react-native-character-view-2

react-native-character-view

What is this?

A view component to render chinese characters. Currently supports stroke order animations. Quiz functionality coming soon.

Huge shout out to @skishore for his awesome work on https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi! This project would not be possible without his stroke order data.

Getting started

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

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-character-view

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-character-view and add RNCharacterView.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNCharacterView.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

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

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

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

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

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

Windows

Read it! :D

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

• Add using Cl.Json.RNCharacterView; to the usings at the top of the file
• Add new RNCharacterViewPackage() to the List<IReactPackage> returned by the Packages method

Usage

import RNCharacterView from 'react-native-character-view';
import { NativeModules } from 'react-native'

// This will be hidden in future releases
const CharacterViewManager = NativeModules.RNCharacterViewManager;

render() {
    <CharacterView
	character={character}
	ref="characterView"
	style={{flex: 1}}
    />
}

Animate the strokes by calling

 CharacterViewManager.animateStrokes();

##License

GNU