Switch to Bottom Tab

[salisuabubakar]

Hi, Is there a way i can click a button to switch to one of the bottom tabs ? Am working on developing a hospital app and i would like to do that for some of the buttons on the homepage. Thanks

[grahammendick]

Hi, yea, you can control the active tab.

const [tab, setTab] = useState(0);
<TabBar tab={tab} onChangeTab={setTab}>

Then you can call setTab(1), for example, to change tabs programmatically.

[grahammendick]

The best is whatever one you prefer

[salisuabubakar]

Ok. I think the prop is simpler with less code. Thanks

[salisuabubakar]

Hi, am having some challenges using both react context and the function props. Either of them freezes the app after clicking on the onnPress function. When i click on the function it works but then when i go back to the home.js and click on any button the app freezes. Can you please check. Thanks

[grahammendick]

Hey, I did a lot of work on the TabBar in the latest release. Could you update to navigation-react-native v9.50 and give it another go, please?

[salisuabubakar]

Hi, i have updated to 9.5.0 and its working smoothly. No freezing now. Thanks. I really dont know how to thank you enough. Thanks soo much.