Getting started

$ npm install react-native-simple-shadow-view --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-simple-shadow-view

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-shadow and add RNShadow.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNShadow.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java
   • Add import com.como.RNTShadowView.ShadowViewPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
   • Add new ShadowViewPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

      include ':react-native-simple-shadow-view'
      project(':react-native-simple-shadow-view').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir,     '../node_modules/react-native-simple-shadow-view/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

      implementation project(':react-native-simple-shadow-view')
   

4. Insert the following lines inside the defaultConfig block in android/app/build.gradle:

      renderscriptTargetApi 18
      renderscriptSupportModeEnabled true
   

Usage

Set shadow parameters to the ShadowView just as you use shadows in iOS. it will appear on android same as on iOS.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ShadowView from 'react-native-simple-shadow-view'

class MyView extends Component {

    render() {
        return (
            <ShadowView
                    style={{
                        width: 100,
                        height: 100,
                        shadowColor: 'black',
                        shadowOpacity: 1,
                        shadowRadius: 20,
                        shadowOffset: { width: 0, height: 0 },
                        backgroundColor: 'rgba(0,255,0,0.5)',
                    }}
                >
                ... Texts / Views / etc ...
                </ShadowView>
            );
    }

export default MyView;