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useNativeState

A React hook that creates observable state shared between JavaScript and native SwiftUI views.

iOS

tvOS

Included in Expo Go

useNativeState returns an ObservableState that maps to a SwiftUI ObservableObject on the native side, so reads and writes to .value are observed directly by SwiftUI without going through the React render cycle. This lets you update the native view synchronously from a worklet on the UI thread.

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

Note: Using worklets requires installing react-native-reanimated and react-native-worklets in your project. useNativeState itself works without them, but the synchronous UI-thread updates shown below depend on the worklet runtime.

The example below masks a phone number as the user types. The formatting and the writes to maskedPhone.value (text) and selection.value (cursor position) all happen synchronously on the UI thread, so there is no flicker between the typed value and the masked value.

WorkletPhoneMaskExample.tsx

import { Host, TextField, useNativeState } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';
import { keyboardType } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui/modifiers';
import { useEffectEvent } from 'react';

export default function WorkletPhoneMaskExample() {
  const maskedPhone = useNativeState('');
  const selection = useNativeState({ start: 0, end: 0 });

  const handleTextChange = useEffectEvent((v: string) => {
    'worklet';
    const digits = v.replace(/\D/g, '').slice(0, 10);
    let formatted: string;
    if (digits.length === 0) {
      formatted = '';
    } else if (digits.length <= 3) {
      formatted = digits;
    } else if (digits.length <= 6) {
      formatted = `(${digits.slice(0, 3)}) ${digits.slice(3)}`;
    } else {
      formatted = `(${digits.slice(0, 3)}) ${digits.slice(3, 6)}-${digits.slice(6)}`;
    }
    if (formatted !== v) {
      maskedPhone.value = formatted;
      // Snaps to end for demo. Real masks need smarter cursor handling.
      selection.value = { start: formatted.length, end: formatted.length };
    }
  });

  return (
    <Host matchContents>
      <TextField
        text={maskedPhone}
        selection={selection}
        placeholder="(555) 123-4567"
        modifiers={[keyboardType('phone-pad')]}
        onTextChange={handleTextChange}
      />
    </Host>
  );
}

API

import { useNativeState } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';

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