react-native-ios-context-menu

A small component for using context menu's on iOS.

🚧⚠️ Documentation WIP ⚠️🚧

📝 Note: See TODO.md for progress.

• The documentation is incomplete (some parts/sections are marked as TBA i.e. "to be added").
• Some of the links in the documentation are broken (i.e. the URL points to PLACE_HOLDER_LINK).
• Some of the gifs/images are old, or broken.
• For now, please see the Usage And Examples section, and Showcase, Tests and Demos section for information on how to use this library.

Notice
📝 Note #1: Version 3.x is a rewrite of this library to support both fabric (the new architecture), and offer backwards compatibility to paper (the old architecture). Support for the new architecture (fabric), and backwards compatibility for the old architecture (paper) is handled via a peer via a peer dependency to react-native-ios-utilites@v5.
📝 Note #2: The documentation + examples are currently being rewritten. ❤️ README-old-v1.md — Documentation for v1.x 🧡 README-old-v2.md — Documentation for v2.x 💛 example/src/examples — The typescript rewrite of the examples (WIP).

Versions

Library Version	Compatibility
3.x+	Depends on react-native-ios-utilities@5.x Depends on ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview iOS 13+ Xcode 15+
2.1	Uses Expo-Modules Depends on react-native-ios-utilities@4.x Depends on ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview iOS 13+ Xcode 15+
2.0.x	Uses Expo-Modules Depends on react-native-ios-utilities@4.x iOS 13+ Xcode 15+
1.6.2	iOS 10 to iOS 15 Xcode 12+
1.4	iOS 10 to iOS 15 Xcode 13+
1.3 and Below	iOS 10 to 14 Xcode 12+

Table of Contents

Sections and Links
A. Introduction • Gifs and Demos • Features
B. Installation • Expo • Troubleshooting --• Xcode Build Error (Swift) --• Xcode Build Error (Undefined symbol)
C. Basic Usage
D. Documentation • D.1. Components --• ContextMenuView Component ----• Props ----• Event Props ----• Properties/Methods ----• Experimental - Aux. Preview --• ContextMenuButton Component ----• Props ----• Event Props ----• Properties/Methods • D.2. Context --• ContextMenuButtonContext --• ContextMenuButtonContext • D.3. Hooks --• useMenuContext --• useMenuButtonContext • D.4. Objects and Types --• MenuConfig.ts ----• Object Type: MenuConfig ----• Object Type: MenuActionConfig ----• Object Type: DeferredMenuElementConfig ----• String Union: MenuAttributes ----• String Union: MenuState ----• String Union: UIMenuOptions --• MenuPreviewConfig.ts ----• Object Type: MenuPreviewConfig ----• String Union: ContextMenuInteractionCommitStyle ----• String Union: MenuPreviewSize ----• String Union: MenuPreviewType --• MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig.ts ----• Object Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig ----• String Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewAnchorPosition ----• String Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewHorizontalAlignment ----• String Union Type: UIViewAnimateOptions ----• Object Type: UIViewAnimateConfig ----• Object Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewBaseTransitionConfig ----• Object Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionConfig ----• Mixed Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionEntranceDelay --• MenuIconConfig.ts --• ImageItemConfig.ts ----• Object Type: ImageItemConfig ----• Object Type: ImageResolvedAssetSource ----• Object Type: ImageRectConfig ----• Object Type: ImageGradientConfig ----• Object Type: ImageSystemConfig --• Undocumented Types • D.5. Constants
E. Usage And Examples 📝 Note: See Example Index section for a complete list of examples + their descriptions.
F. Showcase, Tests and Demos
G. Meta
H. Licence

TOC: Examples Index

Examples
📌 ContextMenuView Example 01 💭 Summary: A basic context menu that has 3 menu action items.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 02 💭 Summary: Icon Example — A basic context menu that has 3 menu action items, each with a different "SF Symbols" icon. This examples shows how to add a system icon in the context menu action.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 03 💭 Summary: Nested Menu — This example shows a context menu that has a submenu item inside its list of menu actions.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 04 💭 Summary: Menu Attributes — This example context menu showcases the MenuActionConfig.menuAttributes property.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 05 💭 Summary: Nested Menu + Menu Attributes — A context menu that has a in-line submenu.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 06 💭 Summary: Menu Options — A context menu that has a destructive submenu.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 07 💭 Summary: Menu Options — A context menu that set to be both "destructive" and "display in-line".
📌 ContextMenuView Example 08 💭 Summary: Menu State — A context menu with 3 actions that has 'on', 'off', and 'mixed' menuState.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 09 💭 Summary: Events — An example for the onPressMenuItem event prop.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 10 💭 Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing how to dynamically update the context menu while it's visible. In this example, the menu action changes every time the counter increments every second.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 11 💭 Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing how to use a custom preview for the context menu.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 12 💭 Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing a custom context menu preview that dynamically changes its size due to its contents updating every second.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 13 💭 Summary: Menu Action — An example showing how to add a subtitle to menu action.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 14 💭 Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example that changes the exit transition of the context menu preview when its tapped using the preferredCommitStyle config.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 15 💭 Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing how to configure a context menu that uses targeted previews.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 15-02 💭 Summary: Context Menu Previews (Cont). — An example showing how to configure a context menu that uses targeted previews + WrapperView.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 16 💭 Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with an action that uses a 'IMAGE_ASSET' image for its icon.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 17 💭 Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with action items that have different colored icons.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 18 💭 Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with action items that has icons that uses local image assets imported via require(...).
📌 ContextMenuView Example 19 💭 Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing a context menu that has a loading indicator using deferred menu elements.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 20 💭 Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing a state-controlled context menu that shows a loading indicator using deferred menu elements.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 21 💭 Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Example 22 💭 Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Example 23 💭 Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Example 24 💭 Summary: Menu Attributes — keepsMenuPresented
📌 ContextMenuView Example 25 💭 Summary: Icon Example — Advanced customization (E.g. scale, weight, paletteColors, hierarchicalColor).
📌 ContextMenuView Example 26 💭 Summary: Icon Example — Network/Remote images as icons.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 27 💭 Summary: Icon Example — Network/Remote images as icons + fallback image.
📌 ContextMenuView Example 28 💭 Summary: Programmatically shows the context menu.
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 01 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 02 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 03 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 04 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 05 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 06 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 07 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 08 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 09 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 10 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 11 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 12 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 13 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 14 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 15 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 16 💭 Summary: Programmatically shows the auxiliary preview as a popover (w/o showing the context menu).
📌 ContextMenuButton Example 01 💭 Summary: TBA
📌 ContextMenuButton Example 02 💭 Summary: TBA

Acknowledgements

Development and maintenance of this library was generously sponsored by beatgig from 11/15/2023 to 04/30/2024 at $1,535/month (totaling ≈ $9,100 over the course of 6 months) 🥁🎸

The initial fabric rewrite (i.e. version 3.x) was made possible through a generous $3,750 sponsorship by natew + tamagui over the course of 4 months (from: 05/27/24 to 09/30/24) 🐦✨

very special thanks to: junzhengca, brentvatne, and expo for sponsoring my work 🥺 (if you have the extra means to do so, please considering sponsoring here)

A. Introduction

A react native component to use UIMenu on iOS 13 and later.

Gifs and Demos

📝 Note: These gifs are from an older version of the library running on iOS 13 (see Usage And Examples section for updated example gifs).

ContextMenuView Examples, Left: Example 1, Example 2, and Right: Example 3, Example 4

ContextMenuView examples, Left: Example 5, Example 6, and Right: Example 7, Example 8

ContextMenuView example, Left: Example 9, and Right: Example 10

ContextMenuView examples, Left: Example 11, Example 12, and Right: Example 13, Example 14

ContextMenuView examples, Left: Example 15, Example 16, and Right: Example 17, Example 18

ContextMenuView tests, Left: Test 1, and Right: Test 2

ContextMenuView tests, Left: Test 3, and Right: Test 4

ContextMenuView tests, Left: Test 5, and Right: Test 6

ContextMenuView tests, Left/Right: Test 7

ContextMenuView ActionSheetIOS fallback for simple example 1 to 9

ContextMenuView ActionSheetIOS fallback for context menu view test 1 to 6 (removed in v3.x+).

ContextMenuButton examples, Left: Example 1, and Right: Example 2

Features

• Support for creating menu actions and submenus (i.e. nested and in-line menus).
• Support for customizing the menu icons (i.e. support for SF Symbols, require(image), and xcasset icons, icon tint, etc).
• Extensive support for SF Symbols configuration (e.g. pointSize, weight, scale, hierarchicalColor, paletteColors).
• Support for iOS 14 functionality (like the UIButton context menu, dynamically updating the menu while it's visible, etc).
• Support for setting (almost) all of the native UIMenu and UIAction properties (e.g. UIMenuElementState, MenuElementAtrributes, discoverabilityTitle, etc.)
• Basic ActionSheetIOS menu fallback for iOS 12 and below (removed in v3.x+).
• Support for creating custom context menu previews (with support for dynamic or fixed preview sizes, setting the UIPreviewParameters, specifying a UITargetedPreview, etc).
• Support for custom auxiliary previews (experimental).
• Support for deferred context menu items.

B. Installation

# 1. install library + dependencies
npm install react-native-ios-utilities@next
npm install react-native-ios-context-menu@next

# 2. then run pod install (uses auto-linking)
cd ios && pod install

📝 Note A: You might encounter some build errors since this library is written in swift, so there's some extra step involved to use this library (see table below for reference).

📝 Note B: If you want to use an older or different version of this library, please refer to versions section's compatibility table.

Additional Steps
1️⃣ Add an empty swift file to your project
2️⃣ Update the project's "Library Search Paths" build settings

Installation (Experimental Version)

# 1. install library + dependencies
npm install react-native-ios-utilities@next
npm install react-native-ios-context-menu@next


# 2. then run pod install (uses auto-linking)
cd ios && pod install

Updating

This library has cocoapods dependency to ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview and DGSwiftUtilities, so you may need to update them separately (as needed).

# A. Either update this specific pod...
pod update ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview DGSwiftUtilities
pod install --repo-update

# B. Or update all the pods
pod update

Expo

• ✅ You can use this library with Development Builds. No config plugin is required.
• ❌ This library can't be used in the "Expo Go" app because it requires custom native code.

