[react-native] How to set background color of view transparent in React Native

This is the style of the view that i have used

backCover: {
  position: 'absolute',
  marginTop: 20,
  top: 0,
  bottom: 0,
  left: 0,
  right: 0,
}

Currently it has a white background. I can change the backgroundColor as i want like '#343434' but it accepts only max 6 hexvalue for color so I cannot give opacity on that like '#00ffffff'. I tried using opacity like this

backCover: {
  position: 'absolute',
  marginTop: 20,
  top: 0,
  bottom: 0,
  left: 0,
  right: 0,
  opacity: 0.5,
}

but it reduces visibility of view's content. So any answers?

Try to use transparent attribute value for making transparent background color.

backgroundColor: 'transparent'

Try this backgroundColor: '#00000000' it will set background color to transparent, it follows #rrggbbaa hex codes

The following works fine:

backgroundColor: 'rgba(52, 52, 52, alpha)'

You could also try:

backgroundColor: 'transparent'

Surprisingly no one told about this, which provides some !clarity:

style={{
backgroundColor: 'white',
opacity: 0.7
}}

Here is my solution to a modal that can be rendered on any screen and initialized in App.tsx

ModalComponent.tsx

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Modal, Text, TouchableHighlight, View, StyleSheet, Platform } from 'react-native';
import EventEmitter from 'events';
// I keep localization files for strings and device metrics like height and width which are used for styling 
import strings from '../../config/strings';
import metrics from '../../config/metrics';

const emitter = new EventEmitter();
export const _modalEmitter = emitter

export class ModalView extends Component {
    state: {
        modalVisible: boolean,
        text: string, 
        callbackSubmit: any, 
        callbackCancel: any,
        animation: any
    }

    constructor(props) {
        super(props)
        this.state = {
            modalVisible: false,
            text: "", 
            callbackSubmit: (() => {}), 
            callbackCancel: (() => {}),
            animation: new Animated.Value(0)
        } 
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        _modalEmitter.addListener(strings.modalOpen, (event) => {
            var state = {
                modalVisible: true,
                text: event.text, 
                callbackSubmit: event.onSubmit, 
                callbackCancel: event.onClose,
                animation: new Animated.Value(0)
            } 
            this.setState(state)
        })
        _modalEmitter.addListener(strings.modalClose, (event) => {
            var state = {
                modalVisible: false,
                text: "", 
                callbackSubmit: (() => {}), 
                callbackCancel: (() => {}),
                animation: new Animated.Value(0)
            } 
            this.setState(state)
        })
    }

    componentWillUnmount() {
        var state = {
            modalVisible: false,
            text: "", 
            callbackSubmit: (() => {}), 
            callbackCancel: (() => {})
        } 
        this.setState(state)
    }

    closeModal = () => {
        _modalEmitter.emit(strings.modalClose)
    }

    startAnimation=()=>{
        Animated.timing(this.state.animation, {
            toValue : 0.5,
            duration : 500
        }).start()
    }

    body = () => {
        const animatedOpacity ={
            opacity : this.state.animation
        }
        this.startAnimation()
        return (
            <View style={{ height: 0 }}>
                <Modal
                    animationType="fade"
                    transparent={true}
                    visible={this.state.modalVisible}>

                    // render a transparent gray background over the whole screen and animate it to fade in, touchable opacity to close modal on click out

                    <Animated.View style={[styles.modalBackground, animatedOpacity]} > 
                        <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => this.closeModal()} activeOpacity={1} style={[styles.modalBackground, {opacity: 1} ]} > 
                        </TouchableOpacity>
                    </Animated.View>

                    // render an absolutely positioned modal component over that background
                    <View style={styles.modalContent}>

                        <View key="text_container">
                            <Text>{this.state.text}?</Text>
                        </View>
                        <View key="options_container">
                            // keep in mind the content styling is very minimal for this example, you can put in your own component here or style and make it behave as you wish
                            <TouchableOpacity
                                onPress={() => {
                                    this.state.callbackSubmit();
                                }}>
                                <Text>Confirm</Text>
                            </TouchableOpacity>

