React Native Push Notification Popup

Features

• Support "pan" gesture
• Support "onPress" gesture feedback
• Written in pure-JS using official react-native Animation package
  • Which means it supports all Expo/CRNA apps
• Support iPhone X, XS, Max (yeah that notch)
• Support Android native "elevation"

Motivations

Blog post

1. In some apps, you may just want to display reminders to user, without going through those troublesome push notification setups
2. Expo/CNRA apps cannot display push notification while app is in foreground
3. Even if you eject, you still need to configure iOS and Android separately with native codes

This package is here to help. Just show your own notification popup to your users!

Installation

# yarn, recommended
yarn add react-native-push-notification-popup

# or npm
npm install react-native-push-notification-popup --save

Usage

Declare Component

Put it in a wrapper component. (Maybe where you handle your incoming push notifications)

import NotificationPopup from 'react-native-push-notification-popup';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <MaybeYourNavigator />
        <NotificationPopup ref={ref => this.popup = ref} />
      </View>
    );
  }
// ...

IMPORTANT: Remember to put it on the bottom of other components, because React render from back to front in order of declaration. We do not use zIndex becuase it is problematic on Android.

Optional: Customize your popup

// Render function
const renderCustomPopup = ({ appIconSource, appTitle, timeText, title, body }) => (
  <View>
    <Text>{title}</Text>
    <Text>{body}</Text>
    <Button title='My button' onPress={() => console.log('Popup button onPress!')} />
  </View>
);

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
      return (
        <View style={styles.container}>
          <NotificationPopup
            ref={ref => this.popup = ref}
            renderPopupContent={renderCustomPopup}
            shouldChildHandleResponderStart={true}
            shouldChildHandleResponderMove={true}
            isSkipStatusBarPadding={true} />
        </View>
      );
    }
// ...

Show it!

componentDidMount() {
  this.popup.show({
    onPress: function() {console.log('Pressed')},
    appIconSource: require('./assets/icon.jpg'),
    appTitle: 'Some App',
    timeText: 'Now',
    title: 'Hello World',
    body: 'This is a sample message.\nTesting emoji 😀',
    slideOutTime: 5000
  });
}

Props

Param	Type	Default	Description
renderPopupContent	function (options?: { appIconSource?: ImageSourcePropType; appTitle?: string; timeText?: string; title?: string;body?: string; }) => React.ReactElement<any>	null	Render your own custom popup body (Optional)
shouldChildHandleResponderStart	boolean	false	By default, parent popup will prevent bubbling event to child. This should be set to true if you have button inside your custom popup that wants to receive the event.
shouldChildHandleResponderMove	boolean	false	By default, parent popup will prevent bubbling event to child. This should be set to true if you have button inside your custom popup that wants to receive the event.
isSkipStatusBarPadding	boolean	false	Set this to true if your app is an Android app with non-translucent StatusBar. (See #35)

Methods

.show()

Param	Type	Default	Description
onPress	Function	null	Callback to be called when user press the popup
appIconSource	Image source	null	Icon on the upper left
appTitle	String	''	Usually your app name, but you can also customize it
timeText	String	''	Text on the upper right
title	String	''	Message title
body	String	''	Message body (support multi-line)
slideOutTime	Number	4000	Time until notification slides out

Star History

Roadmap

• Add testing
• Add example/ project
• Support showing it globally
• Customizing props: speed, duration, etc
• Support image on the right-side
• Android material design style
• Other types of popup, e.g. without app icon
• More usage examples
• Identify peerDependencies on react-native

Contributing

Using demo project

• Refer to this demo project for local debugging

General Steps

1. Clone this repo
2. Run yarn --production
   1. (Installing dependencies without --production will include devDependencies (e.g. react-native), which causes crashes)
3. Create a react-native project next to it
4. Add dependency to package.json
   1. "react-native-push-notification-popup": "file:../react-native-push-notification-popup"
5. Try it
6. Re-run yarn --production whenever there is any code change

Linting

1. Run yarn (Install devDependencies)
2. Run yarn run lint

License

MIT License. © Carson Wah 2018