React Native activeTintColor not getting applied on selected drawer item. My react native navigation routes looks like,

-> DrawerNavigator
   -> StackNavigator
      -> HomeScreen
      -> FirstScreen
      -> SecondScreen
      -> ThirdScreen

routes.js

const RootStack = createStackNavigator(
  {
    Home: { screen: HomeScreen },
    ChapterGroup: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen },
    Chapter: { screen: ChapterScreen },
  }

const DrawerStack = createDrawerNavigator(
  {
    Home: {
      screen: RootStack,
      params: { id: 1 }
    },
    Kural: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen, params: { id: 2 } },
    Detail: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen, params: { id: 3 } }
  }, { contentComponent: DrawerComponent}
}
export default DrawerStack;

I managed to display the First, Second, thirdScreens on the sidebar by creating a new DrawerComponent which will navigate to the appropriate stack screen on drawer item click.

DrawerComponent.js

resetStack = route => {
 let pressedDrwaerItem = route.route.key;
 let id = route.route.params.id;
 this.props.navigation.dispatch(
   StackActions.reset({
    index: 1,
    actions: [
      NavigationActions.navigate({
        routeName: "Home"
      }),
      NavigationActions.navigate({
        routeName: "ChapterGroup",
        params: { title: pressedDrwaerItem, no: id }
      })
    ]
  })
);
}

render() {
      return (<ScrollView>
              <DrawerItems
              {...this.props}
              onItemPress={this.resetStack}
            </DrawerItems</ScrollView>)
    }

It properly gets navigated to the ChapterGroup Screen on Home stack but the drawer activeitem points to the Home not the second or third custom name. I think it may be because all the other screen exists inside the Rootstack. Is there anyway to manually set the second drawer item as active?

or any successful implementation of DrawerNavigator inside StackNavigator ? ie. I want to use two screens from stack navigator as drawer items. And if we navigated through to that particular screen from home screen, the corresponding drawer item should be selected.

React Native activeTintColor not getting applied on selected drawer item. My react native navigation routes looks like,

-> DrawerNavigator
   -> StackNavigator
      -> HomeScreen
      -> FirstScreen
      -> SecondScreen
      -> ThirdScreen

routes.js

const RootStack = createStackNavigator(
  {
    Home: { screen: HomeScreen },
    ChapterGroup: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen },
    Chapter: { screen: ChapterScreen },
  }

const DrawerStack = createDrawerNavigator(
  {
    Home: {
      screen: RootStack,
      params: { id: 1 }
    },
    Kural: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen, params: { id: 2 } },
    Detail: { screen: ChapterGroupScreen, params: { id: 3 } }
  }, { contentComponent: DrawerComponent}
}
export default DrawerStack;

I managed to display the First, Second, thirdScreens on the sidebar by creating a new DrawerComponent which will navigate to the appropriate stack screen on drawer item click.

DrawerComponent.js

resetStack = route => {
 let pressedDrwaerItem = route.route.key;
 let id = route.route.params.id;
 this.props.navigation.dispatch(
   StackActions.reset({
    index: 1,
    actions: [
      NavigationActions.navigate({
        routeName: "Home"
      }),
      NavigationActions.navigate({
        routeName: "ChapterGroup",
        params: { title: pressedDrwaerItem, no: id }
      })
    ]
  })
);
}

render() {
      return (<ScrollView>
              <DrawerItems
              {...this.props}
              onItemPress={this.resetStack}
            </DrawerItems</ScrollView>)
    }

It properly gets navigated to the ChapterGroup Screen on Home stack but the drawer activeitem points to the Home not the second or third custom name. I think it may be because all the other screen exists inside the Rootstack. Is there anyway to manually set the second drawer item as active?

or any successful implementation of DrawerNavigator inside StackNavigator ? ie. I want to use two screens from stack navigator as drawer items. And if we navigated through to that particular screen from home screen, the corresponding drawer item should be selected.

• javascript
• reactjs
• react-native

Share Improve this question Follow edited Feb 14, 2019 at 23:59 Avinash Raj asked Feb 12, 2019 at 3:50 Avinash RajAvinash Raj 175k3232 gold badges246246 silver badges287287 bronze badges 2

• If you try to navigate to "ChapterGroup" then the second screen won't be active. You can navigate to "Kural" and use params to differentiate between those screens is it possible for you to restructure? – Ashwin Mothilal Commented Feb 17, 2019 at 9:36
• Which react-navigator version is it? – diogenesgg Commented Feb 20, 2019 at 20:50

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Sorted by: Reset to default 4 +50

Not sure whether you have tried contentOptions or not, but this is what i have found from react-navigation document

contentOptions for DrawerItems

There are various property you can use with contentOptions

contentOptions: {
  activeTintColor: '#e91e63',
  itemsContainerStyle: {
    marginVertical: 0,
  },
  iconContainerStyle: {
    opacity: 1
  }
}

From above snippet i guess for you activeTineColor might be useful.

I'm not sure about your intentions with the resetStack function.

If you use the following function instead, it's going to work:

navigateToScreen = (route) => {
  const navigateAction = NavigationActions.navigate({
    routeName: route.route.key
  });
  this.props.navigation.dispatch(navigateAction);
}

//...
<DrawerItems
  {...this.props}
  onItemPress={this.navigateToScreen}>
</DrawerItems>

It sets the new screen without stacking it up. It sets the activeTintColor though.

I omitted the params passing to make it simple.