@react-native-menu/menu

Android PopupMenu and iOS14+ UIMenu components for react-native. Falls back to ActionSheet for versions below iOS14.

| Android | iOS 14+ | iOS 13 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | |

Installation

via npm:

npm install @react-native-menu/menu

via yarn:

yarn add @react-native-menu/menu

Linking

The package is automatically linked when building the app. All you need to do is:

npx pod-install

Usage

import { MenuView, MenuComponentRef } from '@react-native-menu/menu';

// ...

const App = () => {
  const menuRef = useRef<MenuComponentRef>(null);
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Button
        title="Show Menu with ref (Android only)"
        onPress={() => menuRef.current?.show()}
      />
      <MenuView
        ref={menuRef}
        title="Menu Title"
        onPressAction={({ nativeEvent }) => {
          console.warn(JSON.stringify(nativeEvent));
        }}
        actions={[
          {
            id: 'add',
            title: 'Add',
            titleColor: '#2367A2',
            image: Platform.select({
              ios: 'plus',
              android: 'ic_menu_add',
            }),
            imageColor: '#2367A2',
            subactions: [
              {
                id: 'nested1',
                title: 'Nested action',
                titleColor: 'rgba(250,180,100,0.5)',
                subtitle: 'State is mixed',
                image: Platform.select({
                  ios: 'heart.fill',
                  android: 'ic_menu_today',
                }),
                imageColor: 'rgba(100,200,250,0.3)',
                state: 'mixed',
              },
              {
                id: 'nestedDestructive',
                title: 'Destructive Action',
                attributes: {
                  destructive: true,
                },
                image: Platform.select({
                  ios: 'trash',
                  android: 'ic_menu_delete',
                }),
              },
            ],
          },
          {
            id: 'share',
            title: 'Share Action',
            titleColor: '#46F289',
            subtitle: 'Share action on SNS',
            image: Platform.select({
              ios: 'square.and.arrow.up',
              android: 'ic_menu_share',
            }),
            imageColor: '#46F289',
            state: 'on',
          },
          {
            id: 'destructive',
            title: 'Destructive Action',
            attributes: {
              destructive: true,
            },
            image: Platform.select({
              ios: 'trash',
              android: 'ic_menu_delete',
            }),
          },
        ]}
        shouldOpenOnLongPress={false}
      >
        <View style={styles.button}>
          <Text style={styles.buttonText}>Test</Text>
        </View>
      </MenuView>
    </View>
  );
};

Declarative usage

It's also possible to obtain the action is a more React-ish, declarative fashion. Refer to the react-to-imperative package, and see an example here.

Reference

Props

ref (Android only)

Ref to the menu component.

| Type | Required | |------|----------| | ref | No |

title (iOS only)

The title of the menu.

| Type | Required | |--------|----------| | string | Yes |

isAnchoredToRight (Android only)

Boolean determining if menu should anchored to right or left corner of parent view.

| Type | Required | |---------|----------| | boolean | No |

shouldOpenOnLongPress

Boolean determining if menu should open after long press or on normal press

| Type | Required | |---------|----------| | boolean | No |

actions

Actions to be displayed in the menu.

| Type | Required | |--------------|----------| | MenuAction[] | Yes |

themeVariant (iOS only)

String to override theme of the menu. If you want to control theme universally across your app, see this package.

| Type | Required | |-----------------------|----------| | enum('light', 'dark') | No |

MenuAction

Object representing Menu Action.

export type MenuAction = {
  /**
   * Identifier of the menu action.
   * The value set in this id will be returned when menu is selected.
   */
  id?: string;
  /**
   * The action's title.
   */
  title: string;
  /**
   * (Android only)
   * The action's title color.
   * @platform Android
   */
  titleColor?: number | ColorValue;
  /**
   * (iOS14+ only)
   * An elaborated title that explains the purpose of the action.
   * @platform iOS
   */
  subtitle?: string;
  /**
   * The attributes indicating the style of the action.
   */
  attributes?: MenuAttributes;
  /**
   * (iOS14+ only)
   * The state of the action.
   * @platform iOS
   */
  state?: MenuState;
  /**
   * (Android and iOS13+ only)
   * - The action's image.
   * - Allows icon name included in project or system (Android) resources drawables and
   * in SF Symbol (iOS)
   * @example // (iOS)
   * image="plus"
   * @example // (Android)
   * image="ic_menu_add"
   */
  image?: string;
  /**
   * (Android and iOS13+ only)
   * - The action's image color.
   */
  imageColor?: number | ColorValue;
  /**
   * (Android and iOS14+ only)
   * - Actions to be displayed in the sub menu
   * - On Android it does not support nesting next sub menus in sub menu item
   */
  subactions?: MenuAction[];
};

