React Native Custom Tabs

Chrome Custom Tabs for React Native. Custom Tabs is supported only Chrome for Android. For this reason, the interface is the same, but the behavior is following:

• iOS
  If Chrome is installed, open the URL in it. If it is not installed, open in Safari.

• Android
  If Chrome is installed, open the URL in Chrome that you have customized some of the look & feel. If it is not installed, open in other browser.

Customization and detailed behavior refer to the Usage.

Installation

npm install react-native-custom-tabs --save

To link the native module automatically, it is recommended that you use the rnpm.

rnpm link

Android

In Android, Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

And, provide CustomTabsPackage in your Application class.

@Override
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
    return Arrays.asList(
            ...,
            new CustomTabsPackage()
    );
}

If you use version 0.1.5 or higher, change the app build.gradle.

android {
    ...
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "25.0.1"
}
 
dependencies {
    ...
    compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.1"
}

Usage

Open the URL as Linking of React Native.

CustomTabs.openURL('https://www.google.com').then((launched: {boolean}) => {
  console.log(`Launched custom tabs: ${launched}`);
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err)
});

Customized for Android

You can customize the look & feel in Android. The following option is ignored in iOS.

import {
    ANIMATIONS_SLIDE,
    ANIMATIONS_FADE
} from 'react-native-custom-tabs';
 
CustomTabs.openURL(url, {
  toolbarColor: '#607D8B',
  enableUrlBarHiding: true,
  showPageTitle: true,
  enableDefaultShare: true,
  // For value, specify only full qualifier or only resource name.
  // In the case of the resource name, the module complements the application package in java side.
  animations: {
    startEnter: 'com.github.droibit.android.reactnative.customtabs.example:anim/slide_in_bottom',
    startExit: 'com.github.droibit.android.reactnative.customtabs.example:anim/slide_out_bottom',
    endEnter: 'com.github.droibit.android.reactnative.customtabs.example:anim/slide_in_bottom',
    endExit: 'com.github.droibit.android.reactnative.customtabs.example:anim/slide_out_bottom',
  },
  // or
  animations: ANIMATIONS_SLIDE, // or ANIMATIONS_FADE
  headers: {
    'my-custom-header': 'my custom header value'
  }
});

The option to support:

property	type	default	description
toolbarColor	string	undefined	the Toolbar color. Supported formats are: #RRGGBB, #AARRGGBB, etc.
enableUrlBarHiding	boolean	undefined	Enables the url bar to hide as the user scrolls down on the page.
showPageTitle	boolean	undefined	Sets whether the title should be shown in the custom tab.
enableDefaultShare	boolean	undefined	Whether to add a default shared items of the menu.
animations	Object	undefined	Sets the exit and start animations. ANIMATIONS_FADE, ANIMATIONS_SLIDE or custom object with string properties startEnter, startExit, endEnter and endExit each defining an Android animation resource ID to use for the animations, such as com.github.droibit.android.reactnative.customtabs:anim/slide_in_right.
headers	Object	undefined	Sets any custom headers that should be used.

undefined property is the default behavior of the Custom Tabs.

Customize and default look & feel.

License

Copyright (C) 2016 Shinya Kumagai

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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