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ketimaBU
ketimaBU

Reputation: 939

How to show SVG files in react-native

I want to render images from SVG files generated by illustrator, I am using react-native 0.59, react-native-svg and react-native-svg-uri, Here's my jsx:

  <View style={styles.aboutSection}>
              <SvgUri
                width="150"
                height="150"
                source={require('../../assets/images/logo_blue.svg')}
              />
    </View>

and my SVG file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 19.0.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0)  -->
<svg version="1.1" id="Calque_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
     viewBox="-574 823.3 20 14" style="enable-background:new -574 823.3 20 14;" xml:space="preserve">
<style type="text/css">
    .st0{fill:#2A327B;}
</style>
<g>
    <g transform="translate(-320.000000, -1983.000000)">
        <g transform="translate(40.000000, 1680.000000)">
            <path class="st0" d="M-284,1140.3c-7.4,0-10-7-10-7s3.4-7,10-7c6.7,0,10,7,10,7S-277.3,1140.3-284,1140.3L-284,1140.3z
                 M-284,1129.3c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4s1.8,4,4,4s4-1.8,4-4S-281.8,1129.3-284,1129.3L-284,1129.3z M-284,1135.3c-1.1,0-2-0.9-2-2
                s0.9-2,2-2s2,0.9,2,2S-282.9,1135.3-284,1135.3L-284,1135.3z"/>
        </g>
    </g>
</g>
</svg>

And is not showing when I debug, what I am missing and is there a better way to show images from SVG files? Is converting them to jsx using SVGR is a better approach or there are other ways to do so.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2830

Answers (1)

ketimaBU
ketimaBU

Reputation: 939

Since the package seems to be no more maintained, after a good time of searching around, I’ve eventually ended up with using custom web fonts with the help of react-native-icons:

  1. (Optional) Minimizing the size of SVG, I used for this purpose SVG minizer
  2. Convert fonts using icomoon
  3. Add generated font to assets/fonts folder in your root (or any other path)
  4. Add a linker in your packages.json
    "rnpm": {
        "assets": [
        "./assets/fonts/"
        ]
    }
  1. And link it using react-native link
  2. To create a custom icon component I’ve used react-native-icons, it has a createIconSetFromIcoMoon function to render font generated from IcoMoon, and also a one generated from Fontello

In my custom component MyIcon.js, I also add the selection.json generated.

import { createIconSetFromIcoMoon } from 'react-native-vector-icons';
import MyIconConfig from '../../../selection.json';

const MyIcon = createIconSetFromIcoMoon(MyIconConfig, 'MyIcon-icons', 'MyIcon-icons.ttf');
 //name of font I used in the website to generate font and name of ttf files generated
export default MyIcon;

I use it in my component, I the names of icons I've found them in demo.html:

<MyIcon
 style={styles.customStyle}
 name="previous"
 size={18}
 color=’red’
/>

Note: Make sure you use version >6.3.0 of react-native-icons, and link your assets by running:

react-native link ./assets/fonts/

Upvotes: 1

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