npm package: @ouroboros/react-native-picker
Description: A replacement Picker for React-Native that relies on no other packages
Author: Chris Nasr
Latest version: 0.3.1

# @ouroboros/react-native-picker
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Coming to the react-native party a bit late, I discovered that the standard Picker component no longer seems to exist, that it was removed from React-Native sometime at the end of 2021 in favour community packages which themselves started to break in 2022 due to no Picker being available. Since no alternative was presented, and I liked the look and feel of the iOS picker, I decided to attempt to recreate it using in pure react native components and offer it up to the community.

## Installation

react-native

```bash
npm install @ouroboros/react-native-picker
```

expo

```bash
expo install @ouroboros/react-native-picker
```

## Getting Started

Import Picker

```javascript
import Picker from '@ouroboros/react-native-picker';
```

Create a state variable for the picker value:

```javascript
let [picker, setPicker] = useState('CA');
```

Add the ```Picker``` to your component:

```javascript
<Picker
    onChanged={setPicker}
    options={[
        {value: 'CA', text: 'Canada'},
        {value: 'MX', text: 'Mexico'},
        {value: 'US', text: 'United States'}
    ]}
    style={{borderWidth: 1, borderColor: '#a7a7a7', borderRadius: 5, marginBottom: 5, padding: 5}}
    value={picker}
/>
```

## Custom Display

Instead of defaulting to a read-only TextInput, you can specify your own component to handle displaying the currently selected value.

```javascript
import Picker from '@ouroboros/react-native-picker';
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-native-fontawesome'
import { faCaretDown } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons/faCaretDown';
import { useState } from 'react';
import { Text, View } from 'react-native';

function PickerDisplay(props) {
    return (
        <View>
            <Text>{props.text}</Text>
            <FontAwesomeIcon icon={faCaretDown} />
        </View>
    );
}

function App() {
    let [picker, setPicker] = useState('CA');
    return (
        <View>
            <Picker
                component={PickerDisplay}
                onChanged={setPicker}
                options={[
                    {value: 'CA', text: 'Canada'},
                    {value: 'MX', text: 'Mexico'},
                    {value: 'US', text: 'United States'}
                ]}
                value={picker}
            />
        </View>
    );
}
```

## Props

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|--|--|--|--|
| component | Component | No | A React component which will be used to generate the display instead of a TextInput. Receives the `text` prop which corresponds to the text of the currently selected option. If set, `style` and `textAlign` props are ignored. |
| onChanged | Function | Yes | A callback function which receives the new value selected by the user as the only argument |
| options | Object[] | Yes | Array of Objects with the value and text properties for each option to be shown |
| style | object\|object[] | No | A single Obejct of styles values or an Array of styles objects to be passed to the input displayed in your component |
| textAlign | ['left', 'center', 'right'] | No | The alignment of the text in the input |
| value | mixed | Yes | The current value selected in the Picker |