react native Horizontal Scroll on Button click

Question

I am a beginner at React Native. As you can see from the image that I have a Scroll View and two buttons. I have successfully implemented the scroll View which works fine but I also want to them to auto scroll on the press of a button. I have tried searching a lot but not getting anything which is working. So any help is appreciated. Please find my code below.

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { AppRegistry, StyleSheet, Text, View, Dimensions, ScrollView, Button } from 'react-native';

var screenWidth = Dimensions.get('window').width;

export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.MainContainer}>
        <View style={styles.ButtonViewContainer}>
          <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
            <Button title="Screen 1" />
          </View>
          <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
            <Button title="Screen 2" />
          </View>
        </View>
        <ScrollView
          horizontal={true}
          pagingEnabled={true}
          showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}
        >
          <View style={styles.ScrollContainer}>
            <Text style={styles.ScrollTextContainer}>
              Screen 1
              </Text>
          </View>
          <View style={styles.ScrollContainer}>
            <Text style={styles.ScrollTextContainer}>
              Screen 2
              </Text>
          </View>
        </ScrollView>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  MainContainer: {
    backgroundColor: '#abe3a8',
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center'

  },
  ScrollContainer: {
    backgroundColor: '#cdf1ec',
    flexGrow: 1,
    marginTop: 0,
    width: screenWidth,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center'
  },
  ScrollTextContainer: {
    fontSize: 20,
    padding: 15,
    color: '#000',
    textAlign: 'center'
  },
  ButtonViewContainer: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    paddingTop: 35,
  },
  ButtonContainer: {
    padding: 30,
  },
});

Answer 1

I cant gurantee this is the best approach as I havent worked alot with React Native.

Add this.scroll.scrollTo({ x: calculatedStartPositionOfTheScreen}) to your button Press handler https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/scrollview#scrollto

e.g

<View>
    ...
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 1" onPress={() => { this.scroll.scrollTo({ x: 0 }) }} />
    </View>
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 2" onPress={() => { this.scroll.scrollTo({ x: screenWidth }) }} />
    </View>
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 3" onPress={() => { this.scroll.scrollTo({ x: screenWidth * 2 }) }} />
    </View>
    ...
    <ScrollView
        horizontal={true}
        pagingEnabled={true}
        showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}
        ref={(node) => this.scroll = node}
    >
    ...
    </ScrollView>
</View >

For this use case in bigger projects you can also consider https://reactnavigation.org

Answer 2

Try this.

<View>
    ...
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 1" onPress={() => { this.refs.scroll.scrollTo({ x: 0 }) }} />
    </View>
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 2" onPress={() => { this.refs.scroll.scrollTo({ x: screenWidth }) }} />
    </View>
    <View style={styles.ButtonContainer}>
        <Button title="Screen 3" onPress={() => { this.refs.scroll.scrollTo({ x: screenWidth * 2 }) }} />
    </View>
    ...
    <ScrollView
        horizontal={true}
        pagingEnabled={true}
        showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={false}
        ref={'scroll'}
    >
    ...
    </ScrollView>
</View >