Animated TabBar

A 60FPS animated tab bar with a variety of cool animation presets 😎

Features

60FPS smooth animation for all presets.
Fully integrated with React Navigation v4 & v5.
Standalone usage.
Right-to-left layout support.
Accessibility support.
Written in TypeScript.

Installation

yarn add @gorhom/animated-tabbar
# or
npm install @gorhom/animated-tabbar

Also, you need to install react-native-reanimated, react-native-gesture-handler & react-native-svg, and follow their installation instructions.

Usage

Originally Animated TabBar worked only with React Navigation, but I notice that it could be use as a standalone component and be more useful for the community.

Now the library export two main components:

AnimatedTabBar ( default ) : the React Navigation integrated tab bar.
AnimatedTabBarView: the standalone tab bar.

Standalone Component

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, Text, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
import AnimatedTabBar, {TabsConfig, BubbleTabBarItemConfig} from '@gorhom/animated-tabbar';

const tabs: TabsConfig<BubbleTabBarItemConfig> = {
  Home: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#5B37B7',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(91,55,183,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,0)',
    },
  },
  Profile: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#1194AA',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(17,148,170,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,0)',
    },
  },
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#999',
  },
  tabBarContainer: {
    borderRadius: 25,
  },
});

export default function App() {
  const [index, setIndex] = useState(0);
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Text>{index}</Text>
      <AnimatedTabBarView
        tabs={tabs}
        itemOuterSpace={{
          horizontal: 6,
          vertical: 12,
        }}
        itemInnerSpace={12}
        iconSize={20}
        style={styles.tabBarContainer}
        index={index}
        onIndexChange={setIndex}
      />
    </View>
  )
}

React Navigation v5 (TypeScript)

import React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import AnimatedTabBar, {TabsConfig, BubbleTabBarItemConfig} from '@gorhom/animated-tabbar';

const tabs: TabsConfig<BubbleTabBarItemConfig> = {
  Home: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#5B37B7',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(91,55,183,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,0)',
    },
  },
  Profile: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#1194AA',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(17,148,170,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,0)',
    },
  },
};

const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tab.Navigator
        tabBar={props => (
          <AnimatedTabBar tabs={tabs} {...props} />
        )}
      >
        <Tab.Screen
          name="Home"
          component={HomeScreen}
        />
        <Tab.Screen
          name="Profile"
          component={ProfileScreen}
        />
      </Tab.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  )
}

React Navigation v5 (JavaScript)

import React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import AnimatedTabBar from '@gorhom/animated-tabbar';

const tabs = {
  Home: { // < Screen name
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#5B37B7',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(91,55,183,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,0)',
    },
  },
  Profile: { // < Screen name
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#1194AA',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(17,148,170,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,0)',
    },
  },
};

const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tab.Navigator
        tabBar={props => (
          <AnimatedTabBar tabs={tabs} {...props} />
        )}
      >
        <Tab.Screen
          name="Home"
          component={HomeScreen}
        />
        <Tab.Screen
          name="Profile"
          component={ProfileScreen}
        />
      </Tab.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  )
}

React Navigation v4

import React from 'react';
import {createAppContainer} from 'react-navigation';
import {createBottomTabNavigator} from 'react-navigation-tabs';
import {SafeAreaProvider} from 'react-native-safe-area-context';
import AnimatedTabBar, {TabsConfig, BubbleTabBarItemConfig} from '@gorhom/animated-tabbar';

const tabs: TabsConfig<BubbleTabConfig> = {
  Home: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#5B37B7',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(91,55,183,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(223,215,243,0)',
    },
  },
  Profile: {
    labelStyle: {
      color: '#1194AA',
    },
    icon: {
      component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
      activeColor: 'rgba(17,148,170,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,1)',
    },
    background: {
      activeColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,1)',
      inactiveColor: 'rgba(207,235,239,0)',
    },
  },
};

const TabNavigator = createBottomTabNavigator(
  {
    Home: HomeScreen,
    Profile: ProfileScreen,
  },
  {
    tabBarComponent: props => <AnimatedTabBar tabs={tabs} {...props} />,
  },
);

const AppContainer = createAppContainer(TabNavigator);

export default () => (
  <SafeAreaProvider>
    <AppContainer />
  </SafeAreaProvider>
);

To configure animated icons, please have a look at Animated Icons.

Props

name	description	required	type	default
`preset`	Animation preset, currently options are `['bubble', 'flashy', 'material']`.	NO	`PresetEnum`	'bubble'
`tabs`	Tabs configurations. A generic dictionary of selected preset tab config.	YES	`TabsConfig<T>`
`style`	View style to be applied to tab bar container, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	StyleProp
`duration`	Animation duration, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	number
`easing`	Animation easing function, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	`EasingFunction`
`itemInnerSpace`	Tab item inner space to be added to the tab item, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	number \| `Space`
`itemOuterSpace`	Tab item outer space to be added to the tab item, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	number \| `Space`
`itemContainerWidth`	Tab item width stretch strategy, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	'auto' \| 'fill'
`iconSize`	Tab item icon size, `default value will be based on selected preset`.	NO	number
`isRTL`	Tab bar layout and animation direction.	NO	boolean	false
`onLongPress`	Callback on item long press, `by default it is integrated with React Navigation`.	NO	(index: number) => void	noop

Preset Configurations

Some presets will have its own configurations - like material - which they will be added the root view props.

Material Preset Example

notice here we added animation, inactiveOpacity & inactiveScale to the root view.

import React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import AnimatedTabBar, {TabsConfig, MaterialTabBarItemConfig} from '@gorhom/animated-tabbar';

const tabs: TabsConfig<MaterialTabBarItemConfig> = {
Home: {
  icon: {
    component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
    color: 'rgba(255,255,255,1)',
  },
  ripple: {
    color: '#5B37B7',
  },
},
Profile: {
  icon: {
    component: /* ICON COMPONENT */,
    color: 'rgba(255,255,255,1)',
  },
  ripple: {
    color: '#1194AA',
  },
},
};

const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

export default function App() {
return (
  <NavigationContainer>
    <Tab.Navigator
      tabBar={props => (
        <AnimatedTabBar
          tabs={tabs}
          animation="iconWithLabelOnFocus"
          inactiveOpacity={0.25}
          inactiveScale={0.5}
          {...props}
        />
      )}
    >
      <Tab.Screen
        name="Home"
        component={HomeScreen}
      />
      <Tab.Screen
        name="Profile"
        component={ProfileScreen}
      />
    </Tab.Navigator>
  </NavigationContainer>
)
}

Presets

Originally Animated TabBar started with Bubble as the only animation preset embedded. However, I felt the library structure could include many other variety of animation presets.