react-native-shimmer

Simple shimmering effect for any view in React Native. Based on Shimmer.

Installation

$ npm install react-native-shimmer --save

Option: With rnpm

$ rnpm link

Option: Manually

Add ios/RNShimmer.xcodeproj to Libraries and add libRNShimmer.a to Link Binary With Libraries under Build Phases. More info and screenshots about how to do this is available in the React Native documentation.

Option: With CocoaPods

Add the following to your Podfile and run pod update:

pod 'react-native-shimmer', :path => 'node_modules/react-native-shimmer'

Usage

NOTE: Shimmer may only have one child.

import Shimmer from 'react-native-shimmer';

<Shimmer>
  <Text>Loading...</Text>
</Shimmer>

Properties

Prop	Description	Default
animating	Wether or not to show shimmering effect.	true
direction	The direction of shimmering animation, valid values are up, down, left, right.	right
pauseDuration	The time interval between shimmerings in milliseconds.	400
animationOpacity	The opacity of the content while it is shimmering.	0.5
opacity	The opacity of the content before it is shimmering.	1
speed	The speed of shimmering, in points per second.	230
highlightLength	The highlight length of shimmering. Range of 0–1.	1
beginFadeDuration	The duration of the fade used when shimmer begins.	0.1
endFadeDuration	The duration of the fade used when shimmer ends.	0.3

License

MIT License. Shimmer is under BSD license. © Joel Arvidsson 2016