React Navigation V5 Hide Bottom Tabs

Question

I would like to be able to hide the tabs on a screen using React Native Navigation v5.

I've been reading the documentation but it doesn't seem like they've updated this for v5 and it refers to the < v4 way of doing things.

here is my code:

import Home from './components/Home';
import SettingsScreen from './components/Settings';
import * as React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';

const SettingsStack = createStackNavigator();
const ProfileStack  = createStackNavigator();

function SettingsStackScreen() {
    return (
        <SettingsStack.Navigator>
            <SettingsStack.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsScreen} />
        </SettingsStack.Navigator>
    )
}

function ProfileStackScreen() {
    return (
        <ProfileStack.Navigator>
            <ProfileStack.Screen name="Home" component={Home} />
        </ProfileStack.Navigator>
    )
}

const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tab.Navigator>
        <Tab.Screen name="Home" component={ProfileStackScreen} />
        <Tab.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsStackScreen} />
      </Tab.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Things I have tried:

1. Accessing the options of the function and hiding that way.
2. Passing tabBarVisible as a prop to the Screen.

What I am asking for is, what is the correct way of hiding tabs on screens in React Navigation v5.

Answer 1

You will have to restructure your navigation by having your Tab Navigator nested in the Stack Navigator. Following the details here hiding-tabbar-in-screens

This way it's still also possible to have a Stack Navigator nested in yourTab Navigator. SettingsStack

With this when the user is on the Setting screen and also the Update detail screen, the tab bar is visible but on the Profile screen, the tab bar is not.

import Home from './components/Home';
import Settings from './components/Settings';
import UpdateDetails from './components/UpdateDetails';
import Profile from './components/Profile';

import * as React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';

const Stack = createStackNavigator();
const StackSettings = createStackNavigator();
const Tab = createBottomTabNavigator();

function SettingsStack() {
    return (
        <StackSettings.Navigator>
            <StackSettings.Screen name="Settings" component={Settings} />
            <StackSettings.Screen name="UpdateDetails" component={UpdateDetails} />
        </StackSettings.Navigator>
    )
}

function HomeTabs() {
  return (
    <Tab.Navigator>
      <Tab.Screen name="Home" component={Home} />
      <Tab.Screen name="Settings" component={SettingsStack} />
    </Tab.Navigator>
  );
}


export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Stack.Navigator>
        <Stack.Screen name="Home" component={HomeTabs} />
        <Stack.Screen name="Profile" component={Profile} />
      </Stack.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Answer 2

tabbarvisible-option-is-no-longer-present in react navigation v5 upwards. You can achieve the same behavior by specifying tabBarStyle: { display: 'none' } in options of the screen you want to hide bottom tab

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tab.Navigator>
        <Tab.Screen name="Home" component={ProfileStackScreen} />
        <Tab.Screen options={{tabBarStyle:{display:'none'}}} name="Settings" component={SettingsStackScreen} />
      </Tab.Navigator>
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}