Options for screens
Each screen can configure various aspects about how it gets presented in the navigator that renders it by specifying certain options, for example, the header title in stack navigator, tab bar icon in bottom tab navigator etc. Different navigators support different set of options.
In the configuring the header bar section of the fundamentals documentation we explain the basics of how this works. Also see the screen options resolution guide to get an idea of how they work when there are multiple navigators.
There are 3 ways of specifying options for screens:
options
prop on Screen
¶
You can pass a prop named options
to the Screen
component to configure a screen, where you can specify an object with different options for that screen:
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You can also pass a function to options
. The function will receive the navigation
prop and the route
prop for that screen. This can be useful if you want to perform navigation in your options:
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screenOptions
prop on Group
¶
You can pass a prop named screenOptions
to the Group
component to configure screens inside the group, where you can specify an object with different options. The options specified in screenOptions
apply to all of the screens in the group.
Example:
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Similar to options
, you can also pass a function to screenOptions
. The function will receive the navigation
prop and the route
prop for each screen. This can be useful if you want to configure options for all the screens in one place based on the route:
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screenOptions
prop on the navigator¶
You can pass a prop named screenOptions
to the navigator component, where you can specify an object with different options. The options specified in screenOptions
apply to all of the screens in the navigator. So this is a good place to add specify options that you want to configure for the whole navigator.
Example:
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Similar to options
, you can also pass a function to screenOptions
. The function will receive the navigation
prop and the route
prop for each screen. This can be useful if you want to configure options for all the screens in one place based on the route:
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navigation.setOptions
method¶
The navigation
prop has a setOptions
method that lets you update the options for a screen from within a component. See navigation prop's docs more details.
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