Is it possible to tell a ScrollView to scroll to a specific position when we just navigated to the current screen via StackNavigator?
I have two screens; Menu and Items. The Menu is a list of Buttons, one for each item. The Items screen contain a Carousel built using ScrollView with the picture and detailed description of each Item.
When I click on a button in the Menu screen, I want to navigate to the Items screen, and automatically scroll to the Item that the button represent.
I read that you can pass in parameters when using the StackNavigator like so: but I don't know how to read out that parameter in my Items screen.
navigate('Items', { id: '1' })
So is this something that is possible in React Native and how do I do it? Or perhaps I'm using the wrong navigator?
Here's a dumbed down version of my two screens:
App.js:
const SimpleApp = StackNavigator({
Menu: { screen: MenuScreen},
Items: { screen: ItemScreen }
}
);
export default class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return <SimpleApp />;
}
}
Menu.js
export default class Menu extends React.Component {
constructor(props){
super(props)
this.seeDetail = this.seeDetail.bind(this)
}
seeDetail(){
const { navigate } = this.props.navigation;
navigate('Items')
}
render(){
<Button onPress={this.seeDetail} title='1'/>
<Button onPress={this.seeDetail} title='2'/>
}
}
Items.js
export default class Items extends React.Component {
render(){
let scrollItems = [] //Somecode that generates and array of items
return (
<View>
<View style={styles.scrollViewContainer}>
<ScrollView
horizontal
pagingEnabled
ref={(ref) => this.myScroll = ref}>
{scrollItems}
</ScrollView>
</View>
</View>
)
}
}
P.S I am specifically targeting Android at the moment, but ideally there could be a cross-platform solution.
I read that you can pass in parameters when using the StackNavigator like so: but I don't know how to read out that parameter in my Items screen.
That is achieved by accessing this.props.navigation.state.params
inside your child component.
I think the best time to call scrollTo
on your scrollview reference is when it first gets assigned. You're already giving it a reference and running a callback function - I would just tweak it so that it also calls scrollTo
at the same time:
export default class Items extends React.Component {
render(){
let scrollItems = [] //Somecode that generates and array of items
const {id} = this.props.navigation.state.params;
return (
<View>
<View style={styles.scrollViewContainer}>
<ScrollView
horizontal
pagingEnabled
ref={(ref) => {
this.myScroll = ref
this.myScroll.scrollTo() // !!
}>
{scrollItems}
</ScrollView>
</View>
</View>
)
}
}
And this is why I use FlatLists or SectionLists (which inherit from VirtualizedList) instead of ScrollViews. VirtualizedList
has a scrollToIndex function which is much more intuitive. ScrollView's scrollTo expects x and y parameters meaning that you would have to calculate the exact spot to scroll to - multiplying width of each scroll item by the index of the item you're scrolling to. And if there is padding involved for each item it becomes more of a pain.