Versions and Dependencies

Library Version	Dependencies + Versions
2.0.x	react-native-ios-utilities - 4.x
2.1.x	react-native-ios-utilities - 4.x ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview - 0.1.x
2.2.x	react-native-ios-utilities - 4.x ContextMenuAuxiliaryPreview - 0.2.x

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any errors/bugs while using this library, or want a particular feature implemented, please create an issue (my inbox is a mess, please feel free to tag me). ✨

Troubleshooting: Xcode Build Error (Swift)

📝 Note: This library is written in swift. If you are having trouble building your app after installing this library, try adding an empty swift file to your project:

1. Open up your ios/project.xcworkspace project
2. On the project navigator panel (located on the right side of Xcode), right click on your project group (or another folder/group i.e the blue or yellow icons) and select the "New File..." option
3. In the popup sheet, select "Swift" as the template and then click the "Next" button
4. A "Save As" popup sheet should appear and then click "Create" (you can rename the file first if you want to)
5. If Xcode asks you to create a "Objective-C Bridging Header" choose "Create Objective-C Bridging Header"

Troubleshooting: Xcode Build Error (Undefined symbol)

When installing this library on Xcode 12+, you'll get the following error in Xcode:

Undefined symbol: (extension in UIKit):
__C.UIMenu.init(title: Swift.String, image: __C.UIImage?, identifier: __C.UIMenuIdentifier?, options: __C.UIMenuOptions, children: [__C.UIMenuElement]) -> __C.UIMenu

Undefined symbol: (extension in UIKit):
__C.UIAction.init(title: Swift.String, image: __C.UIImage?, identifier: __C.UIActionIdentifier?, discoverabilityTitle: Swift.String?, attributes: __C.UIMenuElementAttributes, state: __C.UIMenuElementState, handler: (__C.UIAction) -> ()) -> __C.UIAction

To fix this, see screenshot + follow the steps below:

1. Open your ios/project.xcworkspace project.
2. In the project navigator panel (located on the right side of Xcode), select your project group (i.e. the item with the blueprint icon).
3. The Xcode project editor should appear. In the left panel, under the "Project" section, select your project (if it isn't already selected).
4. In the project section's top tab bar, select the "Build Settings" tab (also make sure the "All" and "Combined" tabs are selected).
5. In the project navigator list, under the "Search Path" section, there should be a "Library Search Paths" setting (alternatively, you can search for "Library Search Paths" in the search bar).
6. According to this issue comment, you can clear all the items listed in the "Library Search Paths" setting by selecting the items in the list, and pressing the "-" button in the popover.
   • TLDR: Xcode automatically manages this setting, and the RN template hardcodes it to use Swift 5.0.
   • Alternatively, you can change the entry "$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/usr/lib/swift-5.0/$(PLATFORM_NAME)" to "$(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/usr/lib/swift-5.3/$(PLATFORM_NAME)" i.e. change swift-5.0 to swift-5.3, or whatever the newest version of swift that comes with your Xcode installation (to show the popup dialog, double click the value/item).
7. If you haven't already, make sure to create an empty swift file. Then clean the build folder (the option is in the menu bar under: "Product" -> "Clean Build Folder") and try building your project again.
8. If you are still having problems building the app, try the following and build your project again:

• Try clearing out Xcode's derivedData directory: rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/* (check out this gist for instructions on how to clean up Xcode)
• Try clearing out the Cocoapods cache: rm -rf "${HOME}/Library/Caches/CocoaPods" (and then try running pod install again).

Explanation: Some versions of the react-native template hard codes the swift library search paths to use swift 5.0 (which causes the linker to mismatch the swift system libraries bundled with your Xcode + iOS/Simulator installation).

Here are some related issues in the RN repo: Issue 30202 and Issue 29178.

C. Basic Usage

For more examples, check out the Usage And Examples section.

🔗 Full Example

import * as React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text } from 'react-native';

import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function BasicUsageExample01() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      style={styles.container}
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'BasicUsageExample01',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
        }],
      }}
    >
      <Text style={styles.text}>
        Press And Hold To Show Context Menu
      </Text>
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    margin: 10,
    padding: 10,
  },
  text: {
    fontSize: 16,
  },
});

D. Documentation

💡 Tip: Most of the time, when a type or component is mentioned, you can click it to jump to that item in the README (or its declaration in the source code).

D.1. Components

ContextMenuView Component

ContextMenuView Component: Props

Prop Name and Type	Description
⚛️ ViewProps	This component supports all the standard props from a <View/> component.
🔤 menuConfig ⚛️ MenuConfig	This prop configures the context menu, along with what menu actions to show. This prop accepts a MenuConfig object. This object is used to configure various aspects of the context menu. Here are some relevant properties: 1️⃣ MenuConfig.menuTitle: the context menu title (required) — if you don't want to show the menu title, pass in an empty string. 2️⃣ MenuConfig.menuItems: the actions to show (e.g. the title, icons, subtitle, etc) — accepts either an array of MenuActionConfig or MenuConfig objects. 3️⃣ MenuConfig.menuOptions: the attributes of the context menu (e.g. destructive) — accepts an array of UIMenuOptions string items, and any nested menus or submenus to show (see "Note A"). 📝 Note A: Passing a MenuConfig object inside of the MenuConfig.menuItems property will result in a nested context menu (i.e. a submenu). In this scenario, the MenuConfig.menuOptions and MenuConfig.icon can be used to configure the appearance of the submenu. For usage examples regarding nested menus, see Example 06. 📝 Note B: Passing a value of null (or undefined) to this prop will not disable the context menu. Instead, please use the isContextMenuEnabled prop to disable the context menu. 📝 Note C: You can put MenuConfig in state if you want to dynamically change the menu configuration (this will allow you to add/remove submenu items, or update the current menu options). If the context menu is currently visible, changing/updating the MenuConfig value passed to this prop will cause the context menu to change in real-time. This behavior is only supported on iOS 14+. 📌 Some example links to get you started: • For basic usage examples regarding MenuConfig, see: Example 1, • For examples on creating + configuring the menu action items (i.e MenuActionConfig), see: Example 2, • For menu action attributes + menu state, and action subtitles, see: Example 4, Example 8, and Example 13, • For examples regarding the usage of icons (i.e ImageItemConfig), see: Example 16, Example 17, and Example 18.
🔤 previewConfig ⚛️ MenuPreviewConfig	Configures the context menu's preview. If no configuration is provided then it will default to using the context menu component itself as the preview. 📝 Note: If you do not want to show a preview (i.e. only show the context menu itself), consider using a ContextMenuButton component instead. 📌 Some example links to get you started: • For examples regarding the configuration of the context menu preview (e.g. custom previews), see: Example 11, Example 12, Example 14, and Example 15.
🔤 shouldUseDiscoverability TitleAsFallbackValueForSubtitle ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	On iOS 15+, the value passed to the MenuActionConfig.discoverabilityTitle property is no longer displayed as a subtitle under the menu action. Instead you need to set a different property called MenuActionConfig.subtitle. The discoverabilityTitle property is now used for the "discoverability heads-up display" (e.g when an app supports keyboard shortcuts, holding down the command key presents a list of shortcuts; the discoverabilityTitle is then used as the title for the shortcut). If this prop is set to true, it will then use the value passed on to the discoverabilityTitle value as the subtitle for the menu action, preserving the old behavior. In other words, this prop exists for backwards-compatibility reasons. 📝 Note: This prop is set to true by default; set this to false if you don't want this automatic behaviour to happen.
🔤 shouldWaitForMenuToHide BeforeFiringOnPressMenuItem ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	If set to true (which it is by default), the onPressMenuItem event will be triggered after the context menu has been hidden (i.e. after onMenuDidHide event is triggered). Set this to false if you want onPressMenuItem to trigger as soon as an item has been pressed in the context menu. 📝 Note: Layout updates while the context menu is transitioning from it's open to hidden state might cause layout flickering (e.g. Issue #43).
🔤 isContextMenuEnabled ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	Enables or disables the context menu. Useful if you want to temporarily disable the context menu.
🔤 lazyPreview ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	If set to true (which it is by default), the custom context menu preview (i.e. the component returned from the ContextMenuView.renderPreview prop) and the auxiliary preview (i.e. the component returned from the ContextMenuView.renderAuxillaryPreview prop) are only mounted/rendered when the context menu is visible. Set this to false if you want the preview content to be always mounted.
🔤 renderPreview ⚛️ () => React.ReactElement	This prop is a "render" prop, i.e it accepts a function that returns a react component. The returned component will displayed in the context menu preview.
🔤 isAuxiliaryPreviewEnabled ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: false	⚠️ Experimental: Please see Auxiliary Preview section. TBA
🔤 auxiliaryPreviewConfig ⚛️ MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig	⚠️ Experimental: Please see Auxiliary Preview section. TBA
🔤 renderAuxillaryPreview ⚛️ () => React.ReactElement	⚠️ Experimental: Please see Auxiliary Preview section. TBA

