avoid-the-notch-with-safeareaview.md

Avoid The Notch With SafeAreaView

iOS devices, especially the iPhone X, have areas of the screen that are cut off in ways that present quite a challenge to developers. One of the easiest ways to deal with rounded corners and the notch when developing for iOS is to avoid them all together.

The purpose of SafeAreaView is to render content within the safe area boundaries of a device.

import { SafeAreaView, View, Text } from 'react-native';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={{ flex: 1, backgroundColor: "#e6e6e6" }}>
      <View>
        <Text>Safely rendered in the visible area of the device!</Text>
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
}

The unsafe area can be styled however you like and everything inside <SafeAreaView> will be pushed into the visible area of the screen.

h/t Dillon Hafer

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