflow>
    <ComponentToEnableOverflow />
</ViewOverflow>

Manual installation

iOS

via CocoaPods:

1. Open comand line in your project IOS folder, and run command pod install.
2. Run your project (Cmd+R)

or via Libraries:

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-view-overflow and add RNViewOverflow.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNViewOverflow.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/[...]/MainActivity.java

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

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

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

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

     compile project(':react-native-view-overflow')
   

Windows

Read it! :D

1. In Visual Studio add the RNViewOverflow.sln in node_modules/react-native-view-overflow/windows/RNViewOverflow.sln folder to their solution, reference from their app.
2. Open up your MainPage.cs app

• Add using View.Overflow.RNViewOverflow; to the usings at the top of the file
• Add new RNViewOverflowPackage() to the List<IReactPackage> returned by the Packages method