ContextMenuView Component: Event Props

Prop Name and Type	Description
🔤 onMenuWillShow ⚛️ OnMenuWillShowEvent	Event that gets called before the context menu is shown, i.e this event is immediately invoked when the menu is about to become visible.
🔤 onMenuDidShow ⚛️ OnMenuDidShowEvent	Event that gets called after the context menu is shown, i.e this event is invoked after the menu entrance animation is finished.
🔤 onMenuWillHide ⚛️ OnMenuWillHideEvent	Event that gets called before the context menu is hidden, i.e this event is immediately invoked when the menu is about to become hidden.
🔤 onMenuDidHide ⚛️ OnMenuDidHideEvent	Event that gets called after the context menu is hidden, i.e this event is invoked after the menu exit animation is finished.
🔤 onMenuWillCancel ⚛️ OnMenuWillCancelEvent	Event that gets called when the menu is cancelled and about to be hidden, i.e this event is immediately invoked when the context menu interaction is cancelled.
🔤 onMenuDidCancel ⚛️ OnMenuDidCancelEvent	Event that gets called when the menu is cancelled and hidden, i.e. this event is invoked when the context menu is cancelled, and the menu exit transition is finished.
🔤 onPressMenuItem ⚛️ OnPressMenuItemEvent	Event that gets called when a menu action is pressed. You can identify which action was pressed via nativeEvent.actionKey property in the nativeEvent object. Check out Example 1, and Example 9 for examples regarding the onPressMenuItem event prop. 📝 Note: If shouldWaitForMenuToHide BeforeFiringOnPressMenuItem prop is set to true (which it is by default), then this event will fire after onMenuDidHide is triggered.
🔤 onPressMenuPreview ⚛️ OnPressMenuPreviewEvent	Event that gets called when the menu's preview is pressed.
🔤 onMenuAuxiliaryPreviewWillShow ⚛️ OnMenuAuxiliaryPreviewWillShowEvent	⚠️ Experimental: Please see Auxiliary Preview section. TBA
🔤 onMenuAuxiliaryPreviewDidShow ⚛️ OnMenuAuxiliaryPreviewDidShowEvent	⚠️ Experimental: Please see Auxiliary Preview section. TBA
🔤 onMenuAuxiliaryPreviewDidShow ⚛️ DeferredElementProvider i.e. (deferredID, completion) => void	This event gets called whenever a UIDeferredMenuElement needs to be loaded. A deferred menu element can be created via a DeferredMenuElementConfig object. A deferred menu is a context menu is basically a placeholder — i.e. it appears as a loading indicator in the context menu. When you pass in a DeferredMenuElementConfig object to MenuConfig.menuItems, it means you want to load and add additional menu items once the context menu is opened. This event will provide a completion callback — use this to provide the additional context menu items you want to load. 📝 Note A: Deferred menu elements only work on iOS 14+. 📝 Note B: You can dynamically update the context menu items without using the prop — the difference is that deferred menu items will show a placeholder loading indicator when the additional menu items haven't been loaded yet. 📝 Note C: It is possible to have multiple deferred menu elements (e.g. deferred elements can also provide deferred elements, and so on). Just be sure to use a unique deferredID so you can tell them apart. 📌 Example Usage: • ContextMenuViewExample19.

ContextMenuView Component: Properties/Methods

Prop Name and Type	Description
🔤 dismissMenu ⚛️ Promise<Void>	Allows you to programmatically dismiss the context menu. Only available on iOS 14 and above.
🔤 presentMenu ⚛️ Promise<Void>	Allows you to programmatically show the context menu.
🔤 showAuxiliaryPreviewAsPopover ⚛️ Promise<Void>	Allows you to programmatically show the auxiliary preview as a popover.

ContextMenuView Component: Experimental - Auxiliary Preview

The context menu auxiliary preview is an experimental feature, and is not officially part of UIKit's "Menu and Shortcuts" API.

This is just a feature that I've implemented myself and added to the library — as such official support is limited and might break in a future iOS version. Please use at your own risk.

ContextMenuButton Component

For basic usage, please see Example 1 section.

• The ContextMenuButton component is almost the same as the ContextMenuView component (It supports the same kind of props and events).
  

• The only difference between them is that the ContextMenuButton component does not have a preview, and it can be immediately shown when its tapped instead of having to do a long press. See Example 2 for more details.
  

• Note that ContextMenuButton is only available on iOS 14 and above. On iOS 13, it will use a ContextMenuButton,
  

• If you want to add additional touch events, you can wrap this component inside a button component (e.g. TouchableOpacity).
  

  • When wrapping this component inside a button, please make sure to set the useActionSheetFallback prop to false.

ContextMenuButton Component: Props

Prop Name and Type	Description
⚛️ ViewProps	This component supports all the standard props from a <View/> component.
🔤 menuConfig ⚛️ MenuConfig	Same as ContextMenuView.menuConfig prop.
🔤 isMenuPrimaryAction ⚛️ boolean	When set to true, the context menu will be shown when its tapped instead of a long press.
🔤 shouldUseDiscoverability TitleAsFallbackValueForSubtitle ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	TBA / Not Implented
🔤 enableContextMenu ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	Same as ContextMenuView.enableContextMenu prop.
🔤 useActionSheetFallback ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	Same as ContextMenuView.useActionSheetFallback prop.

ContextMenuButton Component: Event Props

Prop Name and Type	Description
🔤 onMenuWillShow ⚛️ OnMenuWillShowEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuWillShow event.
🔤 onMenuDidShow ⚛️ OnMenuDidShowEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuDidShow event.
🔤 onMenuWillHide ⚛️ OnMenuWillHideEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuWillHide event.
🔤 onMenuDidHide ⚛️ OnMenuDidHideEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuDidHide event.
🔤 onMenuWillCancel ⚛️ OnMenuWillCancelEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuWillCancel event.
🔤 onMenuDidCancel ⚛️ OnMenuDidCancelEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuDidCancel event.
🔤 onMenuWillCreate ⚛️ OnMenuWillCreateEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onMenuWillCreate event.
🔤 onPressMenuItem ⚛️ OnPressMenuItemEvent	Same as ContextMenuView.onPressMenuItem event.

ContextMenuButton Component: Properties/Methods

Prop Name and Type	Description
🔤 dismissMenu ⚛️ Promise<Void>	Same as ContextMenuView.dismissMenu method.

D.2. Context

ContextMenuViewContext Context

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Property	Description
🔤 isMenuVisible ⚛️ boolean	TBA
🔤 getRefToContextMenuView ⚛️ () => ContextMenuView 📌 ContextMenuView	TBA

ContextMenuButtonContext Context

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Property	Description
🔤 isMenuVisible ⚛️ boolean	TBA
🔤 getRefToContextMenuButton ⚛️ () => ContextMenuView 📌 ContextMenuButton	TBA

D.3. Hooks

useMenuContext Hook

A hook to use the ContextMenuViewContext context.

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useMenuButtonContext Hook

A hook to use the ContextMenuButtonContext context.

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D.4. Objects and Types

MenuConfig.ts

• 📌 Declaration: MenuConfig.ts

Object Type: MenuConfig

A container for grouping related menu elements in an app menu or contextual menu.

An object that is used to create and configure a context menu. Internally, this object is used to create a UIMenu instance (see apple docs for more information).

Name and Type	Description
🔤 type ⚛️ string, i.e"menu"	TBA
🔤 menuTitle ⚛️ string	TBA 📝 Note: If you don't want a menu title to appear for your context menu, just pass in an empty string to this property.
🔤 menuSubtitle ⚛️ string	TBA 📝 Note: Requires iOS 15+.
🔤 menuOptions ⚛️ Array<UIMenuOptions> 📌 UIMenuOptions	TBA
🔤 menuPreferredElementSize ⚛️ MenuElementSize	TBA
🔤 menuItems ⚛️ MenuElementConfig[] i.e. MenuConfig ¦ MenuActionConfig ¦ DeferredMenuElementConfig 📌 MenuConfig 📌 MenuActionConfig 📌 DeferredMenuElementConfig	TBA
🔤 icon ⚛️ IconConfig ¦ ImageItemConfig 📌 IconConfig (deprecated) 📌 ImageItemConfig	TBA

Object Type: MenuActionConfig

An object that is used to create a menu action item in the context menu. Internally, this object is used to create a UIAction instance (see apple docs for more information),

Name and Type	Description
🔤 type ⚛️ string, i.e "action"	TBA
🔤 Required: actionKey ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 Required: actionTitle ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 actionSubtitle ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 menuState ⚛️ MenuState	TBA
🔤 menuAttributes ⚛️ Array<MenuAttributes> 📌 MenuAtrributes	TBA
🔤 discoverabilityTitle ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 icon ⚛️ IconConfig ¦ ImageItemConfig 📌 IconConfig (deprecated) 📌 ImageItemConfig	TBA

Object Type: DeferredMenuElementConfig

An object that is used to create a deferred menu element. Internally, this object is used to create a UIDeferredMenuElement instance (see apple docs for more information),

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e. deferred.	TBA
🔤 Required: deferredID ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤: shouldCache ⚛️ boolean	TBA

String Union: MenuAttributes

Attributes that determine the style of the menu element.

A union string type that maps to UIMenuElement.Attributes enum (see apple docs for more information).

Type	Description
⚛️ hidden	TBA
⚛️ disabled	TBA
⚛️ destructive	TBA
⚛️ keepsMenuPresented	TBA

String Union: MenuState

Constants that indicate the state of an action- or command-based menu element.

A union string type that maps to UIMenuElement.State enum (see apple docs for more information).

Type	Description
⚛️ on	TBA
⚛️ off	TBA
⚛️ mixed	TBA

String Union: UIMenuOptions

Options for configuring a menu's appearance.

A union string type that maps to UIMenu.Options option set (see apple docs for more information).

Type	Description
⚛️ destructive	TBA
⚛️ displayInline	TBA

String Union: MenuElementSize

Constants that determine the size of an element in a menu.

A union string type that maps to UIMenu.ElementSize enum (see apple docs for more information).

Type	Description
⚛️ small	TBA
⚛️ medium	TBA
⚛️ large	TBA

MenuPreviewConfig.ts

• 📌 Declaration: MenuPreviewConfig.ts

Object Type: MenuPreviewConfig

Name and Type	Description
🔤 previewType ⚛️ MenuPreviewType ✳️ Default: DEFAULT	TBA
🔤 previewSize ⚛️ MenuPreviewSize ✳️ Default: INHERIT	TBA
🔤 isResizeAnimated ⚛️ boolean ✳️ Default: true	TBA
🔤 borderRadius ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 backgroundColor ⚛️ DynamicColor ¦ string 📌 DynamicColor	TBA
🔤 previewSize ⚛️ ContextMenuInteractionCommitStyle ✳️ Default: dismiss	TBA
🔤 targetViewNode ⚛️ number	TBA

String Union: ContextMenuInteractionCommitStyle

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ dismiss	TBA
⚛️ pop	TBA

String Union: MenuPreviewSize

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ INHERIT	TBA
⚛️ STRETCH	TBA

String Union: MenuPreviewType

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ DEFAULT	TBA
⚛️ CUSTOM	TBA

MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig.ts

• 📌 Declaration: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig.ts

Object Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewConfig

Name and Type	Description
🔤 height ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 anchorPosition ⚛️ MenuAuxiliaryPreviewAnchorPosition ✳️ Default: automatic	TBA
🔤 alignmentHorizontal ⚛️ MenuAuxiliaryPreviewHorizontalAlignment ✳️ Default: stretchPreview	TBA
🔤 marginPreview ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 marginAuxiliaryPreview ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 transitionConfigEntrance ⚛️ MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionConfig	TBA
🔤 transitionEntranceDelay ⚛️ MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionEntranceDelay	TBA

String Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewAnchorPosition

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ top	TBA
⚛️ bottom	TBA
⚛️ automatic	TBA

String Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewHorizontalAlignment

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ stretchScreen	TBA
⚛️ stretchPreview	TBA
⚛️ previewLeading	TBA
⚛️ previewTrailing	TBA
⚛️ previewCenter	TBA

String Union Type: UIViewAnimateOptions

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ curveEaseIn	TBA
⚛️ curveEaseOut	TBA
⚛️ curveEaseInOut	TBA
⚛️ curveLinear	TBA

Object Type: UIViewAnimateConfig

Name and Type	Description
🔤 duration ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 delay ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 options ⚛️ UIViewAnimateOptions[]	TBA

Object Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewBaseTransitionConfig

This type is an object tagged union type, with the transition property being the tag that separates the unions.

