How can I automatically scale an SVG element within a React Native View?

Question

I am trying to put a react-native-svg element inside of a View such that it's rendered with a certain, fixed aspect ratio, but then scaled to be as large as possible, within the confines of the containing view.

The Svg element (from react-native-svg) seems to only accept absolute width and height attributes (I've tried using percentages, but nothing renders, and debugging confirms that percent values are NSNull by the time they get to the native view). I'm not sure how to achieve the desired effect. Here's what I've tried so far:

// I have a component defined like this:
export default class MySvgCircle extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <View style={[this.props.style, {alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center'}]} ref="containingView">
                <View style={{flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center', aspectRatio: 1.0}}>
                    <Svg.Svg width="100" height="100">
                        <Svg.Circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="blue" strokeWidth="1.0" fill="transparent" />
                        <Svg.Circle cx="50" cy="50" r="37" stroke="red" strokeWidth="6.0" fill="transparent" />
                    </Svg.Svg>
                </View>
            </View>
        );
    }
}

// And then consumed like this:
<MySvgCircle style={{height: 200, width: 200, backgroundColor: "powderblue"}}/>

And this is what I see when it renders.

I want the red and blue circles to be scaled up to fill the 200x200 area (staying circular if the containing view is rectangular and not square), without having foreknowledge of the size desired by the consumer/user of the component.

As mentioned, I tried using percentages, like this (the rest is the same):

<Svg.Svg width="100%" height="100%">

But then the SVG part doesn't draw at all. Like this:

There are no error messages, or other indications of why this doesn't work, in the console logs.

The methods for measuring UI elements after layout in RN appears to be asynchronous, which seems like a poor match to what I'm trying to do. Is there some sort of scaling or transform magic that I could use?

The desired output would look like this (obtained by hardcoding values):

And when the containing view isn't a perfect square I'd like it to work like this:

Did you tried giving value in %? – Aniruddh Agarwal Feb 03 '18 at 22:03 — Aniruddh Agarwal, Feb 03 '18 at 22:03
Yes, as I explicitly stated in the question. – ipmcc Feb 03 '18 at 22:04 — ipmcc, Feb 03 '18 at 22:04
Can I see the sample of the SVG using %age sign? – Aniruddh Agarwal Feb 03 '18 at 22:15 — Aniruddh Agarwal, Feb 03 '18 at 22:15
Did you find a solution to this problem? – Larney Jun 07 '19 at 08:07 — Larney, Jun 07 '19 at 08:07

score 50 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '19 at 23:15

Here is a component that behaves like your images:

import React from 'react';
import { View } from 'react-native';

import Svg, { Circle } from 'react-native-svg';

const WrappedSvg = () =>
  (
    <View style={{ aspectRatio: 1, backgroundColor: 'blue' }}>
      <Svg height="100%" width="100%" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
        <Circle r="50" cx="50" cy="50" fill="red" />
      </Svg>
    </View>
  );

In context:

const WrappedSvgTest = () => (
  <View>
    <View style={{
      width: '100%',
      height: 140,
      alignItems: 'center',
      backgroundColor: '#eeeeee'
    }}
    >
      <WrappedSvg />
    </View>

    {/* spacer */}
    <View style={{ height: 100 }} />

    <View style={{
      width: 120,
      height: 280,
      justifyContent: 'space-around',
      backgroundColor: '#eeeeee'
    }}
    >
      <WrappedSvg />
    </View>
  </View>
);

The trick is to wrap the SVG element in a view that preserves its aspect ratio, then set the SVG sizing to 100% width and height.

I believe there is some complex interaction between the SVG element size and the viewbox size that makes the SVG render smaller than you would expect, or in some cases not render at all. You can avoid this by keeping your <View> tags at a fixed aspect ratio and setting the <Svg> tags to 100% width and height, so the viewbox aspect ratio always matches the element ratio.

Be sure to set aspectRatio to viewbox.width / viewbox.height.

Excellent answer! I've been reading the SVG spec recently and it felt like this behavior, that is "occupying the full width while preserving the aspect ration", is missing form the `preserveAspectRatio` attribute, maybe it's by design but it's a pretty common use case. — Nader Ghanbari, Oct 17 '19 at 17:30
What if I want the parent container to resize such that the svg takes full width of the container and no more (while preserving the aspect ratio)? — Sameer Ingavale, Sep 21 '20 at 06:11

score 43 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '19 at 05:04

43

the trick in

  preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin slice"

you should do that

<Svg 
 height="100%" 
 preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin slice" 
 width="100%" 
 viewBox="0 0 100 100"
>

answered Oct 15 '19 at 05:04

Abanoub Istfanous

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered May 15 '18 at 09:30

You have to play with the width and height together with the viewBox. Usually the viewBox you have to place the original dimensions of your desired shape. And by defining the width/height based on your needs your shape will be down/up scaled properly.

Please have a look to this tutorial where this concepts have been explained pretty clear.

