A set of UI components for implementing Material Design in React Native applications.
React Native Material Kit is a UI component library that brings Google's Material Design to React Native applications. It provides pre-built components like buttons, cards, sliders, and text fields that adhere to Material Design specifications, enabling developers to quickly build visually consistent and native-feeling mobile interfaces for both iOS and Android.
React Native developers who need to implement Material Design interfaces quickly and consistently across iOS and Android platforms, particularly those building production mobile apps requiring design system fidelity.
Developers choose this library for its builder pattern API that allows declarative, chainable component customization, its global theming system for consistent styling, and its focus on maintaining Material Design fidelity while providing deep customization options through props and style overrides.
Bringing Material Design to React Native
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Components strictly adhere to Google's Material Design specifications, ensuring apps maintain visual consistency with Android design guidelines, as shown in the button and card examples with predefined builders.
Offers a declarative, chainable API for constructing and customizing components, making it easy to create reusable UI elements, demonstrated in the button builder code snippets that allow method chaining like .withText() and .withOnPress().
Designed to work seamlessly on both iOS and Android within React Native, providing native-feeling interfaces that maintain design fidelity across platforms, as emphasized in the philosophy.
Includes a theming system that allows developers to customize colors and styles across all components consistently, with examples like setTheme() for modifying checkbox and radio button styles.
Lacks some Material Design components such as navigation drawers, date pickers, and snackbars, which may require integrating additional libraries for a full design system.
Installation requires detailed manual steps for both iOS and Android, especially if not using automated tools like rnpm or react-native link, as outlined in the lengthy setup instructions, which can be error-prone.
The README specifies support for React Native up to v0.61 based on badges, and has notices for older versions, suggesting potential maintenance issues or lack of updates for newer React Native releases.