Alert

Launches an alert dialog with the specified title and message.

Optionally provide a list of buttons. Tapping any button will fire the respective onPress callback and dismiss the alert. By default, the only button will be an 'OK' button.

This is an API that works both on Android and iOS and can show static alerts. Alert that prompts the user to enter some information is available on iOS only.

Example

iOS	Android

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, StyleSheet, Button, Alert } from 'react-native';

const App = () => {
  const createTwoButtonAlert = () =>
    Alert.alert('Alert Title', 'My Alert Msg', [
      {
        text: 'Cancel',
        onPress: () => console.log('Cancel Pressed'),
        style: 'cancel',
      },
      { text: 'OK', onPress: () => console.log('OK Pressed') },
    ]);

  const createThreeButtonAlert = () =>
    Alert.alert('Alert Title', 'My Alert Msg', [
      {
        text: 'Ask me later',
        onPress: () => console.log('Ask me later pressed'),
      },
      {
        text: 'Cancel',
        onPress: () => console.log('Cancel Pressed'),
        style: 'cancel',
      },
      { text: 'OK', onPress: () => console.log('OK Pressed') },
    ]);

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Button title={'2-Button Alert'} onPress={createTwoButtonAlert} />
      <Button title={'3-Button Alert'} onPress={createThreeButtonAlert} />
    </View>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'space-around',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
});

export default App;

iOS

On iOS you can specify any number of buttons. Each button can optionally specify a style, available options are represented by the AlertButtonStyle enum.

Android

On Android at most three buttons can be specified. Android has a concept of a neutral, negative and a positive button:

If you specify one button, it will be the 'positive' one (such as 'OK')
Two buttons mean 'negative', 'positive' (such as 'Cancel', 'OK')
Three buttons mean 'neutral', 'negative', 'positive' (such as 'Later', 'Cancel', 'OK')

Alerts on Android can be dismissed by tapping outside of the alert box. It is disabled by default and can be enabled by providing an optional Options parameter with the cancelable property set to true i.e.
{ cancelable: true }.

The cancel event can be handled by providing an onDismiss callback property inside the options parameter.

Example (Android)

import React from 'react';
import { View, StyleSheet, Button, Alert } from 'react-native';

const showAlert = () =>
  Alert.alert(
    'Alert Title',
    'My Alert Msg',
    [
      {
        text: 'Cancel',
        onPress: () => Alert.alert('Cancel Pressed'),
        style: 'cancel',
      },
    ],
    {
      cancelable: true,
      onDismiss: () =>
        Alert.alert('This alert was dismissed by tapping outside of the alert dialog.'),
    }
  );

const App = () => (
  <View style={styles.container}>
    <Button title="Show alert" onPress={showAlert} />
  </View>
);

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
});

export default App;

Reference

Methods

`alert()`

static alert(title, message?, buttons?, options?)

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
title (Required)	string	The dialog's title. Passing `null` or empty string will hide the title.
message	string	An optional message that appears below the dialog's title.
buttons	Buttons	An optional array containing buttons configuration.
options (Android)	Options	An optional Alert configuration for the Android.

`prompt()` (iOS)

static prompt(title, message?, callbackOrButtons?, type?, defaultValue?, keyboardType?)

Create and display a prompt to enter some text in form of Alert.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
title (Required)	string	The dialog's title.
message	string	An optional message that appears above the text input.
callbackOrButtons	function Buttons	If passed a function, it will be called with the prompt's value `(text: string) => void`, when the user taps 'OK'. If passed an array, buttons will be configured based on the array content.
type	AlertType	This configures the text input.
defaultValue	string	The default text in text input.
keyboardType	string	The keyboard type of first text field (if exists). One of TextInput keyboardTypes.

Type Definitions

AlertButtonStyle (iOS)

An iOS Alert button style.

Type
enum

Constants:

Value	Description
`'default'`	Default button style.
`'cancel'`	Cancel button style.
`'destructive'`	Destructive button style.

AlertType (iOS)

An iOS Alert type.

Type
enum

Constants:

Value	Description
`'default'`	Default alert with no inputs
`'plain-text'`	Plain text input alert
`'secure-text'`	Secure text input alert
`'login-password'`	Login and password alert

Buttons

Array of objects containing Alert buttons configuration.

Type
array of objects

Objects properties:

Name	Type	Description
text	string	Button label.
onPress	function	Callback function when button is pressed.
style (iOS)	AlertButtonStyle	Button style, on Android this property will be ignored.

Options (Android)

Type
object

Properties:

Name	Type	Description
cancelable	boolean	Defines if alert can be dismissed by tapping outside of the alert box.
onDismiss	function	Callback function fired when alert has been dismissed.