The table below defines the possible valid values that can be assigned to the type property (the subsequent tables are the different possible unions).

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. 'none' ¦ 'fade' 'slide' ¦ 'zoom' ¦ 'zoomAndSlide'	TBA

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. none	TBA

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. fade	TBA

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. slide	TBA
🔤 slideOffset ⚛️ number	TBA

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. zoom	TBA
🔤 zoomOffset ⚛️ number	TBA

Name and Type	Description
🔤 transition ⚛️ string i.e. zoomAndSlide	TBA
🔤 slideOffset ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 zoomOffset ⚛️ number	TBA

Object Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionConfig

This type is a union between the UIViewAnimateConfig object type, and the MenuAuxiliaryPreviewBaseTransitionConfig object type.

export type MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionConfig = 
  | UIViewAnimateConfig
  | MenuAuxiliaryPreviewBaseTransitionConfig;

Mixed Union Type: MenuAuxiliaryPreviewTransitionEntranceDelay.

Name and Type	Description
⚛️ number	TBA
⚛️ RECOMMENDED	TBA
⚛️ AFTER_PREVIEW	TBA

MenuIconConfig.ts

• 📌 Declaration: MenuIconConfig.ts

Object Type: IconConfig

This has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Use ImageItemConfig instead. For documentation regarding IconConfig, please see the documentation in the old README.

ImageItemConfig.ts

• 📌 Declaration: ImageItemConfig.ts

Object Type: ImageItemConfig

This type is an object tagged union type, with the type property being the tag that separates the unions. The table below defines the possible valid values that can be assigned to the type property.

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ ImageItemConfigType string union, i.e. 'IMAGE_ASSET' ¦ 'IMAGE_SYSTEM' ¦ 'IMAGE_REQUIRE' ¦ 'IMAGE_EMPTY' ¦ 'IMAGE_RECT' ¦ 'IMAGE_GRADIENT' ¦ 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL'	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_ASSET

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_ASSET'	TBA 📌 Maps to UIImage.init(named:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 Required: imageValue ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 imageOptions? ⚛️ ImageOptions	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_SYSTEM

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_SYSTEM'	TBA 📌 Maps to UIImage.init(systemName:withConfiguration:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 Required: imageValue ⚛️ ImageSystemConfig	TBA 📌 Maps to the withConfiguration argument label in the UIImage.init(systemName:withConfiguration:) constructor in the apple docs.
imageOptions ⚛️ ImageOptions	TBA
🔤 imageLoadingConfig ⚛️ ImageLoadingConfig	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_EMPTY

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_EMPTY'	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_RECT

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_RECT'	TBA 📝 Note: Programmatically creates an image using UIGraphicsImageRenderer.
🔤 Required: imageValue ⚛️ ImageRectConfig	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_GRADIENT

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_GRADIENT'	TBA 📝 Note: Programmatically creates an image using UIGraphicsImageRenderer.
🔤 imageValue ⚛️ ImageGradientConfig	TBA
imageOptions ⚛️ ImageOptions	TBA

ImageItemConfig: IMAGE_REMOTE_URL

Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: type ⚛️ string i.e 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL'	TBA
🔤 imageValue ⚛️ ImageRemoteUrlConfig	TBA
🔤 imageLoadingConfig ⚛️ ImageLoadingConfig	TBA
imageOptions ⚛️ ImageOptions	TBA

Object Type: ImageResolvedAssetSource

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 height ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 width ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 scale ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 uri ⚛️ string	TBA

Object Type: ImageRectConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: width ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 Required: height ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 Required: fillColor ⚛️ string	TBA
🔤 borderRadius? ⚛️ number	TBA

Object Type: ImageGradientConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: width ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 Required: height ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 borderRadius? ⚛️ number	TBA
🔤 Required: colors ⚛️ Array<string>	TBA 📌 Maps to CAGradientLayer.colors property in the apple docs.
🔤 locations? ⚛️ Array<number>	TBA 📌 Maps to CAGradientLayer.locations property in the apple docs.
🔤 startPoint? ⚛️ Point ¦ PointPreset 📌 Point 📌 PointPreset	TBA 📌 Maps to CAGradientLayer.startPoint property in the apple docs.
🔤 endPoint? ⚛️ Point ¦ PointPreset 📌 Point 📌 PointPreset	TBA 📌 Maps to CAGradientLayer.endPoint property in the apple docs.
🔤 type? ⚛️ string i.e 'axial' ¦ 'conic' ¦ 'radial'	TBA 📌 Maps to CAGradientLayer.type property in the apple docs.

Object Type: ImageSystemConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: systemName ⚛️ string	TBA 📌 Maps to the systemName argument label in the UIImage.init(systemName:withConfiguration:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 pointSize? ⚛️ number	TBA 📌 Maps to UIImage.SymbolConfiguration.init(pointSize:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 weight? ⚛️ ImageSymbolWeight	TBA 📌 Maps to UIImage.SymbolConfiguration.init(weight:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 scale? ⚛️ ImageSymbolScale	TBA 📌 Maps to UIImage.SymbolConfiguration.init(scale:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 hierarchicalColor? ⚛️ Array<string>	TBA 📝 Note A: Cannot be used at the same time with paletteColors (it's either one or the other). 📝 Note B: Requires iOS 15+. 📌 Maps to UIImage.SymbolConfiguration.init(hierarchicalColor:) constructor in the apple docs.
🔤 paletteColors? ⚛️ string	TBA 📝 Note A: Cannot be used at the same time with hierarchicalColor (it's either one or the other). 📝 Note B: Requires iOS 15+. 📌 Maps to UIImage.SymbolConfiguration.init(paletteColors:) constructor in the apple docs.

Object Type: UIImageConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 tint ⚛️ string ¦ DynamicColor	TBA
🔤 renderingMode ⚛️ ImageRenderingModes	TBA

Object Union Type: ImageOptions

This type is a unioned with UIImageConfig object type, so it inherits its properties.

Name and Type	Description
🔤 cornerRadius ⚛️ number	TBA

Object Type: ImageRemoteUrlConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 Required: url ⚛️ string	TBA

Object Type: ImageLoadingConfig

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Name and Type	Description
🔤 shouldCache ⚛️ boolean	TBA
🔤 shouldLazyLoad ⚛️ boolean	TBA

Undocumented Types

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Type	Description
📌 Declaration: MenuEvents	This file contains all the menu-related events and event objects.
📌 Declaration: MiscTypes.ts	This file contains a bunch of types that haven't been categorized yet. Contains: PointPreset, Point, DynamicColor, etc.
📌 Declaration: RNICleanupMode.ts	TBA

D.5. Constants

Object: LIB_ENV

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Type	Description
🔤 isContextMenuButtonSupported ⚛️ boolean	TBA
🔤 isContextMenuViewSupported ⚛️ boolean	TBA

E. Usage And Examples

ContextMenuView Example 01

Summary: A basic context menu that has 3 menu action items (e.g. "Action #1", "Action #2", and "Action #3").

Notes
1️⃣ — The ContextMenuView.menuConfig prop accepts an optional MenuConfig object. This object will be used to create and configure the context menu.
2️⃣ — You can set the context menu title via passing a string value to the MenuConfig.menuTitle property. 📝 Note: You can pass an empty string if you don't want a title to appear on top your context menu.
3️⃣ — To populate the context menu with action items, you can pass a MenuActionConfig object in the MenuConfig.menuItems property. 📝 Note A: The MenuConfig.menuItems property can accept an array of a MenuElementConfig union type. To be more specific, the menuItems property can accept an array containing any of the following object types: MenuConfig object, MenuActionConfig, and DeferredMenuElementConfig. 📝 Note B: If you pass in a MenuConfig object in the MenuConfig.menuItems property, it means that you want to create a submenu. See ContextMenuView Example 03 for more details. 📝 Note C: If you pass in a DeferredMenuElementConfig object in the MenuConfig.menuItems property, it means that you want to create a deferred menu item (i.e. a menu item that has a loading indicator). See ContextMenuView Example 19 for more details.
4️⃣ — A MenuActionConfig object represents an action item in the context menu (e.g. copy, paste, delete, etc). As such, if you pass in a MenuActionConfig object to MenuConfig.menuItems, it means that you want to create a context menu action. 📝 Note A: The MenuActionConfig.actionKey property serves as a unique identifier for your menu action. If you have multiple menu actions, the actionKey will help you differentiate them. 📝 Note B: You will receive the value you passed in MenuActionConfig.actionKey in the ContextMenuView.onPressMenuItem event (i.e. via the nativeEvent object).
5️⃣ — You can use the ContextMenuView.onPressMenuItem event prop to get notified whenever a menu action item has been selected. The function you pass to the onPressMenuItem prop will receive a OnPressMenuItemEventObject object. 📝 Note A: Details about the selected menu action item can be accessed via the OnPressMenuItemEventObject.nativeEvent object. E.g. OnPressMenuItemEventObject``.nativeEvent.actionKey. 📝 Note B: If ContextMenuView.shouldWaitForMenuToHide BeforeFiringOnPressMenuItem prop is set to true (which it is by default), then this event will fire after the onMenuDidHide event is triggered.

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample01(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // Note: If you don't want a menu title to appear for your
        // context menu, you can just pass in an empty string
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample01',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
        }],
      }}
      onPressMenuItem={({nativeEvent}) => {
        Alert.alert(
          'onPressMenuItem Event',
          `actionKey: ${nativeEvent.actionKey} - actionTitle: ${nativeEvent.actionTitle}`
        );
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 02

Summary: Icon Example — This examples shows how to add a system icon in the context menu action.

