Icons/Images do not display with TabBarBottom in React Native

theHarvester picture theHarvester · Apr 22, 2017 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

I've pretty much taken the sample code from the TabNavigator documentation and the icon's/images simply don't appear on iOS or Android. Even the label override doesn't seem to take effect. What am I doing wrong?

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Here's the link to the docs I've been using: https://reactnavigation.org/docs/navigators/tab

Here's my code:

class MyHomeScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    tabBarLabel: 'Not displayed',
    // Note: By default the icon is only shown on iOS. Search the showIcon option below.
    tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
      <Image
        source={require('./chats-icon.png')}
        style={[styles.icon, {tintColor: tintColor}]}
      />
    ),
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Button
        onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('Notifications')}
        title="Go to notifications"
      />
    );
  }
}

class MyNotificationsScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    tabBarLabel: 'Notifications',
    tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
      <Image
        source={require('./notif-icon.png')}
        style={[styles.icon, {tintColor: tintColor}]}
      />
    ),
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Button
        onPress={() => this.props.navigation.goBack()}
        title="Go back home"
      />
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  icon: {
    width: 26,
    height: 26,
  },
});

const MyApp = TabNavigator({
  Displayed: {
    screen: MyHomeScreen,
  },
  Notifications: {
    screen: MyNotificationsScreen,
  },
}, {
  tabBarOptions: {
    activeTintColor: '#e91e63',
  },
});

Answer

theHarvester picture theHarvester · Apr 23, 2017

Alright, I finally figured it out after wanting to slam my face into the keyboard.

The title and tab bar icon is actually a different structure to what's inside the docs.

  const MyApp = TabNavigator({
    Displayed: {
      screen: MyHomeScreen,
      navigationOptions: {
          title: 'Favorites',
          tabBar: {
            icon: ({tintColor}) => (<Image
              source={require('./chats-icon.png')}
              style={{width: 26, height: 26, tintColor: tintColor}}
            />)
          },
      },
    },
    ...

or

 class MyHomeScreen extends React.Component {
    static navigationOptions = {
        title: 'Foo Bar',
        tabBar: {
            icon: ({ tintColor }) => (
              <Image
                source={require('./chats-icon.png')}
                style={{width: 26, height: 26, tintColor: tintColor}}
              />
            ),
        }
      };
 ...