react-native-selectable-text

Demo

Android

iOS

Usage

import { SelectableText } from "@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text";

// Use normally, it is a drop-in replacement for react-native/Text
<SelectableText
  menuItems={["Foo", "Bar"]}
  /* 
    Called when the user taps in a item of the selection menu:
    - eventType: (string) is the label
    - content: (string) the selected text portion
    - selectionStart: (int) is the start position of the selected text
    - selectionEnd: (int) is the end position of the selected text
   */
  onSelection={({ eventType, content, selectionStart, selectionEnd }) => {}}
  value="I crave star damage"
/>;

Getting started

$ npm install @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text

Manual installation

iOS - Binary Linking (Alternative 1)

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ @astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text and add RNSelectableText.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNSelectableText.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

iOS - Pods (Alternative 2)

1. Add pod 'RNSelectableText', :path => '../node_modules/@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text/ios/RNSelectableText.podspec' to your projects podfile
2. run pod install

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.astrocoders.selectabletext.RNSelectableTextPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNSelectableTextPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-selectable-text'
   project(':react-native-selectable-text').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/@astrocoders/react-native-selectable-text/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-selectable-text')
   

Props

name	description	type	default
value	text content	string	""
onSelection	Called when the user taps in a item of the selection menu	({ eventType: string, content: string, selectionStart: int, selectionEnd: int }) => void	() => {}
menuItems	context menu items	array(string)	[]
style	additional styles to be applied to text	Object	null
highlights	array of text ranges that should be highlighted with an optional id	array({ id: string, start: int, end: int })	[]
highlightColor	highlight color	string	null
onHighlightPress	called when the user taps the highlight	(id: string) => void	() => {}
appendToChildren	element to be added in the last line of text	ReactNode	null