Notes
1️⃣ — A menu action (i.e. MenuActionConfig object) can be configured to show an icon via its MenuActionConfig.icon property. 📝 Note A: The icon property accepts a ImageItemConfig object. 📝 Note B: A ImageItemConfig object is used to describe images/assets (e.g. SF Symbols icons, images, xcasset images, programmatic images, etc).
2️⃣ — In this example, we want to use a "SF Symbols" icon for the menu action. In order to do this, the ImageItemConfig.type property must be set to "IMAGE_SYSTEM". 📝 Note A: Passing in a value of "IMAGE_SYSTEM" to the type property means that we want to create a "SF Symbols" system icon. 📝 Note B: Using a "SF Symbols" icon requires iOS 13+. 📝 Note C: Via the ImageItemConfig object, you can also configure the context menu action to use other icons (e.g. xcasset items, images, gradients, solid colors, etc). 📝 Note D: You can apply a tint to the icon via the ImageItemConfig.imageOptions property using the UIImageConfig.tint and UIImageConfig.renderingMode property. See ContextMenuView Example 17 for more details.
3️⃣ — In order to configure what kind of "SF Symbols" icon we want to use for the menu action, we need to pass in a ImageSystemConfig object to the ImageItemConfig.imageValue property. We can set what kind of icon to use via passing a string value to the ImageSystemConfig.systemName property. 📝 Note A: An ImageSystemConfig object is used to generate a "SF Symbols" image. Using this configuration object, we can optionally customize the "SF Symbols" icon further via the following properties: pointSize, weight, scale, hierarchicalColor, paletteColors, etc. 📝 Note B: The string value passed to the ImageSystemConfig.systemName property must be a valid SF Symbols name. 📝 Note C: To view the list of SF Symbols icons (along with their corresponding icon names), you'll need to download the SF Symbols Mac app from this page.

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample02(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample02',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'folder',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'dial.fill',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'archivebox.fill',
            },
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 03

Summary: Nested Menu — This example shows a context menu that has a submenu item inside its list of menu actions.

Notes
1️⃣ — A context menu supports having nested menu's (i.e. submenu's). A submenu is basically just another menu with it's own separate list of menu actions. Tapping it will show another context menu (visually this is similar to a dropdown menu).
2️⃣ — As mentioned in the earlier examples, the MenuConfig.menuItems property can accept a MenuActionConfig object, or a MenuConfig object. Passing in a MenuActionConfig object to MenuConfig.menuItems makes a menu action, conversely passing in a MenuConfig object will create a submenu item. In other words, to make a submenu, you just need to pass a MenuConfig item in the MenuConfig.menuItems property. 📝 Note: You can nest as many submenu's you want (but just remember that having more than 3 nested submenus is considered bad UX).

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample03(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample03',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'folder',
            },
          }
        }, {
          menuTitle: 'Submenu...',
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey  : 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #1',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'star',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #2',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'star.lefthalf.fill',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #3',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'star.fill',
              },
            }
          }]
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 04

Summary: Menu Attributes — This example context menu showcases the MenuActionConfig.menuAttributes property.

Notes
1️⃣ — The MenuActionConfig.menuAttributes property accepts an array of strings (i.e. an array of MenuAttributes items). In this example, the context menu has 3 actions, each with a different menu attribute assigned to it. The first menu action is a "disabled" action, i.e. it has it's menuAttributes set to ['disabled'], causing the action title text and icon becomes greyed out.
2️⃣ — The second menu action is a destructive action. It has it's menuAttributes set to ['destructive'], causing the action title text and icon becomes red.
3️⃣ — The third menu action is a "hidden" action. It has it's menuAttributes set to ['hidden']. The menu action is not visible in the menu's list of actions. This is useful for temporarily hiding a menu action item.
4️⃣ — The fourth menu action is a "disabled" + "destructive" action. Visually, it looks very similar to an action that has the ['disabled'] attribute.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample04(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample04',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey     : 'key-01',
          actionTitle   : 'Disabled Action',
          menuAttributes: ['disabled'],
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'folder',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey     : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle   : 'Destructive Action',
          menuAttributes: ['destructive'],
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'trash',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey     : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle   : 'Hidden Action',
          menuAttributes: ['hidden'],
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'trash',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey     : 'key-04'   ,
          actionTitle   : 'Disabled/Destructive',
          menuAttributes: ['disabled', 'destructive'],
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'trash.fill',
            },
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 05

Summary: Nested Menu + Menu Attributes — A context menu that has a in-line submenu.

Notes
You can set the menu options via the MenuConfig.menuOptions property. It accepts an array of UIMenuOptions strings (e.g. 'destructive', 'displayInline'). If you pass in ['displayInline'] to menuOptions, the submenu will be added/combined to its parent menu, but with a small separator between them.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample05(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample03',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // ...
        }, {
          menuTitle: 'Submenu...',
          // Create an "Inline submenu" by adding `displayInline`
          // in the menu options...
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey  : 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #1',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #2',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #3',
            // ...
          }]
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 06

Summary: Menu Options — A context menu that has a destructive submenu.

Notes
You can set the menu options via the MenuConfig.menuOptions property. It accepts an array of UIMenuOptions strings (e.g. destructive, displayInline). If you pass in ['destructive'] to menuOptions, it will tint the submenu to red (but it's menu items won't be affected).

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample06(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample06',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // ...
        }, {
          menuTitle: 'Submenu...',
          // Create an "destructive" submenu by adding
          // `destructive` in the menu options...
          menuOptions: ['destructive'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey  : 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #1',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #2',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #3',
            // ...
          }]
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 07

Summary: Menu Options — A context menu that set to be both "destructive" and "display in-line".

Notes
You can set the menu options via the MenuConfig.menuOptions property. It accepts an array of UIMenuOptions strings (e.g. destructive, displayInline). Passing in ['destructive', 'displayInline'] to menuOptions, is functionally the same as passing in ['displayInline'].

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample07(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample07',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // ...
        }, {
          menuTitle: 'Submenu...',
          // Make the submenu both `'displayInline'` and
          // `'destructive'`.
          //
          // Visually, this is just the same as passing in 
          // 'displayInline'.
          menuOptions: ['displayInline', 'destructive'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey  : 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #1',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #2',
            // ...
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: 'Submenu Action #3',
            // ...
          }]
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 08

Summary: Menu State — A context menu with 3 actions that has 'on', 'off', and 'mixed' menuState.

Notes
You can set an menu action item's the menu state via the MenuActionConfig.menuState property. 📝 Note: On iOS 13, an action item's menu state is indicated via changing it's icon to a checkmark. However on later version of iOS this behavior has been changed to showing a checkmark besides the action title (see gifs/screenshots below).

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample08(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample08',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'menuState: on',
          // show a checkmark
          menuState: 'on',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'menuState: off',
          // no checkmark
          menuState: 'off',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'menuState: mixed',
          // visually this is the same as 'on'
          menuState: 'mixed',
          // ...
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 09

Summary: Events — An example for the onPressMenuItem event prop.

Notes

The onPressMenuItem event prop allows you to know which menu item was pressed via the nativeEvent.actionKey property in the event object. 📝 Note A: The entire menu action config (i.e. MenuActionConfig) object of the selected item can be accessed via the nativeEvent object (e.g. nativeEvent.actionTitle, nativeEvent.menuState, etc). 📝 Note B: For the full type declaration for all the events, see: MenuEvents.ts.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample09(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample09',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'save',
          actionTitle: 'Save',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'like',
          actionTitle: 'Like',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'play',
          actionTitle: 'Play',
          // ...
        }],
      }}
      // Use `actionKey` to identify which menu action was
      // pressed....
      onPressMenuItem={({nativeEvent}) => {
        switch (nativeEvent.actionKey) {
          case 'save':
            Alert.alert('saving...');
            break;

          case 'like':
            Alert.alert('liking...');
            break;

          case 'play':
            Alert.alert('playing...');
            break;
        };
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 10

Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing how to dynamically update the context menu while it's visible. In this example, the menu action changes every time the counter increments every second.

Notes

On iOS 14+ you can update the menu while it's visible, e.g. like adding and removing items in the context menu, or changing the action title, etc. You can control the context menu config using state, and dynamically change it as shown in the example below. 📝 Note A: On iOS 13 the context menu will not update while it's visible. 📝 Note B: On iOS 15+, all changes to the context menu config are applied using a fade/crossfade transition.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample10(props) {
  // `timer` will increment every second... 
  const [timer, setTimer] = React.useState(0);

  // ...
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      // ...
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample10',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-00',
          actionTitle: `Static Action`,
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          // update the action title every second...
          actionTitle: `timer: ${timer}`,
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
               // update the icon every second...
              systemName: ((timer % 2 === 0)
                ? 'heart'
                : 'heart.fill'
              ),
            },
          }
        }, 
        // this item will be added and removed...
        (timer % 3 === 0) && {
          actionKey  : 'key-02',
          actionTitle: `Dynamic Action`,
          // ...
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 11

Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing how to use a custom preview for the context menu.

Notes
1️⃣ — The ContextMenuView.renderPreview render prop allows you show a custom preview when the context menu appears. 📝 Note: The renderPreview prop accepts a function that returns an element. The returned element will be shown inside the context menu preview.
2️⃣ — The ContextMenuView.previewConfig is used to control the behavior and appearance of the custom context menu preview. In order to show the custom context menu preview, we must first set MenuPreviewConfig.previewType to 'CUSTOM'. By default, this property is set to 'DEFAULT', which means that you do not want to use a custom preview. 📝 Note A: The previewConfig prop accepts a MenuPreviewConfig object. 📝 Note B: The previewType property accepts a MenuPreviewType string. You can set this to 'DEFAULT' if you want to quickly disable the custom preview.
3️⃣ — In this example, we want the custom preview to be as big as possible, so we set the MenuPreviewConfig.previewSize property to 'STRETCH'. 📝 Note: The previewSize property accepts a MenuPreviewSize string. By default, this prop is set to 'INHERIT', which means to just match the size of the root view returned from renderPreview.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample11(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      previewConfig={{
        previewType: 'CUSTOM',
        previewSize: 'STRETCH',
        backgroundColor: 'white'
      }}
      renderPreview={() => (
        <View>
          <Text>
            Hello World
          </Text>
          <Text>
            Hello World
          </Text>
          <Text>
            Hello World
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
      onPressMenuPreview={() => {
        Alert.alert(
          'onPressMenuPreview Event',
          `Menu preview was pressed...`
        );
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 12

Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing a custom context menu preview that dynamically changes its size due to its contents updating every second.

