Create-react-native-app: RTL Support

Created on 12 May 2017 · 5Comments · Source: expo/create-react-native-app

How can I enable RTL through crna/expo, the steps shown online are only for projects created with react-native standard cli. Would I have to eject to do this?

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iRoachie

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Hi @iRoachie! YMMV with this right now. You can try this out:

https://snack.expo.io/SyNfcp7l-
Open the app, tap the switch, then reload the app (using the notification drawer on Android or shake and press reload on iOS)

We haven't got around to thoroughly testing and integrating react-native I18n support into Expo/CRNA yet but it might work for your use cases as described above.

brentvatne on 13 May 2017

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Hi @iRoachie! YMMV with this right now. You can try this out:

https://snack.expo.io/SyNfcp7l-
Open the app, tap the switch, then reload the app (using the notification drawer on Android or shake and press reload on iOS)

We haven't got around to thoroughly testing and integrating react-native I18n support into Expo/CRNA yet but it might work for your use cases as described above.

brentvatne on 13 May 2017

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Thanks! This will do for now!

iRoachie on 13 May 2017

Hi there, any tricks to load the app with I18nManager.forceRTL() for a single (RTL) language app?
i can't get it to work with Expo. Maybe it's a matter of putting the forceRTL in the right lifecycle method? Thanks

eldadcaspi on 16 May 2017

@eldadcaspi - we haven't tested it a lot, like I mentioned above unfortunately it only seems to work when you reload the app after calling forceRTL

brentvatne on 31 May 2017

Any new updtes?