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React Native Toggle Password Visibility

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The toggle password visibility helps for a good user experience and lets the user see and confirm what they are typing.

And in most cases, it can even completely eliminate the need for a confirm password field.

Why The Confirm Password Field is Useless

So let’s get into it.

Step 1:

Download the eye-close and eye-open icon from Flaticons here.

Step 2:

Set the toggle state for the password visibility in the constructor and write the functions

constructor(props){
super(props);
this.state = {
 hidePassword: true
}
}

//Toggle password visibility
managePasswordVisibility = () => {
    this.setState({hidePassword: !this.state.hidePassword});
  };

Step 3:

Next, import these downloaded icons to your project. Also import TextInput from React Native

<View style={[styles.container, {marginBottom: 18}]}>
                <TextInput
                  style={styles.inputFlex}
                  secureTextEntry={this.state.hidePassword}
                  autoCompleteType="password"
                  autoCapitalize="none"
                  autoCorrect={false}
                  returnKeyType="send"
                  onChangeText={(UserPassword) =>        this.setState({UserPassword})}
                />
                <TouchableOpacity
                  activeOpacity={0.8}
                  style={styles.visibilityBtn}
                  onPress={this.managePasswordVisibility}>
                  <Image
                    source={
                      this.state.hidePassword
                        ? require('../assets/images/show.png')
                        : require('../assets/images/hide.png')
                    }
                    style={styles.btnImage}
                  />
                </TouchableOpacity>
              </View>
            </View>

Step 3:

Finally, we’ll add some styling

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

container: {
flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    flexWrap: 'nowrap',
    marginTop: 10,
  },
inputFlex: {
    alignSelf: 'stretch',
    width: '100%',
    padding: 0,
    backgroundColor: '#ddd'
  },
visibilityBtn: {
    position: 'absolute',
    right: 9,
    height: 25,
    width: 25,
    padding: 0,
    marginTop: 21,
  },

})

Full Code Here:

import { Component }, React from 'react';
import { View, Text, TextInput, TouchableOpacity, Stylesheet } from 'react-native';


class App extends Component {

constructor(props){
super(props);
this.state = {
 hidePassword: true
}
}

 //Toggle password visibility
 managePasswordVisibility = () => {
    this.setState({hidePassword: !this.state.hidePassword});
  };

render(){
return(
<View style={[styles.container, {marginBottom: 18}]}>
                <TextInput
                  style={styles.inputFlex}
                  secureTextEntry={this.state.hidePassword}
                  autoCompleteType="password"
                  autoCapitalize="none"
                  autoCorrect={false}
                  returnKeyType="send"
                  onChangeText={(UserPassword) =>        this.setState({UserPassword})}
                />
                <TouchableOpacity
                  activeOpacity={0.8}
                  style={styles.visibilityBtn}
                  onPress={this.managePasswordVisibility}>
                  <Image
                    source={
                      this.state.hidePassword
                        ? require('../assets/images/show.png')
                        : require('../assets/images/hide.png')
                    }
                    style={styles.btnImage}
                  />
                </TouchableOpacity>
              </View>
            </View>

)

}

}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({

container: {
flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    flexWrap: 'nowrap',
    marginTop: 10,
  },
inputFlex: {
    alignSelf: 'stretch',
    width: '100%',
    padding: 0,
    backgroundColor: '#ddd'
  },
visibilityBtn: {
    position: 'absolute',
    right: 9,
    height: 25,
    width: 25,
    padding: 0,
    marginTop: 21,
  },

})

export default App;

Conclusion

There we have it, our React Native toggle password implementation in our software application. Feel free to modify the code to suit your own project.

Let me know what you think in the comments!

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