How to hide bottom navigation bar on a specific screen in react native?

Question

I am using React Native and React Native Navigation to build out my application. Currently, I have three bottom tabs: Home, Upload Video and Messages. Upon selection of the Upload Video tab, I want to render the Upload Video component and hide the bottom tabs on just that screen, and display a header with 'Cancel' (takes them back to the HomeView) and 'Post' buttons (this has already been done). I've had an extremely difficult time hiding the tab bar on this specific screen.

I tried following the code here (How can I hide the bottom tab bar on a specific screen (react-navigation 3.x)); however, that ended up being unsuccessful and I was not able to hide the bottom tabs on any of the screens this way.

Currently, I have this as my bottom navigator:

const BottomTabNavigator = createBottomTabNavigator({
    HomeView: {
        screen: HomeView,
    },
    VideoView: {
        screen: VideoSelectionView
    },
    Messages: {
        screen: SearchView
    }
});

Any insight would be extremely helpful, thanks.

Answer 1

I've traversed the internet like never before to find a solution for this problem as the provided solution by the docs did not work in the slightest.

I had the following navigational Set-Up:

• Bottom Tabs
  • A (NativeStack)
    • 1 (Screen)
    • 2 (Screen)
    • 3 (Screen)
  • B (NativeStack)
  • C (NativeStack)

I wanted to hide the bottom bar in Screen 1. What finally did the trick was the following snippet in the corresponding screen:

useEffect(() => {
  navigation.getParent()?.setOptions({ tabBarStyle: { display: "none" });
  return () => navigation.getParent()?.setOptions({ tabBarStyle: undefined });
}, [navigation]);

The effect is run when the navigation prop updates and with that implicitly after the screen is being opened. With getParent() I get the bottom tabs navigator and can set the options with setOptions(...). To bring the bottom tabs back one has to manually set the options. I solved this by returning the method that resets the tabBarStyle in the call of useEffect(). This call is being made when it's time to clean-up, meaning that it will run as soon as the screen is being unmounted.

May this save same of you of the desperation I had to go through.

Answer 2

on v5 you can modify options using a function and default arg navigation.:

<BottomTab.Screen
      name="Explore"
      component={Explore}
      options={({ navigation }) => {
        const { routes, index } = navigation.dangerouslyGetState();
        const { state: exploreState } = routes[index];
        let tabBarVisible = true;
        if (exploreState) {
          const { routes: exploreRoutes, index: exploreIndex } = exploreState;
          const exploreActiveRoute = exploreRoutes[exploreIndex];
          if (exploreActiveRoute.name === "RewardDetail") tabBarVisible = false;
        }
        return {
          tabBarVisible,
          title: "Explore",
          tabBarLabel: "Explore",
          tabBarIcon: ({ color, size }) => (
            <AntDesign name="search1" color={color} size={size} />
          ),
        };
      }}
    />

see my answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64042879/5288560

Answer 3

In React Navigation V6 add display: none in options under tabBarStyle. Add tabBarButton: () => null, to disable icon in Tab.

<Stack.Screen
    name="Add Product"
    component={AddProduct}
    options={() => ({
      tabBarStyle: {
        display: "none",
      },
      tabBarButton: () => null,
    })}
  />

Answer 4

Since react-navigation 5 is now being used, the above solution doesn't work anymore.

For React-Navigation 5, refer to this link.

Answer 5

just on the Screen you want to hide the bar, set tabBarVisible: false.

<Tab.Screen
    name="SignIn"
    component={SignInScreen}
    options={{
      tabBarVisible: false, //like this
      tabBarButton: (props) => null, //this is additional if you want to hide the tab element from the bottom nav
    }}
  />

Answer 6

In React navigation 5+ I used the following approach to hide a tab bar on a specific screen which was inside a stack navigator of a tab screen. In my tab navigator containing file I made a function, and then set the options property using the function which will trigger dynamically.

function getIsTabBarShown(route) {
    const routeName = getFocusedRouteNameFromRoute(route) ?? routes.DASHBOARD;

    switch (routeName) {
        case routes.MEMBERDETAILS:
            return false;
        default:
            return true;
    }
}

This function will return false when user would go to MemberDetails Page which is inside MemberNavigator Stack.

<Tab.Screen 
    name="MemberTab"
    component={MemberNavigator}
    options={({ route }) => ({
        title: 'Members',
        tabBarVisible: getIsTabBarShown(route),
        tabBarIcon: ({ color, size }) =>
        <MaterialCommunityIcons name="account-group" color={color} 
   size={size} />
})} />

Here is the official docs to learn more click here.

Answer 7

Refer to the documentation by clicking here

Answer 8

Just setting the tabBarStyle to none doesn't work for me, I needed to use the property tabBarVisible too, if using hooks you can do something like that:

export function useHideBottomBar() {
    const navigation = useNavigation();

    useEffect(() => {
        navigation.getParent()?.setOptions({ tabBarStyle: { display: 'none' }, tabBarVisible: false });
        return () =>
            navigation.getParent()?.setOptions({ tabBarStyle: undefined, tabBarVisible: undefined });
    }, [navigation]);
}

Answer 9

After searching and trying a lot of methods I changed the top element View to Modal then hid bottombar, because modal can be upper bottom bar. It's not the best but still useful.

<View>
  //code block
</View> 

to->
         
<Modal animationType='fade' transparent={false} visible={true}>
   /code block
</Modal>