react-native-navigation drawer not opening

Question

Clicking on the navbar button the drawer is not opening. Here is code i have used for button press

if (event.type === 'NavBarButtonPress') {
        if (event.id === 'sideDrawerToggle') {
            this.props.navigator.toggleDrawer({
                side: 'left',
                animated: true,
            });
        }
    }

Here is the drawer set up

Navigation.startTabBasedApp({
        tabs: [
            {
                label: 'Find Place',
                screen: 'places.FindPlace',
                title: 'Find Place', 
                icon: source[0],
                navigatorButtons: {
                    leftButtons: [
                        {
                            icon : source[2],
                            title : 'Menu',
                            id: 'sideDrawerToggle'
                        }
                    ]
                }
            },
            {
                label: 'Share Place', 
                screen: 'places.SharePlace', 
                title: 'Share Place', 
                icon: source[1],
                navigatorButtons: {
                    leftButtons: [
                        {
                            icon: source[2],
                            title: 'Menu',
                            id: 'sideDrawerToggle'
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        ],
        drawer: {
            left: { 
                screen: 'places.SideDrawer'
            }
        }
    });

And this is what my drawer looks like

    import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {View, Text, Dimensions} from 'react-native';


class SideDrawer extends Component {
    render() {
        return(
            <View style={[
                styles.container,
                {width: Dimensions.get('window').width * 0.8}
            ]}>
                <Text>Drawer</Text>
            </View>
        );
    }
}

const styles = {
    container: {
        backgroundColor : 'white',
        paddingTop: 22,
        flex: 1
    }
};


export default SideDrawer;

By searching a lot i found that giving a fixed width to drawer solves the problem. But its not solving in my case. I don't know what is wrong with the code, It was working fine.

Answer 1

You can simply use

this.props.navigation.openDrawer();

in your screen .

please check official doc and example from the following link

https://reactnavigation.org/docs/en/drawer-based-navigation.html

https://reactnavigation.org/blog/#drawer-routes-have-been-replaced-with-actions