react-native-layout-tester

Use an iPad to test your component's layout in different iPhone sizes.

Installation

npm install --save react-native-layout-tester

Usage

In order to test your entire app, first wrap your app in the LayoutTester (works with redux and Navigator as well).

import LayoutTester from "react-native-layout-tester";
    
    //...

    render() {
        return (
            <LayoutTester>
                <Provider store={ store }>
                    <Router
                        initialRoute={ this._initialRoute }
                        ref={ this._setRouter }
                    />
                </Provider>
            </LayoutTester>
        );
    }

Then run you application in the iPad Air simulator (it has enough width to accomodate an iPhone 6+ logical resolution in landscape mode). In order to accomplish this, you will have to set up your xcode solution to "Universal".

NOTICE: You won't need this package in your production bundle, so you can exclude this package by simply not importing it in any file.

Reacting to changes in viewport

This module makes use of the react-native-layout-provider to react to changes in viewports. You can make your styles re-calculate on viewport changes. In order to do this, you can use a decorator shipped in react-native-layout-provider. The decorator will take changes in viewport and pass it through props to your wrapped components.

In your component's code, import the getLayout function.

import { getLayout } from 'react-native-layout-provider';

Then calculate the styles based on the newly added props:

render() {
    const { mode, viewport, portrait } = this.props;
    let style = ...

Finally export your wrapped component.

export default getLayout(layout => layout)(Container);

Here is a sample container component that adjusts the padding based on the width of the viewport.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  StyleSheet,
  View
} from 'react-native';

import { getLayout } from 'react-native-layout-tester';

class Container extends Component {

  render() {
    let { viewport: { width } } = this.props;
    let padding = width * 0.05; //5% of width
    let style = StyleSheet.create({
      container: {
        padding: padding,
        flex: 1,
        justifyContent: 'center',
        alignItems: 'center',
      }
    });
    return (
      <View style={ style.container }>
        { this.props.children }
      </View>
    );
  }
}

export default getLayout(layout => layout)(Container);

You can see more of react-native-layout-provider here.

Receiving dimensions props in production code

If you wrap your components to receive dimensions by props, then you will need these props when running your app on production as well. For doing this, you can pass the noTestWrapConfig prop to LayoutTester and it will not render the testing interface.

For example:

  render() {
    return (
      <LayoutTester
        noTestWrapConfig
      >
        <Container>
          <Text style={styles.welcome}>
            Welcome to React Native!
          </Text>
          <Text style={styles.instructions}>
            To get started, edit index.ios.js
          </Text>
          <Text style={styles.instructions}>
            Yeah!
          </Text>
        </Container>
      </LayoutTester>
    );
  }

noTestWrapConfig can either be a bool, or an object with the properties you want to pass to your wrapped components.

Properties

Prop	Default	Type	Description
viewportChanged	undefined	func	Callback triggered when the viewport changes, either by changing device or rotating.
config	undefined	object	Device screens configuration.
noTestWrapConfig	undefined	object or bool	Device screens configuration to send to wrapped components. If true then config is taken from Dimensions (physical device dimensions)

config (prop)

You can pass whatever device screen sizes you need (useful for android sizes).

    // these are not real measure!!!!

    render() {
        return (
            <LayoutTester
                config={
                    {
                        nexus4: {
                            label: "Nexus 4",
                            width: 364,
                            height: 640
                        },
                        motog: {
                            label: "Moto G",
                            width: 396,
                            height: 640
                        }
                    }
                }
            >
                <Provider store={ store }>
                    <Router
                        initialRoute={ this._initialRoute }
                        ref={ this._setRouter }
                    />
                </Provider>
            </LayoutTester>
        );
    }

noTestWrapConfig (prop)

Here is a slightly more complex example of how to use this prop to pass props to all the wrapped components.

import React, { Component, PropTypes } from "react";
import { Platform, Dimensions } from "react-native";
import LayoutTester from 'react-native-layout-tester';
import Orientation from 'react-native-orientation';
import ExtraDimensions from "react-native-extra-dimensions-android";

let statusBarHeight = 0;
if (Platform.OS === "android") {
  try {
    statusBarHeight = ExtraDimensions.get("STATUS_BAR_HEIGHT");
  } catch(e) {}
}

class App extends Component {

  state = {
    orientation: Orientation.getInitialOrientation()
  };

  _orientationDidChange = orientation => {
    this.setState({ orientation });
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    Orientation.addOrientationListener(this._orientationDidChange);
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    Orientation.removeOrientationListener(this._orientationDidChange);
  }

  render() {
    const { width, height } = Dimensions.get('window');
    return (
      <LayoutTester noTestWrapConfig={{
        mode: 'default',
        width,
        height: height - statusBarHeight,
        portrait: this.state.orientation === 'PORTRAIT'
      }}>
        ...
      </LayoutTester>
    );
  }
}

Known Issues

• Doesn't play well with styles generated based on Dimensions (physical device dimensions).
• Doesn't play well when styles depend on PixelRatio.
• Doesn't play well with styles that depend on keyboard status (yet?).

TODO

• Haven't yet tested it in Android