react-navigation/docs/guides/Screen-Nav-Options.md

Screen Navigation Options

Each screen can configure several aspects about how it gets presented in parent navigators.

Two Ways to specify each option

Static configuration: Each navigation option can either be directly assigned:

class MyScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    title: 'Great',
  };
  ...

Dynamic Configuration

Or, each option can be a function that takes the following arguments, and returns the value of the option.

• navigation - the navigation prop for the screen, with the screen's route at navigation.state
• childRouter - The child router, if the screen is a navigator

class ProfileScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    title: (navigation, childRouter) => {
      return navigation.state.params.name + "'s Profile!";
    },
  };
  ...

Generic Navigation Options

The title navigation option is generic between every navigator. It is used to set the title string for a given screen.

class MyScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    title: 'Great',
  };
  ...

Unlike the other nav options which are only utilized by the navigator view, the title option can be used by the environment to update the title in the browser window or app switcher.

Default Navigation Options

It's very common to define navigationOptions on a screen, but sometimes it is useful to define navigationOptions on a navigator too.

Imagine the following scenario: Your TabNavigator represents one of the screens in the app, and is nested within a top-level StackNavigator:

StackNavigator:
  - route1: A screen
  - route2: A TabNavigator

Now, when route2 is active, you would like to hide the header. It's easy to hide the header for route1, and it should also be easy to do it for route2. This is what Default Navigation Options are for - they are simply navigationOptions set on a navigator:

TabNavigator({
  profile: ProfileScreen,
  ...
}, {
  navigationOptions: {
     header: {
       visible: false,
     },
   },
 });

Note that you can still decide to also specify the navigationOptions on the screens at the leaf level - e.g. the ProfileScreen above. The navigationOptions from the screen will be merged key-by-key with the default options coming from the navigator. Whenever both the navigator and screen define the same option (e.g. header), the screen wins. Therefore, you could make the header visible again when ProfileScreen is active.

Extending defaults: In order to extend default config with screen-specific properties instead of overriding it, you configure an option like this:

class ProfileScreen extends React.Component {
  static navigationOptions = {
    header: (navigation, defaultHeader) => ({
      ...defaultHeader,
      visible: true,
      color: 'blue',
    }),
  }
  ...
}

The 2nd argument passed to the function are the default values for the header as defined on the navigator.

Tab Navigation Options

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Stack Navigation Options

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