React Native Typewriter

React Native text component with animated typewriter effect.

Installation

yarn add @sucho/react-native-typewriter

npm install --save @sucho/react-native-typewriter

Usage

Add the Typewriter component to your app

import React from 'react'
import { StyleSheet, View } from 'react-native'
import TypeWriter from 'react-native-type-writer'

const BACKGROUND = '#263238'
const WHITE = '#ffffff'
const PINK = '#c2185b'

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    padding: 24,
    backgroundColor: BACKGROUND,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  typeWriterText: {
    color: WHITE,
    fontSize: 24,
  },
  typeWriterCursorText: {
    color: PINK,
    fontSize: 24,
  },
})

const App = () => {
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <TypeWriter
        textArray={['Hello', 'How', 'Are', 'You', 'Doing?']}
        loop
        speed={200}
        delay={500}
        textStyle={styles.typeWriterText}
        cursorStyle={styles.typeWriterCursorText}
      />
    </View>
  )
}

Documentation

The Typewriter has the following props

text (Mandatory)

type: Array of Strings

The Typerwriter component will animate each string one by one. If there’s only one string, just pass a single string as a single item of the array

type: boolean default: false

After all the strings have been types out, the Text will start looping from the beginning if loop=true. Else, the string will be left visible

speed

type: number default: 300

The speed of the typing animation. Lower value is higher speed

delay

type: number default: 40

Delay between two strings in the text array

textStyle

type: TextStyle

Style of the Text being typed

cursorStyle

type: TextStyle

Style of the blinking cursor

License

Released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details

GitHub

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