React-native-navigation: [V2]Unable to remove a screen from a Stack

[ArunKulasegaran]

Problem Statement

In screen navigation like A -> B -> C -> D, I need to remove the screen C from the stack so that during pop gesture it will directly go to B from D since C can be ignored during backward flow.

Please do the needful changes or let me know if this can be done with existing code.

[guyca]

https://wix.github.io/react-native-navigation/v2/#/docs/screen-api?id=poptocomponentid-mergeoptions

[ArunKulasegaran]

Hi guyca,
Pop to component ID wont work if we want to use swipe gesture in iOS.
I want to remove the screen from the stack to make it work for pop gesture also.

[dcalhoun]

@guyca I agree with @ArunKulasegaran that your provided reference to popTo is not capable of accomplishing this task. We need a way to remove a screen from the stack prior to a user attempting to navigate backwards with a gesture (e.g. swiping from the left edge of the screen on iOS).

Is there a way to proactively remove a screen from the stack? If not, can we reopen this issue as a valid feature request please?

[guyca]

Hey @dcalhoun, RNN doesn't support this use case and as of now, we have no plans on supporting such api. We used to support this behaviour on Android, but since it's not available on iOS we removed it from Android as well.

This is not part of any stack api. I think the solution here might be to use a modal when you need to branch out and dismiss (pop) to a specific screen.