Notes
📝 Note: By default, custom preview will animate to its new size. If you want to disable this behavior, set MenuPreviewConfig.isResizeAnimated property to false.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...

export function ContextMenuViewExample12(props) {
  // increments every second...
  const [timer, setTimer] = React.useState(0);

	// ...
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample12',
        menuItems: [{
          // ...
        }],
      }}
      previewConfig={{
        previewType: 'CUSTOM',
        backgroundColor: 'white'
      }}
      // The context menu preview grows and shrinks due to the labels/
      // text changing every second...
      renderPreview={() => (
        <View>
          <Text>
            {`Counter: ${timer}`}
          </Text>
          <Text>
            {(timer % 2 === 0)? 'EVEN' : 'The number is: ODD'}
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
      // ...
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 13

Summary: Menu Action — An example showing how to add a subtitle to menu action.

Notes

You can add a subtitle to a menu action via passing a string value to the MenuActionConfig.actionSubtitle property. 📝 Note A: On iOS 13/14, you add subtitles to the menu action via the MenuActionConfig.discoverabilityTitle property, but on iOS 15+ this property is now used for the "discoverability heads-up display" UI. 📝 Note B: For backwards compatibility, the string value you passed to discoverabilityTitle will also be used to set actionSubtitle on iOS 15+. To disable this automatic behavior, set the ContextMenuView.shouldUseDiscoverability TitleAsFallbackValueForSubtitle prop to false.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample13(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample13',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey: 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // old way of adding a subtitle...
          // iOS 13 to 14 (still works on iOS 15+)
          discoverabilityTitle: 'Action subtitle',
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          // new way of adding a subtitle...
          // iOS 15+ only, but is automatically backwards compatible w/
          // iOS 13/14...
          actionSubtitle: 'Lorum ipsum sit amit dolor aspicing',
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          actionSubtitle: 'Very long `discoverabilityTitle` lorum ipsum sit amit',
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 14

Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example that changes the exit transition of the context menu preview when its tapped using the preferredCommitStyle  config.

Notes
The MenuPreviewConfig.preferredCommitStyle allows you to configure what preset exit transition to use when the context menu preview is pressed. 📝 Note A: By default, MenuPreviewConfig.preferredCommitStyle is set to 'dismiss'. 📝 Note B: A preferredCommitStyle of 'pop'' is usually used when navigating to another screen (i.e. a view controller is pushed without the normal push transition).

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample14(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      previewConfig={{
        previewType: 'CUSTOM',
        previewSize: 'STRETCH',
        backgroundColor: 'rgba(255,255,255,0.75)',
	      // change the exit transition that occurs when the 
        // context menu preview is pressed.
        preferredCommitStyle: 'pop',
      }}
      renderPreview={() => (
        {/** ... */}
      )}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 15

Summary: Context Menu Previews — An example showing how to configure a context menu that uses targeted previews.

Notes

By default, the child elements you render inside the ContextMenuView component will be used as the preview when the context menu interaction is triggered. Targeted previews allows you to specify which specific view to use for the context menu preview, so that when the context menu interaction begins, a different view will be used for the preview (including the initial transition, see the gif below the example code). 📝 Note A: The context menu interaction will still be triggered by long pressing on the child elements in the ContextMenuView component. As such, if the view that you are using for the targeted preview is not a child of ContextMenuView, then holding down on that view will not trigger the context menu interaction. 📝 Note B: Targeted previews is different from setting a custom context menu preview via the renderPreview prop. A custom preview will replace the contents of the context menu preview entirely with your custom view component once the menu is opened. A targeted preview on the other hand will change which view to use for the context menu entrance/exit transition (as well as what view to show in the preview if you do not have a custom preview).

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample15(props) {
  const [targetViewNode, setTargetViewNode] = React.useState();
  
  React.useEffect(() => {
    // please note that when a view unmounts and remounts (e.g.
    // when you have a view inside a list comp)., you need to
    // get the new associated `reactTag` for that view
    //
    // otherwise the `reactTag` value you provide to the 
    // `previewConfig` will be stale...
    //
    // this is why we have to set `targetViewNode` back to 
    // `udefined` when the component unmounts
    return () => {
      setTargetViewNode(undefined);
    }
  }, []);

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      previewConfig={{
        // specify which view to use as the preview target
        targetViewNode: targetViewNode,
      }}
    >
      <View
        style={styles.targetContainer}
        // we need to get the `reactTag` of the view; one way is
        // to get it from the `onLayout` event
        //
        // alternatively, you can also obtain the `reactTag` of a  
        // a view via: `nativeViewRef?.nativeTag`
        //
        // the `reactTag` for a given view is the same across re-renders,
        // so we only really need to get it once when the view mounts...
        //
        onLayout={!targetViewNode && (({nativeEvent}) => {
          setTargetViewNode(nativeEvent.target)
        })}
      >
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          {`Hello! Target Node: ${targetViewNode}`}
        </Text>
      </View>
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 15-02

Summary: Context Menu Previews (Cont). — An example showing how to configure a context menu that uses targeted previews + WrapperView.

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';
import { WrapperView } from 'react-native-ios-utilities';

export function ContextMenuViewExample15_02(props) {
  // save a ref. to the `WrapperView` element containing the preview target you 
  // want to use for the context menu.
  //
  // you can then call `getNativeReactTag` to get the associated `reactTag`
  // for that view. 
  const wrapperViewRef = React.useRef();

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      previewConfig={{
        // get the associated `reactTag` of the view element you want use as the 
        // preview target
        targetViewNode: wrapperViewRef.current?.getNativeReactTag(),
      }}
    >
      <WrapperView
        ref={wrapperViewRef}
        style={styles.targetContainer}
      >
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          {`Hello inside: WrapperView\nTarget Node: ${wrapperViewRef.current?.getNativeReactTag()}`}
        </Text>
      </WrapperView>
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 16

Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with an action that uses a 'IMAGE_ASSET' image for its icon.

Notes
A config of ImageItemConfig.type set to 'IMAGE_ASSET' means that you want to use a xcasset image asset. 📝 Note: The string value you pass to the ImageItemConfig.imageValue must match the corresponding asset that you want to use in your project's xcasset catalog.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample16(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample16',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey: 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          discoverabilityTitle: 'Use "ASSET" icon',
          icon: {
            // specify that you want to use an asset icon
            type: 'IMAGE_ASSET',
            // pass the name of the asset
            imageValue: 'icon-rainbow-flag',
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 17

Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with action items that have different colored icons.

Notes

A ImageItemConfig object has an optional called imageOptions. This property accepts a UIImageConfig object. You can tint the image to a specified color using the UIImageConfig.tint property. This property accepts a color string in either rgb, rgba, or hex format. You can also choose to provide a dynamic color config if you want to use a specific color for light/dark mode. 📝 Note A: Any image can be tinted to a specific color, not just 'IMAGE_SYSTEM' images. 📝 Note B: In order for the tint to take effect, set UIImageConfig.renderingMode to alwaysOriginal.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuViewExample17(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample17',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'cloud.heavyrain.fill',
            },
            // blue icon
            imageOptions: {
              tint: 'blue',
              renderingMode: 'alwaysOriginal',
            },
          },
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02',
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          icon: {
            // ...
            // orange icon
            imageOptions: {
              tint: 'rgb(218,165,32)',
              renderingMode: 'alwaysOriginal',
            },
          },
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03',
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          icon: {
            // ...
            // pink icon
            imageOptions: {
              tint: '#FF1493',
              renderingMode: 'alwaysOriginal',
            },
          },
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-04',
          actionTitle: 'Action #4',
          icon: {
            // ...
            // green icon
            imageOptions: {
              tint: 'rgba(124,252,0,0.5)',
              renderingMode: 'alwaysOriginal',
            },
          },
        }]
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 18

Summary: Icon Example — An example showing a context menu with action items that has icons that uses local image assets imported via require(...).

Notes
1️⃣ — The first step that we need to do is to generate a ImageResolvedAssetSource object of the local image asset we want to use. This object contains metadata about the image as well as its URI in the file system. The Image.resolveAssetSource function returns a ImageResolvedAssetSource that corresponds to the source argument you pass into it. Give this function the return value of require(path/to/image.png).
2️⃣ — A config of ImageItemConfig.type set to 'IMAGE_REQUIRE' means that we want to use a local image asset imported via the require(...) function. The ImageItemConfig.imageValue property accepts a ImageResolvedAssetSource object that corresponds to the image asset that you want to use.

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuView } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

// Generate a `ImageResolvedAssetSource` object based on the
// image assets...

const iconA = Image.resolveAssetSource(
  require('../assets/emoji-pleading-face.png')
);

const iconB = Image.resolveAssetSource(
  require('../assets/emoji-smiling-face-with-hearts.png')
);

const iconC = Image.resolveAssetSource(
  require('../assets/emoji-sparkling-heart.png')
);

export function ContextMenuViewExample18(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample18',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          discoverabilityTitle: 'Use "REQUIRE" icon',
          // `IconConfig` has been deprecated, please use 
          // `ImageItemConfig` instead (but it'll still work 
          // for now).
          // 
          // The other two menu actions in this example 
          // uses `ImageItemConfig` to set the menu action icons. 
          icon: {
            iconType: 'REQUIRE',
            iconValue: iconA,
          }
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          
          // Set config to use images via `require`
          type: 'IMAGE_REQUIRE',
          
          // Pass in the corresponding
          // `ImageResolvedAssetSource` object of the image
          // that you want to use as the icon...
          imageValue: iconB,
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REQUIRE',
            imageValue: iconC,
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 19

Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing a context menu that shows a loading indicator using deferred menu elements.

