How to create a simple progress bar in react native

Hello everyone

Recently I was tasked with creating some components for a mobile app and one of the component is a progress bar, after looking at the designed component i decided to come up with a simple implementation instead of installing package to handle the progress bar for me.

you can skip the step by step implementation by checking out the sample implementation on expo

This is a picture of what I will be implementing.

Building the progress bar

Tech stack: React-native & Styled-components

Looking at the image above the progress bar contains 2 element

1. the outer container
2. a line to indicate the progress

implementing the progress-bar component

const ProgressBar = (props) =>{
  const { 
       progress, 
       height = 8, 
       outerBackgroundColor, 
       innerBackgroundColor, 
       padded = true
  } = props;

  return null;
}

Implementing the progress container:

import styled from 'styled-components/native';

<Container
    height={height}
    padded={padded}
    outerBackgroundColor={outerBackgroundColor}
   >
 {/* the line indicator goes here */}
</Container>

const Container = styled.View`
  width: "100%";
  borderRadius: 16;
  alignItems: flex-start;
  justifyContent: center;
  height: ${props => props.height};
  backgroundColor: ${props => props.outerBackgroundColor};
  paddingHorizontal: ${props => props.padded ? 3 : 0};
`;

Explanation:

The outer container is a line with a configuarable height, this will act as a container for the inner line which is the actual progress; the props passed to the container includes:

1. height: this is the height of the progress bar
2. padded: a props to show if the progress bar should be padded or not
3. outerBackgroundColor: this is the color of the progressbar container.

Implementing the progress content

import styled from 'styled-components/native';

<Content 
      height={height}
      padded={padded}
      progress={progress} 
      innerBackgroundColor={innerBackgroundColor}
/>

const Content = styled.View`
  borderRadius: 16;
  height: ${props => props.padded ? (props.height / 2) : props.height};
  backgroundColor: ${props => props.innerBackgroundColor};
  width: ${props => props.progress}%;
`;

Explanation:

The inner content is the progress indicator that takes in several props

1. height: this is the height of the progress indicator, (if the progress is padded then the displayed height is half of the height passed into the content)
2. padded: a props to show if the progress bar should be padded or not
3. progress: this is the progress width (0 - 100%)
4. innerBackgroundColor: this is the progress color.

Full Code: link

import styled from 'styled-components/native';

const ProgressBar = ({progress, height = 8, outerBackgroundColor, innerBackgroundColor, padded = true}) =>(
  <Container
    height={height}
    padded={padded}
    outerBackgroundColor={outerBackgroundColor}
   >
    <Content 
      height={height}
      padded={padded}
      progress={progress} 
      innerBackgroundColor={innerBackgroundColor}
    />
  </Container>
);

const Container = styled.View`
  width: "100%";
  borderRadius: 16;
  alignItems: flex-start;
  justifyContent: center;
  height: ${props => props.height};
  backgroundColor: ${props => props.outerBackgroundColor};
  paddingHorizontal: ${props => props.padded ? 3 : 0};
`;

const Content = styled.View`
  borderRadius: 16;
  height: ${props => props.padded ? (props.height / 2) : props.height};
  backgroundColor: ${props => props.innerBackgroundColor};
  width: ${props => props.progress}%;
`;

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