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React Native Safe Area Context

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A library with a flexible API for accessing the device's safe area inset information.

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4.12.0

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This library is listed in the Expo SDK reference because it is included in Expo Go . You may use any library of your choice with development builds .

react-native-safe-area-context provides a flexible API for accessing device safe area inset information. This allows you to position your content appropriately around notches, status bars, home indicators, and other such device and operating system interface elements. It also provides a SafeAreaView component that you can use in place of View to automatically inset your views to account for safe areas.

Installation

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Terminal

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- npx expo install react-native-safe-area-context

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app , make sure to install expo in your project. Then, follow the installation instructions provided in the library's README or documentation.

API

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import { SafeAreaView, SafeAreaProvider, SafeAreaInsetsContext, useSafeAreaInsets, } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

Components

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SafeAreaView

SafeAreaView is a regular View component with the safe area edges applied as padding.

If you set your own padding on the view, it will be added to the padding from the safe area.

If you are targeting web, you must set up SafeAreaProvider as described in the Context section.

import { SafeAreaView } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function SomeComponent() { return ( <SafeAreaView> <View /> </SafeAreaView> ); }

SafeAreaView Props

edges

Optional • Type: Edge[]  • Default: ["top", "right", "bottom", "left"]

Sets the edges to apply the safe area insets to.

emulateUnlessSupported

Optional • Type: boolean • Default: true

On iOS 10+, emulate the safe area using the status bar height and home indicator sizes.

Hooks

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useSafeAreaInsets()

Hook gives you direct access to the safe area insets. This is a more advanced use-case, and might perform worse than SafeAreaView when rotating the device.

Example

import { useSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function HookComponent() { const insets = useSafeAreaInsets(); return <View style={{ paddingTop: insets.top }} />; }

Returns

EdgeInsets

Types

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Edge

String union of possible edges.

Acceptable values are: 'top', 'right', 'bottom', 'left'.

EdgeInsets

Represent the hook result.

EdgeInsets Properties

| Name | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | bottom | number | Value of bottom inset. | | left | number | Value of left inset. | | right | number | Value of right inset. | | top | number | Value of top inset. |

Guides

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Context

To use safe area context, you need to add SafeAreaProvider in your app root component.

You may need to add it in other places too, including at the root of any modals any routes when using react-native-screen.

import { SafeAreaProvider } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function App() { return <SafeAreaProvider>...</SafeAreaProvider>; }

Then, you can use useSafeAreaInsets() hook and also consumer API to access inset data:

import { SafeAreaInsetsContext } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function Component() { return ( <SafeAreaInsetsContext.Consumer> {insets => <View style={{ paddingTop: insets.top }} />} </SafeAreaInsetsContext.Consumer> ); }

Optimization

If you can, use SafeAreaView. It's implemented natively so when rotating the device, there is no delay from the asynchronous bridge.

To speed up the initial render, you can import initialWindowMetrics from this package and set as the initialMetrics prop on the provider as described in Web SSR. You cannot do this if your provider remounts, or you are using react-native-navigation.

import { SafeAreaProvider, initialWindowMetrics } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function App() { return <SafeAreaProvider initialMetrics={initialWindowMetrics}>...</SafeAreaProvider>; }

Web SSR

If you are doing server side rendering on the web, you can use initialSafeAreaInsets to inject values based on the device the user has, or simply pass zero. Otherwise, insets measurement will break rendering your page content since it is async.

Migrating from CSS

Before

In a web-only app, you would use CSS environment variables to get the size of the screen's safe area insets.

styles.css

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div { padding-top: env(safe-area-inset-top); padding-left: env(safe-area-inset-left); padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom); padding-right: env(safe-area-inset-right); }

After

Universally, the hook useSafeAreaInsets() can provide access to this information.

App.js

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import { useSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context'; function App() { const insets = useSafeAreaInsets(); return ( <View style={{ paddingTop: insets.top, paddingLeft: insets.left, paddingBottom: insets.bottom, paddingRight: insets.right, }} /> ); }