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Badge

A Jetpack Compose Badge component for displaying status indicators and counts.

Android
Included in Expo Go

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Expo UI Badge matches the official Jetpack Compose Badge API. It renders as a small colored indicator dot, or with content such as a count number.

Material 3 badges showing count and dot indicators on icons

Installation

Terminal
npx expo install @expo/ui

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, make sure to install expo in your project.

Usage

Indicator dot

A badge with no children renders as a small dot indicator.

BadgeDot.tsx
import { Host, Badge } from '@expo/ui/jetpack-compose'; export default function BadgeDot() { return ( <Host matchContents> <Badge /> </Host> ); }

Badge with count

Pass a Text child to display a number or label.

BadgeCount.tsx
import { Host, Badge, Text } from '@expo/ui/jetpack-compose'; export default function BadgeCount() { return ( <Host matchContents> <Badge containerColor="#EF5350" contentColor="#FFFFFF"> <Text>3</Text> </Badge> </Host> ); }

API

import { Badge } from '@expo/ui/jetpack-compose';

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