Image resizing in React Native

Question

I am trying to resize an image (smaller to fit screen) in my react native app but am unable to do it as it is too big.

Here is the code:

'use strict';

var React = require('react-native');
var {
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  TextInput,
  View,
  TouchableHighlight,
  ActivityIndicatorIOS,
  Image,
  Component
} = React;

var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  description: {
    marginBottom: 20,
    fontSize: 18,
    textAlign: 'center',
    color: '#656565'
  },
  container: {
    padding: 30,
    marginTop: 65,
    alignItems: 'center'
  },
  flowRight: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    alignItems: 'center',
    alignSelf: 'stretch'
  },
  buttonText: {
    fontSize: 18,
    color: 'white',
    alignSelf: 'center'
  },
  button: {
    height: 36,
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    backgroundColor: '#48BBEC',
    borderColor: '#48BBEC',
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderRadius: 8,
    marginBottom: 10,
    alignSelf: 'stretch',
    justifyContent: 'center'
  },
  searchInput: {
    height: 36,
    padding: 4,
    marginRight: 5,
    flex: 4,
    fontSize: 18,
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderColor: '#48BBEC',
    borderRadius: 8,
    color: '#48BBEC'
  },
  image: {
    width: 200,
    height: 220
  },
});

class SearchPage extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>

        <Image source={require('image!rclogo')} style={styles.image}/>

        <Text style={styles.description}>
          Search for RCers!
        </Text>

        <Text style={styles.description}>
          Search
        </Text>

        <View style={styles.flowRight}>
          <TextInput
            style={styles.searchInput}
            placeholder='Search by Batch, Name, Interest...'/>
          <TouchableHighlight style={styles.button}
              underlayColor='#99d9f4'>
            <Text style={styles.buttonText}>Go</Text>
          </TouchableHighlight>
        </View>

        <TouchableHighlight style={styles.button}
            underlayColor='#99d9f4'>
          <Text style={styles.buttonText}>Location</Text>
        </TouchableHighlight>

      </View>
    );
  }
} 

I tried to take it out of the container tag but cannot seem to understand why it will not render properly?

Can this be done with flexbox resizeMode? How do you do it? I can't find any docs on it...

Answer 1

After trying some combinations, I get this working like this:

image: {
    width: null,
    resizeMode: 'contain',
    height: 220
}

Specifically in that order. I hope this can be helpful for someone. (I know that is an old question)

Answer 2

I adjust your answer a bit (shixukai)

image: {
    flex: 1,
    width: 50,
    height: 50,
    resizeMode: 'contain' }

When I set to null, the image wont show at all. I set to certain size like 50

Answer 3

This worked for me,

image: {
    width: 200,
    height:220,
    resizeMode: 'cover'
}

You can also set your resizeMode: 'contain'. I defined the style for my network images as:

<Image 
   source={{uri:rowData.banner_path}}
   style={{
     width: 80,
     height: 80,
     marginRight: 10,
     marginBottom: 12,
     marginTop: 12}}
/>

If you are using flex, use it in all the components of parent View, else it is redundant with height: 200, width: 220.

Answer 4

{ flex: 1, resizeMode: 'contain' } worked for me. I didn't need the aspectRatio

Answer 5

In my case I could not set 'width' and 'height' to null because I'm using TypeScript.

The way I fixed it was by setting them to '100%':

backgroundImage: {
    flex: 1,
    width: '100%',
    height: '100%',
    resizeMode: 'cover',        
}

Answer 6

This worked for me:

image: {
    flex: 1,
    aspectRatio: 1.5, 
    resizeMode: 'contain',

  }

aspectRatio is just width/height (my image is 45px wide x 30px high).