React Native Responsive Table View

A simple and responsive layout component for table views pretty similar to the HTML DOM table element.

Installation

yarn add react-native-responsive-table-view

Motivation

React native doesn't provide native elements for table layout like HTML, so using the three components Table, Row and Cell we can have a similar UI experience.

Usage

import Table from 'react-native-responsive-table-view'

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SafeAreaView >
      <View>
        <Table>
          <Table.Row>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 1</Text></Table.Cell>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 2</Text></Table.Cell>
          </Table.Row>
          <Table.Row>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 3</Text></Table.Cell>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 4</Text></Table.Cell>
          </Table.Row>
          <Table.Row>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 5</Text></Table.Cell>
            <Table.Cell><Text>text 6</Text></Table.Cell>
          </Table.Row>
        </Table>
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  )
}

export default App

How it works

Table

Table represents the container for all our rows, it has some default stylings

{
    width: '100%',
    borderRadius: 4,
    borderStyle: 'solid',
    borderWidth: 1,
    display: 'flex',
    flexDirection: 'column',
    borderColor: BORDER_COLOR,
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
}

Props

Name	Required	Default	Description
children	true	-	The array of rows the table should display, preferably should be the Row element provided by this package but feel free to provide your own
style	false	{}	Override the styles for the given table (border, color....)
isScrollable	false	false	Makes the table itself scrollable
height	false	undefined	can be used to set the height of the table, should be used with isScrollable can also be provided by the style prop

Row

The row element in the table, each of it's children will have equal width and the sum of their total width will equal to the container width (if it has 4 children each will have width of 25% and height of the maximum child's height). It also comes with some default styles

{
    width: '100%',
    display: 'flex',
    flexDirection: 'row',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    borderBottomWidth: 1,
    borderStyle: 'solid',
    borderColor: BORDER_COLOR,
  },

Props

Name	Required	Default	Description
children	true	-	The array of cells should be displayed in the row, preferably should be the Cell element provided by this package but feel free to provide your own
style	false	{}	Override the styles for the given row (padding ...)
lastStyle	false	{}	Style that will only be applied to the last row
firstStyle	false	{}	Style that will only be applied to the first row

Cell

The cell element in each row. Also has default stylings

 {
    flexGrow: 1,
    flexShrink: 1,
    display: 'flex',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    paddingVertical: 4,
    paddingHorizontal: 4,
 }

Props

Name	Required	Default	Description
children	true	-	The children /child to be displayed inside the cell
style	false	{}	Override the styles for the given cell (padding ...)
lastStyle	false	{}	Style that will only be applied to the last cell in a row
firstStyle	false	{}	Style that will only be applied to the first cell in a row

General Notes

• Check out the examples here

Future Improvements

• add is last style and is first style to Row element to provide different styling for the last or first row as in some cases they might be handled differently.

• add is last style and is first style to Cell element to provide different styling for the last or first cell as in some cases they might be handled differently.

• add refs to all the components

• add onPress prop for rows and cells