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-coordinate-systems/

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 30 '20 at 16:03

For my SVG, I was using those provided at https://material.io/resources/icons

What fixed it for me, was to make sure you don't mess with the viewBox or given values in the Paths (like I did) but only change the height and width to fill and then use the containers like the other answers:

<View style={{
    height: 100, display: 'flex',
}}>
    <TouchableOpacity style={{
        display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'center',
        alignItems: 'center', aspectRatio: 1,
    }}>
        <Svg fill="white" height="100%"
             width="100%" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
            <Path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/>
            <Path d="M6 19h4V5H6v14zm8-14v14h4V5h-4z"/>
        </Svg>
    </TouchableOpacity>
</View>

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 09 '22 at 12:32

i'm using react-native-svg-transformer without using react-native-svg which i found very heavy in term of size, so i can resize and change the stroke color also the fill color, but just instead of passing a fill prop, just pass color as seen below, it works perfectly

import React from 'react';
import {
  View,
  Text,
  StyleSheet,
  TouchableOpacity,
} from 'react-native';
import { StatusBar } from 'expo-status-bar';
import Logo from "../../assets/profile.svg";

function FirstScreen(props) {
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <TouchableOpacity
        onPress={() => { props.navigation.navigate('SecondScreen'); }}
      >
        <Text>Welcome</Text>
        <View style={{ aspectRatio: 1,justifyContent:"center",alignItems:"center", backgroundColor: 'blue',width:200,height:200 }}>
        <Logo color="white" stroke="black" height={50} width={50} />
        </View>
      </TouchableOpacity>
      <StatusBar style="auto" />
    </View>
  );
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});
export default FirstScreen;

the svg code

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"><title>profile</title><g fill="currentColor" class="nc-icon-wrapper"><path d="M38,37H26A19.021,19.021,0,0,0,7,56a1,1,0,0,0,.594.914C7.97,57.081,16.961,61,32,61s24.03-3.919,24.406-4.086A1,1,0,0,0,57,56,19.021,19.021,0,0,0,38,37Z"></path><path data-color="color-2" d="M32,32c8.013,0,14-8.412,14-15.933a14,14,0,1,0-28,0C18,23.588,23.987,32,32,32Z"></path></g></svg>

dependencies

  "dependencies": {
    "@expo/webpack-config": "~0.16.2",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^6.0.10",
    "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.6.2",
    "expo": "~45.0.0",
    "expo-font": "^10.1.0",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.3.0",
    "react": "17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "17.0.2",
    "react-native": "0.68.2",
    "react-native-svg-transformer": "^1.0.0",
  },

metro.config.js file to add in the root

const { getDefaultConfig } = require('expo/metro-config');

module.exports = (() => {
  const config = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);

  const { transformer, resolver } = config;

  config.transformer = {
    ...transformer,
    babelTransformerPath: require.resolve('react-native-svg-transformer'),
  };
  config.resolver = {
    ...resolver,
    assetExts: resolver.assetExts.filter((ext) => ext !== 'svg'),
    sourceExts: [...resolver.sourceExts, 'svg'],
  };

  return config;
})();

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 13 '22 at 13:46

You will need this variables

const originalWidth = 744; 
const originalHeight = 539.286; 
const aspectRatio = originalWidth / originalHeight;

Wrap your svg in a view with this properties:

<View style={{ width: '100%', aspectRatio }}></View>

or

<View style={{ width: Dimensions.get('window').width, aspectRatio }}>
</View>

Use the svg inside, with this properties:

<Svg
  width='100%'
  height='100%'
  viewBox={`0 0 ${originalWidth} ${originalHeight}`}
>

And you should be ok!

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 27 '22 at 13:16

I put this whole thing into an example Snack, maybe it helps.

SNACK: https://snack.expo.dev/@changnoi69/fbf937

When you change the marginLeft and marginRight of that view that is wrapped around the SVG-Component the SVG resizes according to it.



 <View style={{marginLeft:"20%", marginRight:"20%", backgroundColor: "pink"}}> 
    <NoInternetConnectionSVG />
    </View>

Original Stackoverflow post is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73511233/12647753

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 28 '22 at 08:55

In my case, I had to scale a SVG icon based on the device size and it was using <G> and <Path> for drawing the icon. After hours of trial and error method, I found a solution - give a dynamic scale value (based on the device size) to the inner component of Svg component. Here, the inner component is <G>

<Svg width={RfH(24)} height={RfH(24)} style={{backgroundColor: 'salmon'}}>
<G
  scale={RfH(1)} // Scaling added to the inner component
  fill="none"
  fillRule="evenodd">
  <G
    stroke={props?.isFocused ? '#302F4C' : '#8B8B88'}
    strokeLinecap="round"
    strokeLinejoin="round"
    strokeWidth={1.5}>
    <Path
      d="M9.393 2.792 3.63 7.022c-.9.7-1.63 2.19-1.63 3.32v7.41c0 2.32 1.89 4.22 4.21 4.22h11.58c2.32 0 4.21-1.9 4.21-4.21v-7.28c0-1.21-.81-2.76-1.8-3.45l-5.807-4.36c-1.4-.98-3.65-.93-5 .12Z"
      fill={props?.isFocused ? '#7BBDFF' : 'none'}
      fillRule="nonzero"
    />
    <Path fill="#FFF" d="M12 17.993v-2.924" />
  </G>
</G>

- iPad home icon with scaling

- iPad home icon without scaling

- iPhone home icon with scaling

- iPhone home icon without scaling

Rfh just converts an input value to the current device equivalent.

import {Dimensions} from 'react-native';

const STANDARD_SCREEN_DIMENSIONS = {height: 812, width: 375};

const RfH = (value) => {
      const dim = Dimensions.get('window');
      return dim.height * (value / STANDARD_SCREEN_DIMENSIONS.height);
};

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