How can I hide/show components by touching not button but screen on React Native?

Question

I'm learning React Native for the first time. I want to implement a function to show/hide the component by touching the screen, not a specific button.

(Please check the attached file for the example image.)

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In this code, I've tried to make a function. if I touch the screen (<View style={style.center}>, then show/hide the renderChatGroup() and renderListMessages() included in <View style={style.footer}>. The source code is below.

In my code, it works. However, the two <View> tag is not parallel. the footer view is center View's child.

I want to make them parallel. but I couldn't find the contents about controlling another <View> tag, not a child. In this code, I used setState, then I couldn't control another the below <View>.

Of course, I tried Fragment tag, but it didn't render anything.

How could I do implement this function? Please help me!

    export default class Streamer extends React.Component {
      constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
          isVisibleFooter: true,
        };
    }
    
    renderChatGroup = () => {
    const { isVisibleFooter } = this.state;
    if (isVisibleFooter) {
      return (
        <ChatInputGroup
          onPressHeart={this.onPressHeart}
          onPressSend={this.onPressSend}
          onFocus={this.onFocusChatGroup}
          onEndEditing={this.onEndEditing}
        />
      );
    }
    return null;
  };
  
  onPressVisible = () => {
    const { isVisibleFooter } = this.state;
    this.setState(() => ({ isVisibleFooter: !isVisibleFooter }));
  };

  render() {
      return (
        <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
          <SafeAreaView style={styles.contentWrapper}>
            <View style={styles.header} />
            <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={this.onPressVisible}>
              <View style={styles.center}>
                <View style={styles.footer}>
                  {this.renderChatGroup()}
                  {this.renderListMessages()}
                </View>
              </View>
            </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
          </SafeAreaView>
        </SafeAreaView>
      );
    }
  }

Answer 1

Firstly I would highly recommend you use react native with functional components and React Hooks as they alternative will soon will be deprecated.

Since onPress is not available on the View Component, you would need to replace it with TouchableWithoutFeedback as you have already done in your code.

For Showing/Hiding a view you would need to use a conditional operator.

export default class Streamer extends React.Component {
      constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
          isVisibleFooter: true,
        };
    }
    
    renderChatGroup = () => {
    const { isVisibleFooter } = this.state;
    if (isVisibleFooter) {
      return (
        <ChatInputGroup
          onPressHeart={this.onPressHeart}
          onPressSend={this.onPressSend}
          onFocus={this.onFocusChatGroup}
          onEndEditing={this.onEndEditing}
        />
      );
    }
    return null;
  };
  
  onPressVisible = () => {
    this.setState(() => ({ isVisibleFooter: !isVisibleFooter }));
    const { isVisibleFooter } = this.state;
  };

  render() {
      return (
        <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
          <SafeAreaView style={styles.contentWrapper}>
            <View style={styles.header} />
            <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={this.onPressVisible}>
              <View style={styles.center}>
                {isVisibleFooter && <View style={styles.footer}>
                  {this.renderChatGroup()}
                  {this.renderListMessages()}
                </View>}
              </View>
            </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
          </SafeAreaView>
        </SafeAreaView>
      );
    }
  }

Here you can see i have replaced

<View style={styles.footer}>
    {this.renderChatGroup()}
    {this.renderListMessages()}
</View>

with

{isFooterVisible && <View style={styles.footer}>
    {this.renderChatGroup()}
    {this.renderListMessages()}
</View>}

stating that to only display the Footer View when

const isFooterVisible = true;