Add custom icon to drawer navigation

Question

I am trying to add custom icon to my CustomDrawerComponent, but nothing happen...

App.js :

const navigationOptions = {
  headerTintColor: colors.white,
};

const drawerNavigationOption = ({ navigation }) => ({
  ...navigationOptions,
  headerLeft: (
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => navigation.toggleDrawer()}>
      <View>
        <Icon name="menu" size={24} color={colors.white} />
      </View>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  ),
});

const MapsStackNavigator = createStackNavigator({
  MapsNavigator: {
    screen: MapsScreen,
    navigationOptions: drawerNavigationOption,
  },
});

const AppDrawerNavigator = createDrawerNavigator(
  {
    Plans: MapsStackNavigator,
  },
  {
    contentComponent: CustomDrawerMenu,
    contentOptions: {
      inactiveTintColor: colors.doveGrey,
      activeTintColor: colors.doveGrey,
    },
  }
);

My CustomDrawerMenu.js :

export default class CustomDrawerMenu extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <ScrollView
        contentContainerStyle={{
          flex: 1,
          flexDirection: "column",
          justifyContent: "space-between",
        }}
      >
        <SafeAreaView forceInset={{ top: "always", horizontal: "never" }}>
          {...}
          <DrawerItems {...this.props} />
        </SafeAreaView>
        {...}
      </ScrollView>
    );
  }
}

My MapsScreen :

export default class MapsScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    drawerIcon: (
      <Image
        style={{ width: 24, height: 24 }}
        source={require("../../assets/icons/plan.png")}
      />
    ),
    title: "Plans",
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Text>My map screen</Text>
    );
  }
}

But absolutely nothing happened... I tried to add drawerIcon to my App.js > const navigationOptions but nothing happened aswell.

I do not really know where to place drawerIconm because I search on the doc, on some YouTubes video and when I reproduced the same, it does not work.

Thank you.

Answer 1

In the new version of react-navigation(5.x)

You have to do :

1-

import { createDrawerNavigator } from '@react-navigation/drawer';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import Icon from 'react-native-vector-icons/Ionicons';

2- Instead of using createDrawerNavigator you have to use Drawer.Navigator as below :

<NavigationContainer>
    <Drawer.Navigator
        initialRouteName="Products">

        <Drawer.Screen name="Products" component={YOUR COMPONENT OR YOUR STACKNAVIGATOR} options={{
            drawerIcon: config => <Icon
                size={23}
                name={Platform.OS === 'android' ? 'md-list' : 'ios-list'}></Icon>
        }} />

        <Drawer.Screen name="Orders" component={YOUR COMPONENT OR YOUR STACKNAVIGATOR} options={{
            drawerIcon: config => <Icon
                size={23}
                name={Platform.OS === 'android' ? 'md-create' : 'ios-create'}></Icon>
        }} />

    </Drawer.Navigator>
</NavigationContainer>

Answer 2

I finally found the answer myself, you can not add drawerIcon to navigationOptions of the child-screen. You have to do like so :

const AppDrawerNavigator = createDrawerNavigator(
  {
    Home: {
      screen: HomeStackNavigator,
      navigationOptions: {
        drawerIcon: (
          <Image
            style={{ width: 24, height: 24 }}
            source={require("./assets/icons/plan.png")}
          />
        ),
      },
    },

And then in your HomeStack :

const HomeStackNavigator = createStackNavigator({
  HomeNavigator: {
    screen: HomeScreen,
    navigationOptions: drawerNavigationOption,
  },
});

Hope it'll serve to someone !