As you can see in our previous tutorials we have created several types of JSON flatlist and now we are creating completely dynamic custom JSON FlatList with Images and Text component in react native application. The images is uploaded on our online web hosting server and images URL(Path) along with image name is stored inside MySQL database. We are using PHP scripting language as a server language in order to convert MySQL database data into JSON format because react native supports JSON format and we should convert all the MySQL data into JSON in order to use inside react native app. So let’s get started 🙂 .
Contents in this project Create JSON FlatList with Images and Text in react native iOS Android react native app:
1. We already have define all the process of creating MySQL database, Storing images path along with their names in MySQL and converting MySQL data into JSON in our previous ListView tutorial, So read this tutorial Here before going further because we are using the same database and JSON.
Screenshot of JSON after running FlowersList.php file in web browser(Google chrome):
2. Import StyleSheet, Platform, View, ActivityIndicator, FlatList, Text, Image, Alert and YellowBox components in your project’s class.
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import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, Platform, View, ActivityIndicator, FlatList, Text, Image, Alert, YellowBox } from 'react-native'; |
3. Create constructor() in your class and make a Boolean State named as isLoading and set its default value as True. This state is used to show and hide the ActivityIndicator on data loading. We would also putting the YellowBox warning ignoring code in order to remove the Yellow box warning message of Warning componentwillmount is Deprecated.
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constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { isLoading: true } YellowBox.ignoreWarnings([ 'Warning: componentWillMount is deprecated', 'Warning: componentWillReceiveProps is deprecated', ]); } |
4. Create a function named as GetItem() with flower_name parameter, This function is called on FlatList single item click event and display us the selected flower name in Alert message.
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GetItem (flower_name) { Alert.alert(flower_name); } |
5. Create a function named as FlatListItemSeparator(), This function would render a horizontal .5 pixel line between each FlatList item.
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FlatListItemSeparator = () => { return ( <View style={{ height: .5, width: "100%", backgroundColor: "#000", }} /> ); } |
6. Creating a function named as webCall(), Inside this function we would call the JSON using fetch() web API method. We are calling the online URL and parse the fetched JSON in this function.
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webCall=()=>{ return fetch('https://reactnativecode.000webhostapp.com/FlowersList.php') .then((response) => response.json()) .then((responseJson) => { this.setState({ isLoading: false, dataSource: responseJson }, function() { // In this block you can do something with new state. }); }) .catch((error) => { console.error(error); }); } |
7. Creating componentDidMount() inbuilt function and call the above webCall() function. This function would automatically calls on app startup time so when the app stars it will parse the JSON.
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componentDidMount(){ this.webCall(); } |
8. Creating a IF conditional block with isLoading state in render’s block, So if the state value is true then it will display the ActivityIndicator and when data loading is stop or done then it will hide the ActivityIndicator.
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render() { if (this.state.isLoading) { return ( <View style={{flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center'}}> <ActivityIndicator size="large" /> </View> ); } return ( ); } |
9. Creating the FlatList component inside render’s return block to show JSON FlatList with Images and Text.
data : Setting up the dataSource state inside it.
ItemSeparatorComponent : Calling the FlatListItemSeparator() function to show separator line.
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render() { if (this.state.isLoading) { return ( <View style={{flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center'}}> <ActivityIndicator size="large" /> </View> ); } return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <FlatList data={ this.state.dataSource } ItemSeparatorComponent = {this.FlatListItemSeparator} renderItem={({item}) => <View style={{flex:1, flexDirection: 'row'}}> <Image source = {{ uri: item.flower_image_url }} style={styles.imageView} /> <Text onPress={this.GetItem.bind(this, item.flower_name)} style={styles.textView} >{item.flower_name}</Text> </View> } keyExtractor={(item, index) => index.toString()} /> </View> ); } |
10. Creating Style.
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const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer :{ justifyContent: 'center', flex:1, margin: 5, marginTop: (Platform.OS === 'ios') ? 20 : 0, }, imageView: { width: '50%', height: 100 , margin: 7, borderRadius : 7 }, textView: { width:'50%', textAlignVertical:'center', padding:10, color: '#000' } }); |
11. Complete source code for App.js File :
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import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { StyleSheet, Platform, View, ActivityIndicator, FlatList, Text, Image, Alert, YellowBox } from 'react-native'; export default class Project extends Component { constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { isLoading: true } YellowBox.ignoreWarnings([ 'Warning: componentWillMount is deprecated', 'Warning: componentWillReceiveProps is deprecated', ]); } GetItem (flower_name) { Alert.alert(flower_name); } FlatListItemSeparator = () => { return ( <View style={{ height: .5, width: "100%", backgroundColor: "#000", }} /> ); } webCall=()=>{ return fetch('https://reactnativecode.000webhostapp.com/FlowersList.php') .then((response) => response.json()) .then((responseJson) => { this.setState({ isLoading: false, dataSource: responseJson }, function() { // In this block you can do something with new state. }); }) .catch((error) => { console.error(error); }); } componentDidMount(){ this.webCall(); } render() { if (this.state.isLoading) { return ( <View style={{flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center'}}> <ActivityIndicator size="large" /> </View> ); } return ( <View style={styles.MainContainer}> <FlatList data={ this.state.dataSource } ItemSeparatorComponent = {this.FlatListItemSeparator} renderItem={({item}) => <View style={{flex:1, flexDirection: 'row'}}> <Image source = {{ uri: item.flower_image_url }} style={styles.imageView} /> <Text onPress={this.GetItem.bind(this, item.flower_name)} style={styles.textView} >{item.flower_name}</Text> </View> } keyExtractor={(item, index) => index.toString()} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ MainContainer :{ justifyContent: 'center', flex:1, margin: 5, marginTop: (Platform.OS === 'ios') ? 20 : 0, }, imageView: { width: '50%', height: 100 , margin: 7, borderRadius : 7 }, textView: { width:'50%', textAlignVertical:'center', padding:10, color: '#000' } }); |
Screenshot in Android device:
Screenshot in iOS device:
Also Read :
React Native Create FlatList using JSON Parsing Data Example Tutorial
React Native Fetch API Tutorial to Insert Into MySQL Database Using PHP iOS Android Example
React Native Insert Text Input Data To MySQL Server Android iOS Tutorial
React Native Create Picker Spinner Using Dynamic JSON MySQL Data
React Native Apply Filter on JSON ListView Data Using PHP MySQL
Can you provide a tutorial on how to send remote push notifications to desired user using mysql and php?
Sorry Shyam currently there are no proper component available in react native for push notification but when it came i will sure post tutorial regarding to your query.
Bro can you do me a favour ….
I am stuck at how to put special symbol like {, ( & etc in react native ….is there any way to do that
Manpal you need to put special symbol in Text component ?
Bro, im having a situation, when the app tries to load data says JSON Parse error: unrecognize token <
but when i test the json url, the values are correct, what am i doing wrong?
you can test the data here: http://solutiontech.eshost.com.ar/1/data/
bro send your code on our email : [email protected]
Sorry for the delay jeje, i can’t, my client strongly told me that i cannot share the code even to get help. i will give you a pic of the issue better.
bro, i curently am learning and using listview
but i found out listview is soon deprecated
should i migrate all my code to flatlist ?
Yes you should, but the deprecation will take some time so there is no need to hurry.