Accessing Theme Color in React Native

Question

I'm trying to access the primary color of the theme. I have a problem doing it since the error says "Cannot read property colors of undefined"

Pls check my code below.

import React, { memo } from "react";
import { StyleSheet, Text, withTheme } from "react-native";

const Header = ({ children }) => <Text style={styles.header}>{children}</Text>;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  header: {
    fontSize: 26,
    color: withTheme.colors.primary,
  },
});

export default memo(Header);

Answer 1

you can use it like this in react-native-paper

import React, { memo } from "react";
import { StyleSheet, Text } from "react-native";
import { DefaultTheme } from 'react-native-paper';

const theme =  ({
    ...DefaultTheme,
    colors: {
        ...DefaultTheme.colors,
    }
});
const Header = ({ children }) => <Text style={styles.header}>{children}</Text>;

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  header: {
    fontSize: 26,
    color: theme.colors.primary,
  },
});

export default memo(Header);

If you already have a theme defined and want to import it here then you can use withTheme HOC like below

import React, { memo } from "react";
import { StyleSheet, Text } from "react-native";
import { withTheme } from 'react-native-paper';

const Header = ({ theme, children }) => {
    const styles = StyleSheet.create({
        header: {
            fontSize: 26,
            color: theme.colors.primary,
        },
    });
    return (
        <Text style={styles.header}>{children}</Text>
    )
}

export default memo(withTheme(Header));