react-native-edge-to-edge

Effortlessly enable edge-to-edge display in React Native, allowing your Android (v6 and above) app content to flow seamlessly beneath the system bars.

Credits

This project has been built and is maintained thanks to the support from Expo.

Support

This library follows the React Native releases support policy.
It is supporting the latest version, and the two previous minor series.

Motivations

Android 15

Recently, Google introduced a significant change: apps targeting SDK 35 will have edge-to-edge display enforced by default on Android 15+. Google is likely to mandate that app updates on the Play Store target SDK 35 starting on August 31, 2025. This assumption is based on the previous years' requirements following a similar timeline.

Consistency

iOS has long used edge-to-edge displays, so adopting this design across all platforms ensures a consistent user experience. It also simplifies managing safe areas, eliminating the need for special cases specific to Android.

Immersive mode

Immersive mode allows you to hide the status and navigation bars, making it ideal for full-screen experiences. Currently, the built-in StatusBar component uses FLAG_FULLSCREEN, a flag that has been deprecated since Android 11.

Installation

$ npm i -S react-native-edge-to-edge
# --- or ---
$ yarn add react-native-edge-to-edge

Pick a parent theme

This library requires you to update the parent of your Android AppTheme to an edge-to-edge version. Don't worry, it's very easy to understand! You just need to choose a theme based on the current value:

If you currently have…	…you should use
Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge
Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material2
Theme.Material3.DayNight.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material3
Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge.Light
Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material2.Light
Theme.Material3.Light.NoActionBar	Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material3.Light

Expo

Add the library plugin in your app.json config file and create a new build 👷:

{
  "expo": {
    "plugins": [
      [
        "react-native-edge-to-edge",
        {
          "android": {
            "parentTheme": "Light",
            "enforceNavigationBarContrast": false
          }
        }
      ]
    ]
  }
}

📌 The available plugins options are:

type ParentTheme =
  | "Default" // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge`
  | "Material2" // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material2`
  | "Material3" // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material3`
  | "Light" // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge.Light`
  | "Material2.Light" // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material2.Light`
  | "Material3.Light"; // uses `Theme.EdgeToEdge.Material3.Light`

type Options = {
  android?: {
    // see the "Pick a parent theme" section
    parentTheme?: ParentTheme; // optional (default: `Default`)
    // see the "Transparent navigation bar" section
    enforceNavigationBarContrast?: boolean; // optional (default: `true`)
  };
};

Note

This library is not yet supported in the Expo Go sandbox app.

Bare React Native

Edit your android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml file to inherit from one of the provided themes:

<resources>
  <!-- update your AppTheme parent (see the "Pick a parent theme" section) -->
  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.EdgeToEdge">
    <!-- … -->
    <!-- disable the contrasting background of the navigation bar (optional) -->
    <item name="enforceNavigationBarContrast">false</item>
  </style>
</resources>

Considerations

Transparent navigation bar

By default, this library adopts Android 15 defaults: a fully transparent status bar, a fully transparent gesture navigation bar, and a semi-opaque button navigation bar. To enforce full transparency in all cases, set the enforceNavigationBarContrast option to false.
Note that by doing so, you will need to manage the navigation bar style (using SystemBars) in the same way you handle the status bar.

Keyboard management

Enabling edge-to-edge display disrupts Android keyboard management (android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"), requiring an alternative solution. While KeyboardAvoidingView is a viable option, we recommend using react-native-keyboard-controller for its enhanced capabilities.

Safe area management

Effective safe area management is essential to prevent content from being displayed behind transparent system bars. To achieve this, we highly recommend using react-native-safe-area-context, a well-known and trusted library.

Modal component quirks

Edge-to-edge support for the built-in Modal component will be available in React Native 0.77. Meanwhile, we recommend using the react-navigation modals or the expo-router modal screens.

API

<SystemBars />

A component for managing your app's system bars. Replace all occurrences of StatusBar, expo-status-bar and expo-navigation-bar with it (they uses a lot of now deprecated APIs and interfere with edge-to-edge).

import { SystemBars } from "react-native-edge-to-edge";

// "auto" is based on current color scheme (light -> dark content, dark -> light content)
type Style = "auto" | "light" | "dark";

type SystemBarsProps = {
  // set the color of the system bar content (as no effect on semi-opaque navigation bar)
  style?: Style | { statusBar?: Style; navigationBar?: Style };
  // hide system bars (the navigation bar cannot be hidden on iOS)
  hidden?: boolean | { statusBar?: boolean; navigationBar?: boolean };
};

const App = () => (
  <>
    <SystemBars style="light" />
    {/* … */}
  </>
);

SystemBars.pushStackEntry

const entry: SystemBarsEntry = SystemBars.pushStackEntry(
  props /*: SystemBarsProps */,
);

SystemBars.popStackEntry

SystemBars.popStackEntry(entry /*: SystemBarsEntry */);

SystemBars.replaceStackEntry

const entry: SystemBarsEntry = SystemBars.replaceStackEntry(
  entry /*: SystemBarsEntry */,
  props /*: SystemBarsProps */,
);

Third-party libraries 🧩

If you're an author and your package interferes with edge-to-edge, refer to the react-native-is-edge-to-edge README.md for compatibility instructions.

Troubleshooting 🤔

The system bars stays opaque

Until third-party libraries officially add support for react-native-edge-to-edge to set these options automatically, you may need to adjust them manually to prevent interference with the library.

For example, make sure to set react-native-reanimated useAnimatedKeyboard isStatusBarTranslucentAndroid and isNavigationBarTranslucentAndroid to true (until this PR is merged), or to replace all occurrences of the built-in StatusBar, expo-status-bar and expo-navigation-bar with SystemBars.

The navigation bar style is erratic

There's currently an open issue with the Android 15 emulator image regarding the navigation bar style when it is is fully transparent. This issue does not occur on physical devices.