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} />
        </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

Methods

.show()

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

Debugging

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