Notes
1️⃣ — If you control your ContextMenuView.menuConfig via state, then you can already dynamically add menu items while the context menu is visible (See ContextMenuView Example 10). However, there is no indication in the UI that items are currently being loaded. You can use a "deferred element" in order to add an action item that has a loading indicator. Once you are done loading the content, then you can replace the deferred element with the actual menu items that you want to add. 📝 Note: Deferred elements are only available on iOS 14 and above.
2️⃣ — As mentioned in the previous examples, the MenuConfig.menuItems property can accept an array of MenuElementConfig union type. This means that it can accept an array containing any of the following object types: MenuConfig object, MenuActionConfig, and DeferredMenuElementConfig. If we pass in a DeferredMenuElementConfig to menuItems, it means that we want to create "deferred element" item.
3️⃣ — To create a deferred element, we just need to create a "config" object that has a property containing both type and deferredID. The DeferredMenuElementConfig.type property must be set to a string value of 'deferred'. This indicates that we want to create a deferred element. The DeferredMenuElementConfig.deferredID property must be set to a unique string value. Since we can have multiple deferred elements, the value you pass into this property will be used to identify which deferred element will be replaced with the menu items you want to add when the loading is complete.
4️⃣ — Once the context menu is open, any deferred menu items in MenuConfig.menuItems will trigger the ContextMenuView.onRequestDeferredElement event to fire. Via the event, you will receive two arguments: deferredID string and provider callback function. The deferredID string corresponds to which deferred element that we need to load, while the provider callback function is used to provide the menu items that we want to add and replace the deferred element with.
5️⃣ — The provider callback function accepts an array of MenuElementConfig items. To replace the deferred element with the menu items you want add, simply call the provider callback function with the array of MenuConfig, MenuActionConfig, or DeferredMenuElementConfig objects. 📝 Note A: Since the deferred elements were loaded/replaced using the onRequestDeferredElement event, there are now two sources of truths for the context menu config: One provided via the ContextMenuView.menuConfig prop, and the other via the onRequestDeferredElement event. If you are using a state-controlled menu config, see: ContextMenuView Example 20. 📝 Note B: It is recommended that you cache the items you have loaded, and then combine them with the existing menuConfig once the menu has been closed.

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample19(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample19',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          actionSubtitle: 'Dummy action'
        }, {
          // Create a deferred menu item... 
          // this will act as a placeholder and will be replaced
          // with the actual menu items later
          type: 'deferred',
          
          // if we have multiple deferred items, you can use 
          // the `deferredID` to distinguish between them
          deferredID: 'deferred-01'
        }],
      }}
      
      // this event will fire when a deferred menu item 
      // is present...
      onRequestDeferredElement={async (deferredID, provider) => {
        switch(deferredID) {
          case 'deferred-01':
            // dummy delay, wait for 1 second...
            await Helpers.timeout(1000);

            // provide the items to add to the context menu...
            provider([{
              type: 'action',
              actionKey: 'action-02',
              actionTitle: 'Deferred Item 02',
              actionSubtitle: 'Deferred item...'
            }, {
              type: 'action',
              actionKey: 'action-03',
              actionTitle: 'Deferred Item 03',
              actionSubtitle: 'Deferred item...'
            }]);
            break;
        };
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 20

Summary: Dynamic Menu — An example showing a state-controlled context menu that shows a loading indicator using deferred menu elements.

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample20(props) {
  const [extraMenuItems, setExtraMenuItems] = React.useState([]);

  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = React.useState(true);
  const [didLoadItems, setDidLoadItems] = React.useState(false);

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample20',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          actionSubtitle: 'Dummy action'
        },

        // add deferred item so that the loading indicator
        // appears...
        isLoading && ({
          type: 'deferred',
          deferredID: 'deferred-01'
        }), 

        // add the extra menu items...
        ...extraMenuItems,

        didLoadItems && ({
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuItems: [{
            type: 'action',
            actionKey: 'clear_cache',
            actionTitle: 'Clear Cache',
            actionSubtitle: 'Remove loaded items...',
            menuAttributes: ['destructive'],
          }]
        })],
      }}
      // this event will fire when a deferred menu item is present...
      onMenuWillShow={async () => {
        if(didLoadItems) return;

        // for the purposes of this example, let's add a delay
        // before showing the loading indicator...
        // 
        // this way, we can see the context menu updating and
        // showing the loading indicator.
        // 
        // Ideally, `isLoading` should already be set to `true`
        // before the context menu is shown...
        await Helpers.timeout(750);
        setIsLoading(true);

        // loading...
        // dummy delay, wait for 2 second...
        await Helpers.timeout(2000);
        setDidLoadItems(true);

        // add extra menu items
        setExtraMenuItems([{
          type: 'action',
          actionKey: 'action-02',
          actionTitle: 'Deferred Item 02',
          actionSubtitle: 'Deferred item...'
        }, {
          type: 'action',
          actionKey: 'action-03',
          actionTitle: 'Deferred Item 03',
          actionSubtitle: 'Deferred item...'
        }]);

        // hide the loading indicator
        setIsLoading(false);
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 21

Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample21(props) {

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample21',
        menuPreferredElementSize: 'medium',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey: 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          // ...

        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          // ...
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 22

Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample22(props) {

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: '',
        menuPreferredElementSize: 'small',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey: 'key-01',
          actionTitle: '',
          // ...
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: '',
          // ...
          }
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-03',
          actionTitle: '',
          // ...
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 23

Summary: Menu Element Size — TBA

Notes

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample23(props) {

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: '',
        menuItems: [{
          type: 'action',
          actionKey: 'remove-rating',
          menuAttributes: ['destructive'],
          actionTitle: 'Remove Rating',
           icon: { /** ... */ }
        }, {
          type: 'action',
          actionKey: 'info',
          actionTitle: 'Information',
           icon: { /** ... */ }
        }, {
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuPreferredElementSize: 'small',
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey: 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }],
        }, {
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuPreferredElementSize: 'small',
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey: 'key-02-01',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-02-02',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-02-03',
            actionTitle: '',
            icon: { /** ... */ }
          }],
        }]
      }}
    >
      { /** ... */ }
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 24

Summary: Menu Attributes — keepsMenuPresented

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample24(props) {
  const [actionState1, setActionState1] = React.useState(false);
  const [actionState2, setActionState2] = React.useState(false);
  const [actionState3, setActionState3] = React.useState(false);

  const isResetEnabled = (
    actionState1 ||
    actionState2 ||
    actionState3 
  );

  const handleOnPressMenuItem = ({nativeEvent}) => {
    // ...
  };

  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      style={props.style}
      onPressMenuItem={handleOnPressMenuItem}
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample24',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey: 'key-01',
          actionTitle: `Action 1: ${actionState1? 'on' : 'off'}`,
          menuState: (actionState1? 'on' : 'off'),
          menuAttributes: ['keepsMenuPresented'],
          icon: { /** ... */ }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02',
          actionTitle: `Action 2: ${actionState2? 'on' : 'off'}`,
          menuState  : (actionState2? 'on' : 'off'),
          menuAttributes: ['keepsMenuPresented'],
          icon: { /** ... */ }
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-03',
          actionTitle: `Action 3: ${actionState3? 'on' : 'off'}`,
          menuState: (actionState3? 'on' : 'off'),
          menuAttributes: ['keepsMenuPresented'],
          icon: { /** ... */ }
        }, {
          actionKey: 'key-04',
          actionTitle: `Reset All`,
          menuAttributes: [
            'keepsMenuPresented',
            isResetEnabled? 'destructive' : 'hidden',
          ],
          icon: { /** ... */ }
        }]
      }}
    >
      { /** ... */ }
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 25

Summary: Icon Example — Advanced customization (e.g. scale, weight, paletteColors, hierarchicalColor).

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample25(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      style={props.style}
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample25',
        menuItems: [{
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey: 'key-01-01',
            actionTitle: 'small',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                scale: 'small',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-01-02',
            actionTitle: 'medium',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                scale: 'medium',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-01-03',
            actionTitle: 'large',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                scale: 'large',
              },
            }
          }],
        }, {
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey: 'key-02-01',
            actionTitle: 'ultraLight',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                weight: 'ultraLight',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-02-02',
            actionTitle: 'semibold',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                weight: 'semibold',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-02-03',
            actionTitle: 'black',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'heart',
                weight: 'black',
              },
            }
          }],
        },  {
          type: 'menu',
          menuTitle: '',
          menuOptions: ['displayInline'],
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey: 'key-03-01',
            actionTitle: 'paletteColors',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'delete.left.fill',
                paletteColors: ['red', 'blue']
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-03-02',
            actionTitle: 'semibold',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'delete.left.fill',
                hierarchicalColor: 'red',
              },
            }
          }, {
            actionKey: 'key-03-03',
            actionTitle: 'paletteColors',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'folder.fill.badge.plus',
                paletteColors: ['blue', 'red']
              },
            }
          },  {
            actionKey: 'key-03-04',
            actionTitle: 'hierarchicalColor',
            icon: {
              type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
              imageValue: {
                systemName: 'folder.fill.badge.plus',
                hierarchicalColor: 'blue',
              },
            }
          }],
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** .... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 26

Summary: Icon Example — Network/Remote images as icons.

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample26(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample26',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          menuSubtitle: 'Use "IMAGE_REMOTE_URL" icon',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://picsum.photos/id/1/100'
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          menuSubtitle: '"IMAGE_REMOTE_URL" + shouldLazyLoad',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://picsum.photos/id/2/100'
            },
            imageLoadingConfig: {
              shouldLazyLoad: true,
            },
            imageOptions: {
              cornerRadius: 15,
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          menuSubtitle: '"IMAGE_REMOTE_URL" + shouldLazyLoad + shouldCache',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://picsum.photos/id/2/100'
            },
            imageLoadingConfig: {
              shouldLazyLoad: true,
              shouldCache: true,
            },
            imageOptions: {
              cornerRadius: 30,
              tint: 'rgba(255,0,0,0.5)',
              renderingMode: 'alwaysOriginal',
            },
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 27

Summary: Icon Example — Network/Remote images as icons + fallback image.

