@react-native-community/blur

A component for UIVisualEffectView's blur and vibrancy effect on iOS, and BlurView on Android.

Current Maintainers:

• Thibault Malbranche (Twitter @titozzz) from Brigad

Content

• Installation
• Usage
• VibrancyView
• Example React Native app
• Questions?

Installation

yarn add @react-native-community/blur

Install native dependencies (iOS only):

cd ios && pod install

Usage

BlurTarget (Android only)

On Android, the content you want to blur must be wrapped in a BlurTarget view, and the BlurTarget ref is passed to BlurView. BlurTarget is a no-op on iOS — it renders a plain View — so you can safely include it in cross-platform code.

Property	Notes
All View props	BlurTarget is a transparent wrapper and accepts all standard View props

BlurView

Property	Possible Values	Default	Platform
blurType	See blurType below	-	All
blurAmount	0 - 100 (The maximum blurAmount on Android is 32, so higher values will be clamped to 32)	10	All
reducedTransparencyFallbackColor	Any color	-	iOS only
blurRadius	0 - 25	Matches iOS blurAmount	Android only
downsampleFactor	0 - 25	Matches iOS blurAmount	Android only
overlayColor	Any color	Default color based on iOS blurType	Android only
blurTargetRef	React.RefObject<View>	-	Android only (required for BlurView ≥ 3.2.0)

blurType

Name	Description
xlight	extra light blur type
light	light blur type
dark	dark blur type
extraDark	extra dark blur type (tvOS only)
regular	regular blur type (iOS 10+ and tvOS only)
prominent	prominent blur type (iOS 10+ and tvOS only)

blurType (iOS 13 only)

Name	Description
chromeMaterial	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of the system chrome.
material	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of a material with normal thickness.
thickMaterial	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of a material that is thicker than normal.
chromeMaterial	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of the system chrome.
thinMaterial	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of an ultra-thin material.
ultraThinMaterial	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of an ultra-thin material.
chromeMaterialDark	A blur effect that creates the appearance of an ultra-thin material and is always dark.
materialDark	A blur effect that creates the appearance of a thin material and is always dark.
thickMaterialDark	A blur effect that creates the appearance of a material with normal thickness and is always dark.
thinMaterialDark	A blur effect that creates the appearance of a material that is thicker than normal and is always dark.
ultraThinMaterialDark	A blur effect that creates the appearance of the system chrome and is always dark.
chromeMaterialLight	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of the system chrome.
materialLight	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of a material with normal thickness.
thickMaterialLight	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of a material that is thicker than normal.
thinMaterialLight	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of a thin material.
ultraThinMaterialLight	An adaptable blur effect that creates the appearance of an ultra-thin material.

Complete usage example that works on iOS and Android:

import React, { useRef } from "react";
import { View, Image, Text, StyleSheet } from "react-native";
import { BlurView, BlurTarget } from "@react-native-community/blur";

export default function Menu() {
  const blurTargetRef = useRef(null);

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      {/*
        On Android, wrap the content to be blurred inside BlurTarget and pass
        the ref to BlurView. BlurTarget is a no-op plain View on iOS.
      */}
      <BlurTarget ref={blurTargetRef} style={styles.absolute}>
        <Image
          key={'blurryImage'}
          source={{ uri }}
          style={styles.absolute}
        />
        <Text style={styles.absolute}>Hi, I am some blurred text</Text>
      </BlurTarget>
      {/* BlurView sits on top and blurs everything inside BlurTarget */}
      <BlurView
        style={styles.absolute}
        blurType="light"
        blurAmount={10}
        reducedTransparencyFallbackColor="white"
        blurTargetRef={blurTargetRef}
      />
      <Text>I'm the non blurred text because I got rendered on top of the BlurView</Text>
    </View>
  )
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    justifyContent: "center",
    alignItems: "center"
  },
  absolute: {
    position: "absolute",
    top: 0,
    left: 0,
    bottom: 0,
    right: 0
  }
});

In this example, the Image component will be blurred because it is inside BlurTarget and the BlurView is positioned on top. The Text rendered after BlurView will stay unblurred.

Android note: BlurTarget is required on Android (BlurView ≥ 3.2.0). Without it the BlurView will render without a blur effect. BlurTarget renders as a transparent View on iOS so it is safe to use in shared cross-platform code.

If the accessibility setting Reduce Transparency is enabled the BlurView will use reducedTransparencyFallbackColor as it's background color rather than blurring. If no reducedTransparencyFallbackColor is provided, theBlurViewwill use the default fallback color (white, black, or grey depending on blurType)

VibrancyView

Uses the same properties as BlurView (blurType, blurAmount, and reducedTransparencyFallbackColor).

The vibrancy effect lets the content underneath a blurred view show through more vibrantly

VibrancyView is only supported on iOS. Also note that the VibrancyView must contain nested views

import { VibrancyView } from "@react-native-community/blur";

export default function Menu() {
  return (
    <Image source={{ uri }} style={styles.absolute}>
      <VibrancyView blurType="light" style={styles.flex}>
      <Text>Hi, I am some vibrant text.</Text>
      </VibrancyView>
    </Image>
  )
}

Example React Native App

This project includes an example React Native app, which was used to make the GIF in this README. You can run the apps by following these steps:

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-blur.git

Install dependencies

yarn

Run the app

yarn example android/ios

Questions?

Feel free to create an issue