Support for iOS 14 pull-down menu

[pinarol]

Introduction

Taken from iOS Human Interface Guidelines: In iOS 14 and later, a button can display a pull-down menu that lists items or actions from which people can choose. You can use a pull-down menu — or simply menu — to offer items that are directly related to the button's action or to provide a list of actions that are useful in the current context.

I was wondering if there's any interest in adding this component to React Native core, or building a React Native library for it.

Why it is needed

We wish to replace almost all the ActionSheetiOS usages with pull-down menus in our React Native App because it is more easy for users understand the relationship between the menu's items and the action they're performing. And it is a less interruptable UX for them.

Details

From iOS Human Interface Guidelines:

• It is possible to use separators to group items
• You can let people reveal a menu by performing a specific gesture on an existing button. For example, in iOS 14 and later, Safari responds to a touch and hold gesture on the tabs button
• Menus use red text to highlight actions that you identify as potentially destructive. When people choose a destructive action, the system displays an action sheet (iOS) or popover (iPadOS) in which they can confirm their choice or cancel the action.

Discussion points

• Is there a high demand?
• Is there any obstacles/restrictions to this?

[TheSavior]

This seems like something that could live as a separate module with an API similar to ActionSheet

[m4rcoperuano]

I've seen some third party packages tackle this like this package https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-popover-menu

It may not be a native solution to the platform, but the experience is the same.

[Naturalclar]

I've created https://github.com/react-native-menu/menu component which supports Native UIMenu for iOS14+, with fall backs to Actionsheet for verisions lower than iOS 14.

iOS 14

[filiptronicek]

@Naturalclar is the Expo managed workflow support on the roadmap? I really love the library, and I think it would really make the native UIMenu more accessible!

[Naturalclar]

@filiptronicek I don't have any control over expo support, but it seems like support for the ui menu component library is indeed on the roadmap 👍
https://blog.expo.io/introducing-expo-run-commands-835ae8da4813