A lightweight, highly customizable bottom tabs navigator for React Native that brings life to your navigation with smooth, fluid animations. Built on top of React Navigation, it combines elegant transitions, rich icon support, and an intuitive API to create beautiful tab bars that enhance user experience.

Perfect for apps that want to:

• Create engaging navigation experiences
• Stand out with unique tab bar designs
• Maintain native performance while adding rich animations
• Implement custom navigation patterns quickly

Powered by React Native Reanimated, it provides butter-smooth animations while maintaining 60 FPS. The library seamlessly integrates with React Navigation's ecosystem while adding a layer of motion and interactivity that makes your app feel more dynamic and responsive.

📸 How it looks

react-native-motion-tabs.mov

Features

• Pre-configured smooth animations
• Customizable styles and colors
• Built-in icon support
• TypeScript support
• Works with React Navigation

Installation

1. Install the library and its dependencies

# Core library
yarn add react-native-motion-tabs

# React Navigation
yarn add @react-navigation/native @react-navigation/bottom-tabs

# React Native dependencies
yarn add react-native-reanimated react-native-vector-icons react-native-screens react-native-safe-area-context react-native-gesture-handler

2. Babel Configuration

Update your babel.config.js:

module.exports = {
  presets: ['module:@react-native/babel-preset'],
  plugins: ['react-native-reanimated/plugin'],
};

3. Index File Setup

In your index.js or index.ts:

import 'react-native-gesture-handler';

4. Font Configuration

Create react-native.config.js in your project root:

module.exports = {
  assets: ['./node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/Fonts'],
};

5. iOS Configuration

Add the following line just before the final end clause in your Podfile:

pod 'RNVectorIcons', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons'

Placing it before the final end ensures it's part of the target configuration, integrating the vector icons with your project's build process.

Add the following block of code just before the final closing </dict> tag in your Info.plist file:

<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
  <string>AntDesign.ttf</string>
  <string>Entypo.ttf</string>
  <string>EvilIcons.ttf</string>
  <string>Feather.ttf</string>
  <string>FontAwesome.ttf</string>
  <string>FontAwesome5_Brands.ttf</string>
  <string>FontAwesome5_Regular.ttf</string>
  <string>FontAwesome5_Solid.ttf</string>
  <string>Foundation.ttf</string>
  <string>Ionicons.ttf</string>
  <string>MaterialIcons.ttf</string>
  <string>MaterialCommunityIcons.ttf</string>
  <string>SimpleLineIcons.ttf</string>
  <string>Octicons.ttf</string>
  <string>Zocial.ttf</string>
</array>

This ensures the font configurations are part of your app's main configuration dictionary, allowing iOS to properly load the vector icon fonts.

6. Android Configuration

Add these lines at the top of your android/app/build.gradle file, outside of any existing configuration blocks:

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle");
apply from: file("../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle")

project.ext.react = [
    enableHermes: true
]

Placing these at the top ensures they are processed early in the build configuration, before other build settings are applied. This guarantees that the native modules and font configurations are properly integrated into your Android build process.

7. Finalize Setup

# For iOS
cd ios
pod install
cd ..

Usage

import { View } from 'react-native';

import { createMotionTabs } from 'react-native-motion-tabs';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';

function ExampleScreen() {
  return <View style={{flex: 1}} />;
}

const Tabs = createMotionTabs({
  tabs: [
    {
      name: 'Home',
      component: ExampleScreen,
      icon: 'home',
      iconType: 'Ionicons',
    },
    {
      name: 'Search',
      component: ExampleScreen,
      icon: 'search',
      iconType: 'Ionicons',
    },
    {
      name: 'Favorites',
      component: ExampleScreen,
      icon: 'heart',
      iconType: 'Ionicons',
    },
    {
      name: 'Profile',
      component: ExampleScreen,
      icon: 'person',
      iconType: 'Ionicons',
    },
  ],
  style: {
    activeButton: '#EF7E06',
    activeText: '#FFFFFF',
    inactiveText: '#000000',
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
  },
});

export default function App() {
  return (
    <NavigationContainer>
      <Tabs />
    </NavigationContainer>
  );
}

Icon Support

We support a wide variety of icon libraries:

• Ionicons
• MaterialIcons
• MaterialCommunityIcons
• Entypo
• FontAwesome
• AntDesign
• Feather
• And many more!

📱 Explore all available icons at: React Native Vector Icons

Meowtive

To see MotionTabs in action, check out Meowtive!

Contributing

See our Contributing Guide

Support

If this library helped you, consider:

• ⭐️ Star on GitHub
• 💖 Sponsor Development
• 🐛 Report issues
• 🤝 Submit PRs

License

MIT © Filipi Rafael

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