                            <TouchableOpacity
                                onPress={() => {
                                    this.state.callbackCancel();
                                }}>
                                <Text>Cancel</Text>
                            </TouchableOpacity>

                        </View>
                    </View>
                </Modal>
            </View> 
        );
    }

    render() {
        return this.body()
    }
}

// to center the modal on your screen 
// top: metrics.DEVICE_HEIGHT/2 positions the top of the modal at the center of your screen
// however you wanna consider your modal's height and subtract half of that so that the 
// center of the modal is centered not the top, additionally for 'ios' taking into consideration
// the 20px top bunny ears offset hence - (Platform.OS == 'ios'? 120 : 100)
// where 100 is half of the modal's height of 200
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
    modalBackground: {
        height: '100%', 
        width: '100%', 
        backgroundColor: 'gray', 
        zIndex: -1 
    },
    modalContent: { 
        position: 'absolute', 
        alignSelf: 'center', 
        zIndex: 1, 
        top: metrics.DEVICE_HEIGHT/2 - (Platform.OS == 'ios'? 120 : 100), 
        justifyContent: 'center', 
        alignItems: 'center', 
        display: 'flex', 
        height: 200, 
        width: '80%', 
        borderRadius: 27,
        backgroundColor: 'white', 
        opacity: 1 
    },
})

App.tsx render and import

import { ModalView } from './{your_path}/ModalComponent';

render() {
    return (
        <React.Fragment>
            <StatusBar barStyle={'dark-content'} />
            <AppRouter />
            <ModalView />
        </React.Fragment>
    )
}

and to use it from any component

SomeComponent.tsx

import { _modalEmitter } from './{your_path}/ModalComponent'

// Some functions within your component

showModal(modalText, callbackOnSubmit, callbackOnClose) {
    _modalEmitter.emit(strings.modalOpen, { text: modalText, onSubmit: callbackOnSubmit.bind(this), onClose: callbackOnClose.bind(this) })
}

closeModal() {
    _modalEmitter.emit(strings.modalClose)
}

Hope I was able to help some of you, I used a very similar structure for in-app notifications

Happy coding

You should be aware of the current conflicts that exists with iOS and RGBA backgrounds.

Summary: public React Native currently exposes the iOS layer shadow properties more-or-less directly, however there are a number of problems with this:

1) Performance when using these properties is poor by default. That's because iOS calculates the shadow by getting the exact pixel mask of the view, including any tranlucent content, and all of its subviews, which is very CPU and GPU-intensive. 2) The iOS shadow properties do not match the syntax or semantics of the CSS box-shadow standard, and are unlikely to be possible to implement on Android. 3) We don't expose the layer.shadowPath property, which is crucial to getting good performance out of layer shadows.

This diff solves problem number 1) by implementing a default shadowPath that matches the view border for views with an opaque background. This improves the performance of shadows by optimizing for the common usage case. I've also reinstated background color propagation for views which have shadow props - this should help ensure that this best-case scenario occurs more often.

For views with an explicit transparent background, the shadow will continue to work as it did before ( shadowPath will be left unset, and the shadow will be derived exactly from the pixels of the view and its subviews). This is the worst-case path for performance, however, so you should avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Support for this may be disabled by default in future, or dropped altogether.

For translucent images, it is suggested that you bake the shadow into the image itself, or use another mechanism to pre-generate the shadow. For text shadows, you should use the textShadow properties, which work cross-platform and have much better performance.

Problem number 2) will be solved in a future diff, possibly by renaming the iOS shadowXXX properties to boxShadowXXX, and changing the syntax and semantics to match the CSS standards.

Problem number 3) is now mostly moot, since we generate the shadowPath automatically. In future, we may provide an iOS-specific prop to set the path explicitly if there's a demand for more precise control of the shadow.

Reviewed By: weicool

Commit: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/e4c53c28aea7e067e48f5c8c0100c7cafc031b06