MenuAttributes

The attributes indicating the style of the action.

type MenuAttributes = {
  /**
   * An attribute indicating the destructive style.
   */
  destructive?: boolean;
  /**
   * An attribute indicating the disabled style.
   */
  disabled?: boolean;
  /**
   * An attribute indicating the hidden style.
   */
  hidden?: boolean;
};

MenuState

The state of the action.

/**
 * The state of the action.
 * - off: A constant indicating the menu element is in the “off” state.
 * - on: A constant indicating the menu element is in the “on” state.
 * - mixed: A constant indicating the menu element is in the “mixed” state.
 */
type MenuState = 'off' | 'on' | 'mixed';

onPressAction

Callback function that will be called when selecting a menu item. It will contain id of the given action.

| Type | Required | |-------------------------|----------| | ({nativeEvent}) => void | No |

Events

onCloseMenu

Callback function that will be called when the menu is dismissed. This event fires at the start of the dismissal, before any animations complete.

| Type | Required | |------------|----------| | () => void | No |

onOpenMenu

Callback function that will be called when the menu is opened. This event fires right before the menu is displayed.

| Type | Required | |------------|----------| | () => void | No |

Example usage:

<MenuView
  onOpenMenu={() => {
    console.log('Menu was opened');
  }}
  onCloseMenu={() => {
    console.log('Menu was closed');
  }}
  // ... other props
>
  <View>
    <Text>Open Menu</Text>
  </View>
</MenuView>

Custom icons (Android)

You might want to use custom icons in the MenuAction image attribute. To do so, follow these steps.

1. Search for your icon on e.g. Material Icons, customize the fill, weight, grade etc. to your liking and then press the Android tab and click Download. This wil download an xml file, e.g. search_24px.xml. You can create your own icon or get it somewhere else, as long as it is in a format that Android understands.

2. If using bare react-native, copy the downloaded xml file to your android/app/src/main/res/drawable folder. If you are using Expo, add a dependency on @expo/config-plugins, and then you can use an expo config plugin to copy the file from your assets folder to the drawable folder. Copy the config plugin to your app and reference it in your app.json or app.config.js in the plugins section like this:

   {
     "expo": {
       "plugins": [
         [
           "./plugin/withAndroidDrawables",
           {
             "drawableFiles": [ "./assets/my_icon.xml" ]
           }
         ]
       ]
     }
   }
   

3. In your MenuAction you can now reference the icon using its file name, without the .xml extension. For example, image: 'my_icon' will use the my_icon.xml file you copied to the drawable folder.

4. Remember to run a new build to see changes to these icons.

Testing with Jest

In some cases, you might want to mock the package to test your components. You can do this by using the jest.mock function.

import type { MenuComponentProps } from '@react-native-menu/menu';

jest.mock('@react-native-menu/menu', () => ({
  MenuView: jest.fn((props: MenuComponentProps) => {
    const React = require('react');

    class MockMenuView extends React.Component {
      render() {
        return React.createElement(
          'View',
          { testID: props.testID },
          // Dynamically mock each action
          props.actions.map(action =>
            React.createElement('Button', {
              key: action.id,
              title: action.title,
              onPress: () => {
                if (action.id && props?.onPressAction) {
                  props.onPressAction({ nativeEvent: { event: action.id } });
                }
              },
              testID: action.id
            })
          ),
          this.props.children
        );
      }
    }

    return React.createElement(MockMenuView, props);
  })
}));

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT