I'm trying to make my own custom tab bar and it seems tabBarComponent is the way to do it by setting as my own ponent. With the below code my tab bar does not show up.

const TabNav = TabNavigator({
  LaunchScreen: {
      screen: PrimaryNav,
      navigationOptions: {
        tabBarLabel:'Find',
        tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
          <Icon name='search' size={20} color='white' />
        ),
      },
   },
}, {
  navigationOptions: {
    headerTintColor: 'grey'
  },
  tabBarComponent: FooterTabs,
  tabBarPosition: 'bottom',
  swipeEnabled:false,
  animationEnabled:false,
  lazy:true,
  tabBarOptions: {
      showIcon:true,
      showLabel:false,
      style: {
          backgroundColor: 'black'
      }
  }
});

In FooterTabs.js:

export default class FooterTabs extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text>FooterTabs Component</Text>
      </View>
    )
  }
}

What am I missing?

I'm trying to make my own custom tab bar and it seems tabBarComponent is the way to do it by setting as my own ponent. With the below code my tab bar does not show up.

const TabNav = TabNavigator({
  LaunchScreen: {
      screen: PrimaryNav,
      navigationOptions: {
        tabBarLabel:'Find',
        tabBarIcon: ({ tintColor }) => (
          <Icon name='search' size={20} color='white' />
        ),
      },
   },
}, {
  navigationOptions: {
    headerTintColor: 'grey'
  },
  tabBarComponent: FooterTabs,
  tabBarPosition: 'bottom',
  swipeEnabled:false,
  animationEnabled:false,
  lazy:true,
  tabBarOptions: {
      showIcon:true,
      showLabel:false,
      style: {
          backgroundColor: 'black'
      }
  }
});

In FooterTabs.js:

export default class FooterTabs extends Component {
  render () {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text>FooterTabs Component</Text>
      </View>
    )
  }
}

What am I missing?

• javascript
• react-native
• react-navigation
• tabnavigator

2 Answers 2

    const TabNav = TabNavigator({
      ......,
     tabBarComponent: props => (
     <FooterTabs{...props} />
     ),
     tabBarPosition: 'bottom',
     ........

    });

Try that. enclose your FooterTabs i.e <FooterTabs /> not FooterTabs

After some trial and error, the solution to my issue was to wrap my footer content in a ScrollView, then the tabs showed up as expected, though I am not sure why that is required.

I also implemented Caleb's suggestion (thanks!) of using tabBarComponent: props => <FooterTabs{...props} /> in order to pass the props which I need though was not the cause of the issue.