Setting up a table layout in React Native

Question

I'm transitioning a React project into React Native and need help setting up a grid layout in React Native. I want to set up a 5-col by x-row (number of rows may vary) view. I've played around with the react-native-tableview-simple package, but I can't specify the span of a cell. I've also tried the react-native-flexbox-grid package, which I'm able to set up columns, but I'm still not able to set the span-width of a specific cell. I wonder if there's anything I can use.

For reference, I would like my table to look something along the lines like this:

     |Col 1|Col 2|Col 3|Col 4|Col 5|      |------------------------------ Row 1|     Text        | Yes |  No |       |------------------------------ Row 2|     Text        | Yes |  No |       |------------------------------ Row 3|     Text        |  Dropdown |  

Answer 1

You can do this without any packages. If each row is exactly the same doing the following should solve your problem;

export default class Table extends Component {     renderRow() {         return (             <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch', flexDirection: 'row' }}>                 <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch' }} /> { /* Edit these as they are your cells. You may even take parameters to display different data / react elements etc. */}                 <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch' }} />                 <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch' }} />                 <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch' }} />                 <View style={{ flex: 1, alignSelf: 'stretch' }} />             </View>         );     }      render() {         const data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];         return (             <View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>             {                 data.map((datum) => { // This will render a row for each data element.                     return this.renderRow();                 })             }             </View>         );     } }