change button color react native

Question

I want to simply change the color of the button, but i can't. I tried to change directly in the button, and pass a style to it. But neither of them worked. Here's my very simple code.

 export default class Dots extends Component {   render() {     return (       <Image style={styles.container}  source={require('./background3.png')}>       <Button title='play' style = {{color:'red'}}/>       </Image>     );   } }  const styles = StyleSheet.create({   container: {     flex:1,     backgroundColor:'transparent',     resizeMode:'cover',     justifyContent:'center',     alignItems:'center',     width:null,     height:null   },    button:{   backgroundColor:'#ff5c5c',   }  });  

Answer 1

The react Button component renders the native button on each platform it uses. Because of this, it does not respond to the style prop. It has its own set of props.

The correct way to use it would have been

<Button color="#ff5c5c" title="I'm a button!" />

You can see the documentation at https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/button.html

Now, say you do want to make super customizable button, for that you'll have to use views and touchable opacity. Something along the lines of this.

<TouchableOpacity onPress={...}>   {... button markup} </TouchableOpacity> 

You'll wrap that up in your own button component and use it.

Answer 2

I think it is definitely better to use TouchableOpacity instead of Button tag as Button is creating styling discrepancies in Android and iOS platforms .

You can use the code below and it looks very similar to a button and it acts like one:

 <TouchableOpacity          style={styles.button}          onPress={this.onPress}        >          <Text> Touch Here </Text>  </TouchableOpacity>  const styles = StyleSheet.create({   button: {     alignItems: 'center',     backgroundColor: '#DDDDDD',     padding: 10   } })