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample27(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuViewExample27',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          actionSubtitle: 'fallbackBehavior: whileNotLoaded',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://fake.url.com/asset-1',
              fallbackImage: {
                type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
                imageValue: {
                  systemName: 'trash',
                },
              },
            },
            imageLoadingConfig: {
              // will use the fallback image while the remote
              // image hasn't been loaded yet
              fallbackBehavior: 'whileNotLoaded',
              shouldLazyLoad: true,
              shouldImmediatelyRetryLoading: true,
              maxRetryAttempts: 20,
            },
          }, 
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          actionSubtitle: 'fallbackBehavior: onLoadError',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://fake.url.com/asset-2',
              fallbackImage: {
                type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
                imageValue: {
                  systemName: 'trash',
                },
              },
            },
            imageLoadingConfig: {
              // will use the fallback image when it encounters
              // an error whe loading the remote image
              fallbackBehavior: 'onLoadError',
              shouldLazyLoad: true,
              shouldImmediatelyRetryLoading: true,
              maxRetryAttempts: 20,
            },
          }
        },  {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          actionSubtitle: 'fallbackBehavior: afterFinalAttempt',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_REMOTE_URL',
            imageValue: {
              url: 'https://fake.url.com/asset-3',
              fallbackImage: {
                type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
                imageValue: {
                  systemName: 'trash',
                },
              },
            },
            imageLoadingConfig: {
              // will use the fallback image when it encounters
              // an error whe loading the remote image, and the
              // number of loading attempts exceeds 
              // `maxRetryAttempts` 
              fallbackBehavior: 'afterFinalAttempt',
              shouldLazyLoad: true,
              shouldImmediatelyRetryLoading: true,
              maxRetryAttempts: 20,
            },
          }
        }],
      }}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Example 28

Summary: Programmatically shows the context menu

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuViewExample28(props) {
  const menuRef = React.useRef<ContextMenuView>(null);
  
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      ref={menuRef}
      menuConfig={{ /* ... */ }}
    >
      <ContextMenuCard /* ... */>
        <CardButton
          title={'Show Context Menu'}
          subtitle={'Programmatically shows the context menu'}
          onPress={() => {
            menuRef.current?.presentMenu();
          }}
        />
      </ContextMenuCard>
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 01

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample01() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      isAuxiliaryPreviewEnabled={true}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={[styles.auxRootContainer, {
          // The view you return will be wrapped by another view. 
          // The parent view will be resized to match the width of the aux. 
          // preview.
          //
          // since this view is going to be resized, let's stretch to match the 
          // the size of the parent, and center the content
          flex: 1,
          alignItems: 'center',
          justifyContent: 'center',
        }]}>
          <TouchableOpacity style={styles.buttonContainer}>
            { /** ... */ }
          </TouchableOpacity>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 02

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample02() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      // If you want to immediately show the aux. preview, then
      // set `transitionEntranceDelay` to: `RECOMMENDED`.
      // 
      // The default is: `AFTER_PREVIEW`.
      //
      // You can also pass in a number indicating how long delay
      // is in seconds  (e.g. 0.3).
      //
      // Note: Do not pass in a number below 0.25 to avoid any
      // layout bugs...
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        transitionEntranceDelay: 'RECOMMENDED'
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Faster Transition
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 03

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample03() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Align the aux. preview to the left...
        // 📝 Note: By default, this is set to: `stretchPreview`
        alignmentHorizontal: 'previewLeading',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            To the left (to the left)
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 04

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample04() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Align the aux. preview to the right...
        // 📝 Note: By default, this is set to: `stretchPreview`
        alignmentHorizontal: 'previewTrailing',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Yeah right, yeah right
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 05

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample05() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      // Align the aux. preview to the center of the context
      // menu preview...
      //
      // 📝 Note: By default, this is set to: `stretchPreview`
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        alignmentHorizontal: 'previewCenter',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Center
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      { /** ... */ }
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 06

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample06(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Configure the aux. preview to use the entire width of
        // the screen...
        //
        // 📝 Note: By default, this is set to: `stretchPreview`
        alignmentHorizontal: 'stretchScreen',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <View style={styles.innerContainer}>
            <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
              Stretch to Edges of Screen
            </Text>
          </View>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 07

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample07(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Configure the aux. preview to have a fixed size 
        // of 100 x 100
        width: 100,
        height: 100,
        alignmentHorizontal: 'previewCenter',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={[styles.auxRootContainer, {
          // Parent has been reized to `100x100`,
          // so fit to the size of the parent view...
          flex: 1,
        }]}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            100
          </Text>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            x
          </Text>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            100
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 08

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample08(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample08',
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Configure the aux. preview to always appear on top of
        // the context menu preview...
        //
        // 📝 Note: This is set to `automatic` by default.
        anchorPosition: 'top',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 09

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample09(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      // ...
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Configure the aux. preview to always appear on the
        // bottom of the context menu preview...
        //
        // 📝 Note: This is set to `automatic` by default.
        anchorPosition: 'bottom',
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={styles.auxRootContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Always Bottom
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 10

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample10(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // configure the entrance transition for the aux.
        // preview to use a 'slide' transition...
        transitionEntranceDelay: 0.5,
        transitionConfigEntrance: {
          transition: 'slide',
          duration: 0.4,
          options: ['curveEaseIn'],
        },
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** .... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 11

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample11(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // configure the entrance transition for the aux.
        // preview to use a 'zoom' transition...
        transitionConfigEntrance: {
          transition: 'zoom',
          duration: 0.5,
          options: ['curveEaseOut'],
        },
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 12

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample12(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        transitionConfigEntrance: {
          // configure the entrance transition for the aux.
          // preview to use a 'zoom' transition...
          transition: 'zoomAndSlide',
          duration: 0.4,
          options: ['curveEaseInOut'],

          // change transition offsets
          zoomOffset: 0.2,
          slideOffset: 100,
        },
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 13

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample13(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Add some space between the aux. preview, and the
        // menu preview...
        marginPreview: 30,
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 14

Summary: TBA

Notes
TBA 📝 Note A:

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample14(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // Add some space between the edges of the screen and
        // the aux. preview...
        marginAuxiliaryPreview: 30,
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        // ...
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 15

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...

export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample15(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      menuConfig={{
        // ...
      }}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        // ...
        
        // The space between the aux. preview, and the
        // menu preview...
        // 
        // A negative value means that you want the aux. preview
        // to appear closer to the menu preview.
        //
        // This is particularly useful if the menu preview is
        // too big, and it causes the menu items to go out of 
        // bounds...
        marginPreview: -60,
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={[styles.auxRootContainer, {
          alignItems: 'center',
          justifyContent: 'center',
        }]}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Aux. Preview
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
      previewConfig={{
        previewType: 'CUSTOM',
        previewSize: 'STRETCH',
      }}
      renderPreview={() => (
        <View style={[styles.previewRootContainer, {
          alignItems: 'center',
          justifyContent: 'center',
        }]}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Custom Menu Preview
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      {/** ... */}
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuView Auxiliary Preview - Example 16

Summary: Programmatically shows the auxiliary preview as a popover, without showing the context menu.

Notes
TBA

🔗 Full Example

// 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
export function ContextMenuAuxPreviewExample16(props) {
  const menuRef = React.useRef<ContextMenuView>(null);
  
  return (
    <ContextMenuView
      ref={menuRef}
      menuConfig={/* ... */}
      auxiliaryPreviewConfig={{
        alignmentHorizontal: 'previewCenter',
        transitionEntranceDelay: 'RECOMMENDED',
        height: 100,
        width: 150,
      }}
      renderAuxiliaryPreview={() => (
        <View style={[styles.auxRootContainer, {
          flex: 1,
          alignItems: 'center',
          justifyContent: 'center',
        }]}>
          <Text style={styles.textLabel}>
            Center
          </Text>
        </View>
      )}
    >
      <ContextMenuCard /* ... */>
        <CardButton
          title={'Show Aux. Preview as Popover'}
          onPress={() => {
            menuRef.current?.showAuxiliaryPreviewAsPopover();
          }}
        />
      </ContextMenuCard>
    </ContextMenuView>
  );
};

ContextMenuButton Example 01

Summary: TBA

Notes
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🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...

import { ContextMenuButton } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuButtonExample01() {
  return (
    <ContextMenuButton
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuButtonSimpleExample01',
          menuItems: [{
            actionKey  : 'key-01',
            actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
            actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          }, {
            actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
            actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          }],
      }}
      onPressMenuItem={({nativeEvent}) => {
        Alert.alert(
          'onPressMenuItem Event',
          `actionKey: ${nativeEvent.actionKey} - actionTitle: ${nativeEvent.actionTitle}`
        );
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuButton>
  );
};

ContextMenuButton Example 02

Summary: TBA

Notes
TBA 📝 Note A:

🔗 Full Example

 // 📝 Note: for the sake of brevity, some of the code is omitted...
import { ContextMenuButton } from 'react-native-ios-context-menu';

export function ContextMenuButtonExample02(props) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuButton
      isMenuPrimaryAction={true}
      menuConfig={{
        menuTitle: 'ContextMenuButtonSimpleExample02',
        menuItems: [{
          actionKey  : 'key-01',
          actionTitle: 'Action #1',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'folder',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-02'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #2',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'dial.fill',
            },
          }
        }, {
          actionKey  : 'key-03'   ,
          actionTitle: 'Action #3',
          icon: {
            type: 'IMAGE_SYSTEM',
            imageValue: {
              systemName: 'archivebox.fill',
            },
          }
        }],
      }}
      onPressMenuItem={({nativeEvent}) => {
        Alert.alert(
          'onPressMenuItem Event',
          `actionKey: ${nativeEvent.actionKey} - actionTitle: ${nativeEvent.actionTitle}`
        );
      }}
    >
      {/** Components */}
    </ContextMenuButton>
  );
};

F. Showcase, Tests and Demos

ContextMenuView Test 01

Summary: Test for multiple nested/deep submenus.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 02

Summary: Test for multiple inline menus + nested submenus.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 03

Summary: Test for toggling the menuState on and off.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 04

Summary: Test for changing the menu icons based on the current menuState.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 05

Summary: Test for logging all the menu-related events.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 06

Summary: Test for programmatically adding a menu action item.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 07

Summary: Test for checking the different possible custom menu preview configurations.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 08

Summary: Test for programmatically dismissing the menu.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 09

Summary: Generate new 'deferredID' everytime the context menu is shown/hide. This is a test for cleanupOrphanedDeferredElements.

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuView Test 10

Summary: Test for nested menus, deferred elements, large icons, and small menus,

🔗 Source Code

ContextMenuAuxPreview Test 01

Summary: TBA

🔗 Source Code

Test02Screen

Summary: Repro for Issue #43

🔗 Source Code

Test03Screen

Summary: Repro for Issue #47

🔗 Source Code

G. Meta

H. Licence

MIT

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