react-native-selectable-text

Demo

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Usage

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

// Use normally, it is a drop-in replacement for react-native/Text
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

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

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#### 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 |
| TextComponent | Text component used to render value` | ReactNode | |
| textValueProp | text value prop for TextComponent. Should be used when passing TextComponent. Defaults to 'children' which works for | string | 'children' |
| textComponentProps | additional props to pass to TextComponent | object | null |