React Native Animated Background Color View

A modified React Native View component that animates it's backgroundColor when color prop changes. Works on iOS & Android.

Example

Installation

npm install react-native-animated-background-color-view --save

Usage

Import AnimatedBackgroundColorView component

import { AnimatedBackgroundColorView } from 'react-native-animated-background-color-view';

Use as follows:

<AnimatedBackgroundColorView color='#00aced' />

Each time the color prop value changes the backgroundColor will use the React Native timing animation to animate from the previous value to the current value.

Animate On Component Mount

You can also specifiy an initial color for the background color to animate from when the component mounts:

<AnimatedBackgroundColorView
  color='#00aced'
  initialColor='red'
/>

On mount the component backgroundColor will be blue and then animate to #00aced.

Using the children Prop

The AnimatedBackgroundColorView component works just like the standard React Native View component. AnimatedBackgroundColorView is designed to be nested inside other View components or other AnimatedBackgroundColorView components and can have 0 to many children of any type.

class AnimatedBackgroundColorViewWithText extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <AnimatedBackgroundColorView
        color='#00aced'
        initialColor='red'
        style={{ flex: 1 }}
      >
        <Text>Hello, world!</Text>
      </AnimatedBackgroundColorView>
    );
  }
}

Configuration

You can configure AnimatedBackgroundColorView by passing the following props:

prop	type/valid values	default	description
color	string	'#00aced'	the color value to which the component backgroundColor will animate
delay	number	0	the length in milliseconds the component will wait before animating to the next color
duration	number	2400	the length in milliseconds the timing animation will last
easing	React Native Easing function	Easing.out(Easing.exp)	the easing function to define animation curve
initialColor	string	undefined	the color value from which the component backgroundColor will animate on mount
style	React Native style object	undefined	additional styles applied to the component

Built With

• React Native - A framework for building native apps using React

Versioning

I use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Joey Schroeder - Initial work - joeyschroeder.com

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Contributing

Please submit a pull request with any features/fixes for the project. I apologize in advance for the slow action on pull requests and issues. Please follow the ESLint rules for the project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the MIT Open Source Initiative for details.

Acknowledgments

Hat tip to anyone who's code was used! 🤠